Press Release
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Cathay to expand bio-monomers and bio-polyamides capacity
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I have finally finished this month’s Bio-Materials newsletter for Tecnon OrbiChem and we have a very comprehensive 8-page Chemical Profile this month featuring 1,5 pentanediamine and polyamides 5,6, which was written by my boss (and chairman of Tecnon OrbiChem), Charles Fryer. He’s the…
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Solvay’s Epicerol® bags RSB certification
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Solvay’s subsidiary, Advanced Biochemical Thailand Co., Ltd. (ABT) has received certification from the Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials (RSB) for the production of Epicerol®, a bio-based building block for renewable chemicals and resins. The certificate covers the manufacture of bio-based epichlorohydrin…
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Dutch Consortium invests towards sustainable chemistry
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AkzoNobel, BASF, Shell, the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Top Sector Chemistry, the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, Utrecht University, the Eindhoven University of Technology and Groningen University, have formed a consortium, known as the Advanced Research Center Chemical Building Blocks…
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Avantium, Mitsui in FDCA supply deal
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Avantium recently announced a signed agreement with Mitsui & Co. where Mitsui has been granted a right to purchase a sizeable volume of FDCA (2,5 furandicarboxylic acid) from Avantium’s planned commercial facility. Capacity, location and time lines are going to be…
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Merger is in the air
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The announced merger of Dow Chemical and DuPont has the chemical industry abuzz and it leads to the question on the future of DuPont’s industrial bioscience business, which will be under the Specialty Products business of the merged companies. The…
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Green Biologics starts bio-butanol plant construction
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It’s 4am Italy time and yes, this is as good time as any to blog before I leave back to NYC this morning. I had a great time visiting GF Biochemicals here in Caserta and will blog about it soon….
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Bio-butadiene R&D steps up
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I am about to fly to Caserta, Italy, to visit GF Biochemicals’ new levulinic acid plant, which started production in July. I will blog more about my trip later this week and will also tweet while at the site (hopefully…