Press Release
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MBI bags biomass pretreatment patent
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I have been learning more about pre-treatment processing for biomass as I don’t really cover much about this area. My interview with MBI (Michigan Biotechnology Institute) made me aware of the problems concerning the use of cellulosic feedstock for biofuel…
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Europe forms bioplastics network
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The Bioplastics Organisations Network Europe (BON Europe) has been recently formed as a collaboration of national bioplastics organizations from across Europe. BON Europe was launched in summer 2015 with the mission to connect initiatives around the bioplastics industry on EU…
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Rivertop launches glucaric-based water treatment ingredients
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Rivertop Renewables, a Montana-based novel chemicals company, launched Waterline™ corrosion inhibitors and chelating agents, a new family of cost-effective, high performance and sustainable chemicals designed to be integrated with products in the water treatment industry. The new products are high…
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World’s first Bio LPG facility in 2016
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Finland-based Neste breaks ground on what it claims to be the world’s first Bio LPG facility located at Neste’s renewable product refinery in Rotterdam. The EUR 60 million facility will start production of Bio LPG in the end of 2016….
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Europe launches Forest-based Chemicals Collaboration
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I have reported in June on Tecnon OrbiChem’s Bio-Materials newsletter about this newly-launched Valchem project, which received €13.1 million funding from the European Union to demonstrate the technical and economic viability of an integrated biochemical process covering the whole chain…
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Butamax and Gevo settle isobutanol patent war
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Great news are coming out just as I am in the middle of writing my newsletter! Here’s one fresh from Gevo and Butamax Advanced Biofuels LLC, where the two companies are entering a worldwide patent cross-license and settlement agreements, ending…
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Biomass? There’s an App for that
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I am going to be very busy this week with my Bio-materials newsletter deadline but I can’t resist posting this news from Genera Energy (a bioenergy supply chain management company) about its launch of a mobile agriculture app, “Biomass”. The app…