Company initiatives
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Walmart launches 100% bio-based cleaners
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I have to wade through a lot of earnings reports this week so before I get caught up with my preparation for Tecnon OrbiChem’s November newsletter, and for my trip next week attending Ecochem in Switzerland, I hope to be able to…
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Ecochem conference twitter coverage
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This has been a crazy worldwide twitter month for the blog! I hope you were able to check out the blog’s twitter coverage recap of the World Bio Markets USA in San Francisco (Day 1 and Day 2). I will…
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Ecover plans for 100% bio-based materials use
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I’m here in San Francisco and excited to start the World Bio Markets USA conference. I don’t have that much time to blog for the next few days but here’s an interesting video from WBM USA webinar about Ecover’s strategies…
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Elevance advances Natchez biorefinery plans
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Following Elevance’s successful start-up of its 180 ktpa Gresik, Indonesia, facility, in 2012, the company is now proceeding with its plans to retrofit a purchased biodiesel facility in Natchez, Mississippi, into its second biorefinery with a capacity of 280 ktpa…
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NatureWorks’ next generation lactide
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NatureWorks announced the world scale availability of its new Ingeo M700, a high-purity, polymer-grade lactide rich in meso-lactide. Ingeo M700 has been designed to package and deliver performance and functionality all in one molecule. Ingeo M700 lactide can be used…
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Lanxess’ customers showcase PBT using bio-BDO
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This week is chock-full of press releases especially coming from K2013 that hopefully it will calm down next week because it is my newsletter deadline week! For this news, Genomatica has been building up the downstream applications for its bio-based…
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Emery Oleochemicals opens technical center
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Emery Oleochemicals opened its new Technical Development Centre (TDC) in Loxstedt, Germany, to serve as the company’s Global Centre of Excellence for its Green Polymer Additives business. The TDC is part of a total Investment valued at an estimated €20m (US$25m)…