Company initiatives
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Aemetis Approved for NASDAQ Listing
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Aemetis, Inc., based in Cupertino, California, announced that its common stock will begin trading on Friday, June 6, 2014, on The NASDAQ Stock Market LLC under the “AMTXD” ticker symbol. After the company completes its market transition period on June…
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AkzoNobel, Solvay tracks bio-ECH in the supply chain
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AkzoNobel and Solvay have joined forces with EY (Ernst & Young) to jointly develop a monitoring system that tracks and quantifies the use of renewable raw materials in paints, coatings and other applications. The partnership builds on last year’s agreement…
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Solazyme Begins Commercial Production in Brazil
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Good news! I will be attending the American Chemical Society Green Chemistry Initiative (ACS GCI) 18th Annual Green Chemistry & Engineering Conference (whew, that’s a mouthful!), which will be held on June 17-19 in Bethesda, Maryland. This is my first…
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Gevo ships bio-PX to Toray
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Apologies for the sparse posts as I just finished this month’s Tecnon OrbiChem Bio-Materials newsletter, which was published yesterday. Here are the headlines for this month’s Bio-Materials newsletter: Ethylene/Polyethylene SABIC will produce renewable second generation PP and PE from waste fats…
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PTT-MCC signs bio-succinic acid contract with BioAmber
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I’m still trying to catch up with a lot of news that came out the past few weeks but unfortunately this week is a deadline week for me for Tecnon OrbiChem’s Bio-Materials newsletter, so I’ll make some of my postings…
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P2 Science partners with Ballestra
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Connecticut, US-based renewable chemical company, P2 Science, has partnered with global engineering company, Desmet Ballestra SpA (DBI), for the commercialization of Ballestra’s reactor technology in P2’s proprietary ozonolysis process for the production of flavor, fragrance and cosmetic ingredients using biomass…
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INVISTA to soon sell bio-based LYCRA® fiber
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INVISTA, owner of the LYCRA® brand, introduces the only commercial offering of a bio-derived spandex available globally and for use in a wide variety of apparel fabrics and garments. Spandex is also known as elastane in Europe and other parts…