Partnership
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TOTAL opens recycled plastic bike path
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This is a very interesting and worthwhile news coverage given that I just came back from a road trip and encountered several roads and streets full of potholes. According to a recent press release from French oil company, TOTAL, the world’s first PlasticRoad bike path was recently opened in Zwolle, Overijssel in the Netherlands, which is made…
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IKEA, Neste collaborate on bio-polypropylene
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While development of fermentation-based polypropylene has mostly disappeared, several companies have long been producing polypropylene based on biomass balance approach. Neste and its partner IKEA recently announced their plan to start a pilot production of bio-based polypropylene plastic using renewable raw materials such as used cooking oil or vegetable oils. Neste’s green diesel biorefinery also…
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VIDEO: UPM Biofuels enters the bioplastics market with new partners
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Renewable diesel producers such as UPM and Neste are now in the bioplastic arena as more and more of their bio-naphtha is being used as feedstock to produce biomass balanced-based monomers such as ethylene and propylene. (For more on biomass balance, check out my last blog post: VIDEO: BASF’s new biomass-balance paints for automotive ) UPM’s…
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Braskem, Topsoe to build a demo bio-MEG plant
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Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate here in the USA! I still have more ‘catching up’ posts and this one has already been announced back in July during the BIO World Congress but I guess the press statement (delivered by our friends from Sustainability Consult) just made it official. Braskem has signed a partnership with…
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AkzoNobel, Fibria pulp partnership
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AkzoNobel’s Specialty Chemicals business has completed the expansion of a Chemical Island in Brazil to support a major project for Brazilian forestry company Fibria. The world’s leading producer of eucalyptus pulp from planted forests, Fibria has invested $2.2 billion to more than double pulp capacity at its mill in Três Lagoas to 3.25 million tons…
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Bio-on, Kering Eyewear partners on PHA materials
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Italy-based developer (and soon to be producer) of polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) plastics recently announced its partnership with Kering Eyewear, part of the Kering Group, a global luxury group that develops an ensemble of luxury houses in fashion, leather goods, jewelry and watches. Some of Kering Eyewear’s portfolio of brands include Gucci, Cartier, Bottega Veneta, Saint Laurent,…
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NatureWorks launches Performance Chemicals Division
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While NatureWorks has already been working on this new business model of launching lactides-based performance chemicals a year back, the company finally made it official with a new division and product line called Vercet™, which aims to supply lactides, polyols, binder resins and chemical intermediates to companies that manufacture innovative coatings, adhesives, sealants and elastomers…