Partnership
-
Amyris ends Tate & Lyle toll deal
.
It’s payback time for taking a couple of days off from blogging and now I have to do some catching up with news. The blog has also lost its most useful web tool — the Google Reader, and I had…
-
Green Biologics demo scale-up
.
Apologies for the silence yesterday as I was (and still am) in the middle of a big project. Some of you might already know what I’m talking about. Anyway, the biobased butanol industry is teeming with capacity scale-up with Gevo…
-
Genomatica’s bio-BDO in FENC fibers
.
My apologies for this late post as I had some work-related matters to see through. Taiwan-based polyester firm Far Eastern New Century Corporation (FENC) and Genomatica announced last week at the Bioplastek conference that FENC was able to produce a high-performance…
-
Tetra Pak signs Bio-LDPE supply deal in Brazil
.
International packaging company Tetra Pak has signed a supply agreement with Braskem for its sugarcane-based low-density polyethylene (LDPE), which will be used in all Tetra Pak packages produced in Brazil. The biobased LDPE supply is scheduled to start during the…
-
Lanxess produces biobased PBT with Genomatica
.
This is the first time that the blog has heard about Germany-based specialty chemical firm Lanxess working on biobased engineering plastic polybutylene terephthalate (PBT) in partnership with US renewable chemicals company Genomatica. The companies announced today that Lanxess has produced…
-
Solazyme, Roquette part ways
.
Solazyme is having a big setback today with the announcement of the termination of their microalgae joint venture with starch derivatives company Roquette. The companies said the decision to dissolve the joint venture, Solazyme Roquette Nutritionals LLC, came from separate…
-
Verdezyne seeks Asian market for bio-adipic acid
.
My apologies for posting this a bit late but it is an interesting development from Verdezyne as the California-based bio-adipic acid developer announced its collaboration with Malaysia’s biotechnology investment agency, Malaysian Biotechnology Corporation (BiotechCorp), to assess Malaysia as the location…