Press Release
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Rivertop bags $26m funding from Cargill, First Green Partners
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Rivertop Renewables, a Montana-based producer of novel chemicals derived from natural plant sugars, has raised $26 million from Cargill, First Green Partners and existing investors. Rivertop will leverage these funds and an existing manufacturing relationship to produce market development quantities of…
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Lesaffre launches new business unit
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France-based fermentation products producer, Lesaffre, has created a new business unit called Leaf (Lesaffre Advanced Fermentation) Technologies, which will focus on the worldwide sales and market development of value-added fermentation solutions for fuel ethanol and bio-based chemical producers. The company…
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BASF and Espaço ECO® join Bonsucro
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This press release is in Brazilian Portuguese so my apologies if Google translate is not that accurate. According to the announcement, BASF Crop Protection in Brazil and Espaço ECO® Foundation (FEE®) established by BASF, have became members of Bonsucro –…
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Connell Brothers partners with Lehigh Technologies
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Connell Brothers (CBC), the largest distributor of specialty chemicals and ingredients in Asia-Pacific, has partnered with Lehigh Technologies to market Lehigh’s PolyDyne™ micronized rubber powders (MRP) to the tire and rubber industries in Japan and Korea. After initial success in…
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Global Bioenergies gets Australia patents
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Australian Intellectual Property Office has granted two patents – AU2009265373 and AU2010297362, to Global Bioenergies that protect key steps of its process for converting renewable resources into isobutene. Each of the granted patents protects one essential enzymatic reaction of the isobutene production…
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Dyadic joins EU project OPTIBIOCAT
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Biotechnology company, Dyadic International Inc. has participated in a new project, “OPTIBIOCAT Optimized esterase biocatalysts for cost-effective industrial production”, an EU-funded project aimed at developing biocatalysts for the cosmetic industry. The biocatalysts will be based on feruloyl acid esterases (“FAE”)…
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GreenCentre partners with Chemical Angel Network
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GreenCentre Canada has partnered with The Chemical Angel Network, a nation-wide angel network investing in seed and early stage chemical businesses. The chemistry component of investment targets normally falls within the general areas of measurement, manufacturing and materials. The Angel…