Conference
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Twitter Live: ICIS World Surfactants Conference – Day 1
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The surfactants market is a big potential opportunity for plant-based/biotech-based chemicals. Below are snippets of information based on several presentations at the World Surfactants conference held on 14-15 May in New Jersey, USA, organized by ICIS and co-produced by Neil…
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Sustainable plastics in designer brands
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Yes, I admit I’m a die-hard fan of designer brands (I blame my sisters for this) and I am always on the look-out for designer brands that at least use sustainable materials. Here are recent ones that I spotted: Gucci…
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Twitter Live: Plant Based Summit Day 2
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The recently-held Plant-Based Summit in Lille, France, have shown continued optimism for growth of bio-based economies worldwide despite the decline in crude oil and petrochemicals prices worldwide. Europe, it seems, is much keener than ever to delve into renewable chemicals…
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VIDEO: Toyota Fueled by Bullsh*t
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I don’t usually gush about media releases (sorry PR folks!) but I do love this one from Toyota, which was released today, I guess in honor of Earth Day. Toyota has tapped award-winning documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock to show how…
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Twitter Live: Plant Based Summit Day 1
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The recently-held Plant-Based Summit in Lille, France, have shown continued optimism for growth of bio-based economies worldwide despite the decline in crude oil and petrochemicals prices worldwide. Europe, it seems, is much keener than ever to delve into renewable chemicals…
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Dow Launches 2025 Sustainability Goals
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I received this email from the Dow Chemical Company about its new 2025 Sustainability Goals which reportedly is “designed to develop breakthrough product innovations, positively impact the lives of 1 billion people, and deliver $1 billion in cost savings or…
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New Feedstock Paradigm: Winners and Losers
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The chemical industry had adapted to crude oil prices that had been fairly stable at around $100-110/bbl since early 2011, so the rapid slide in prices in Q4 2014 and into this year has caused much heart searching in the…