Partnership

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Update in metathesis technology commercialisation

Last month, the death of Professor Robert Grubbs, a 2005 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry and instrumental in the development of metathesis catalysts, took me back all the way in 2008 during the formation of Elevance Renewable Sciences, one of the few start-up companies I’ve interviewed and started covering when I started the blog in … Continue reading »

LG Chem proceeds with sustainable materials investments

South Korea-based chemical company LG Chem has been making several news headlines within the past few months as the company announced its intention to invest KRW10 trillion ($8.5 billion) in eco-friendly and high-growth materials by 2025. Over 30 projects including M&As, joint ventures, strategic investments focused on ESG-based business portfolio are currently being reviewed according … Continue reading »

lululemon invests in renewable materials

US athletic apparel company lululemon Athletica Inc. has been very busy these past two months partnering all the way up in the company’s raw material supply chain.  The company released its first Impact Agenda in October last year with a goal to make 100% of its products from sustainable materials by 2030.  By 2025, lululemon … Continue reading »

Agile BioFoundry Selects New Biotech Collaborations

I’m always on the lookout for new companies in the renewable chemicals/materials industry and one of the ways to do this is keeping tabs on grants and funding from the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Bioenergy Technologiees Office (BETO).  The department’s Agile BioFoundry Consortium (ABF), a consortium of national laboratories dedicated to accelerating biomanufacturing and … Continue reading »

US Plastics Pact Launched 2025 Roadmap

Hello blog readers. My apologies for not posting for quite some time as I have been immersed in new administerial duties at Tecnon OrbiChem and we just released our latest Bio-Materials market commentaries. This month’s special report is about sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). We’ve also reported updates on pine chemicals and bio-based naphtha/renewable diesel. Some … Continue reading »

The Green Chemistry Teaching and Learning Community

The American Chemical Society (ACS) Green Chemistry Institute has partnered with the organization Beyond Benign to establish a new initiative ‘The Green Chemistry Teaching and Learning Community (GCTLC)‘ to support green chemistry education. For more than 20 years, educators from a wide variety of institutions, from K-12 to higher education universities and colleges, have been … Continue reading »

Calling Startups to join the Carbon-to-Value Initiative

Urban Future Lab, New Yor City’s leading cleantech incubator has partnered with Greentown Labs and Fraunhofer USA to launch ‘Carbon to Value (C2V)’ initiative, a multi-year multi-stakeholder program aiming a building the carbon tech ecosystem. Application is now open for startups to join the first C2V accelerator cohort which will run from May-November 2021. Startups … Continue reading »

Calling all startups: Enter the KAITEKI Challenge

Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Corporation (MCHC) and Greentown Labs, the largest climate tech startup incubator in North America, are now accepting applications for the KAITEKI Challenge, the latest iteration of the Greentown Launch corporate partnership accelerator program. Greentown Labs and MCHC seek novel technologies in alternative proteins, waste plastics recycling, and the prevention of food loss … Continue reading »

Bolt Threads’ Partners Introduce Mylo™ 

California-based biotechnology company, Bolt Threads announced the creation of a consortium with iconic global companies – including adidas, Kering, lululemon, and Stella McCartney – who have secured exclusive access to its innovative material, Mylo™ made from infinitely renewable mycelium – the branching underground structure of mushrooms – but looks and feels like leather. The brand … Continue reading »

Unilever to eliminate fossil fuels in cleaning products by 2030 

This is big news, especially in the surfactants market. Consumer Products Company Unilever announced this week that it will convert 100% of its fossil-based raw materials in its cleaning and laundry product formulations with renewable or recycled carbon. This move is set to transform the sustainability of the company’s global cleaning and laundry brands including … Continue reading »

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