Conference
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RMC2024 Day 2 Coverage
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Coverage of the Renewable Materials Conference in Siegburg, Germany. Day 2 of the Renewable Materials Conference started with presentations from Nova-Institut’s market update on its bio-based polymers report and an interesting review on algae-based polymers. I participated in this session…
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RMC2024 Day 1 Coverage
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Coverage of the Renewable Materials Conference in Siegburg, Germany. It was another awesome Renewable Materials Conference this year, thanks to the Nova-Institut GmbH team! The main sessions on Day 1 featured an overview of the chemical industry, particularly what is…
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BOLD biomanufacturing and biotech goals in the USA
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The recently-held Advanced Bioeconomy Leadership Conference (ABLC) held in Washington, DC, on 22-24 March saw the convergence of different US agencies – Department of Energy (DOE), Department of Agriculture (USDA), Department of Commerce, Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)…
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Bioplastics to enter 2023 with a strong capacity surge
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I’ve written a special report about the bioplastics industry this month based on the European Bioplastics’ recent annual conference held in Berlin and the release of their industry data which was compiled by nova Institute. This report is only available…
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Solugen in the spotlight
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Somebody asked me a month ago what information I have on the Texas, USA-based start-up firm Solugen. Unfortunately, I had very little in my archives since I started hearing about the company in early 2019 when it received $13.5 million…
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Renewable ethylene update
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Hello blog followers. I was unable to blog until now due to very tight schedules and deadlines after my two-week holiday in September. We published our October Bio-Materials report last Tuesday, and I just want to share some interesting news…
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Give bio-based products in the EU a chance
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The European Bioplastics organisation gave me a heads-up on this. interesting development about the EU’s Product Environmental Footprint (PEF) method, which can help companies calculate their environmental performance based on reliable, verifiable and comparable information, and for other actors (public…