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Biofuel, Bioplastic, Biorefinery, Clean technology, Energy, Environment, Government, Investments, Press Release, Processing, R&D, Recycle, Regulation, studies and reportsThe European Green Deal Roadmap
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The European Commission recently announced The European Green Deal – a roadmap for making the EU’s economy sustainable by turning climate and environmental challenges into opportunities across all policy areas and making the transition just and inclusive for all. The European Green Deal provides a roadmap with actions to boost the efficient use of resources…
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IFF acquires DuPont’s Nutrition and Biosciences business
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International Flavors and Fragrances (IFF) announced yesterday its acquisition of DuPont’s Nutrition and Biosciences (N&B) business in a Reverse Morris Trust Transaction*. The deal values the combined company at $45.4 billion on an enterprise value basis, reflecting a value of $26.2 billion for the N&B business based on IFF’s share price as of 13 December…
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Stora Enso enters the FDCA market
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The market for furandicarboxylic acid (FDCA) is getting more traction with new players entering this space. Stora Enso announced on December 10 that it is investing EUR 9 million to build a pilot facility to focus on developing a cost-competitive process for manufacturing FDCA from sugars. FDCA is a key component of the bio-based barrier…
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Successful start-up for manure-to-fuel facility
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Iogen Corporation noted the successful opening and operation of Threemile Canyon Farms’ and Equilibriums’ only dairy manure renewable natural gas production facility located in Boardman, Oregon – one of the largest in the US. The facility uses the manure from 33,000 dairy cows to feed an anaerobic digester system followed by a biogas clean-up system…
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Air Protein Introduces the World’s First Air-Based Food
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Happy Thanksgiving to our US readers! I am sure many of you are eagerly waiting for a get-together (and eat!) with friends and family tonight. Speaking of food, some of you might already have heard about various plant-derived meat varieties that finally taste like real meat, and are now available in the consumer world such…
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Manus Bio starts fermentation facility
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Manus Bio’s first biotech manufacturing facility in Augusta, Georgia – a 44-acre fermentation and ingredient processing plant – is ready to start producing ingredients for flavors and fragrances, sweeteners, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, and agricultural chemicals, as the company updated the former NutraSweet artificial sweetener plant, which had been idled since 2015. So far, the Company has…
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NEW OLEOCHEMICALS SERVICE FROM TECNON ORBICHEM
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Since 2013, Tecnon OrbiChem has been providing information on bio-based chemicals including oleochemicals in our monthly Bio-Materials Chemical Business Focus. We have both expanded and focussed our oleochemicals coverage to create a new Oleochemicals Including Surfactants, Biofuels and Glycerol-derived Intermediates Chemical Business Focus monthly report. The content and format of this new service is based…