Conference
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WBM USA 2014 – Day 1
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Twitter coverage of the World Bio Markets USA 2014 Conference held in Diego on October 28-29
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Twitter Coverage: ICIS Pan American Oleochemicals 2014
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[DGreenblogger/icis-pan-american-oleochemicals-conference” target=”_blank”>View the story “ICIS Pan American Oleochemicals Conference 2014” on Storify]
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Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Winners
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This year’s Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Winners awarded by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) included Solazyme and Amyris. Solazyme won the 2014 Greener Synthetic Pathways Award for its microalgal fermentation-based tailored oils. Solazyme’s engineered microalgae can produce oils tailored to customers’ needs that can mimic or enhance properties of traditional vegetable oils (or animal…
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AkzoNobel in cyanobacteria-based chems
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AkzoNobel has partnered with cleantech company Photanol to develop a process via Photanol’s modified cyanobacteria technology that uses light to directly convert CO2 into chemicals. The aim is to produce “green” chemical building blocks that will eventually replace raw materials AkzoNobel currently obtains from fossil-based production. AkzoNobel’s chemicals are used extensively by the chemicals, detergent,…
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P&G to use DuPont’s cellulosic ethanol in Tide
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I don’t know much about liquid detergent formulation other than detergent is largely composed of surfactants so I am surprised that it also uses ethanol (or also called ethyl alcohol) as a solvent. Procter & Gamble said ethanol has long been a key ingredient in the Tide® formulation, allowing for stability of the detergent formula and…
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1st ICIS Pan American Oleochemicals Conference
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Everybody who has been following me since my 12-year stint in ICIS knows that I always have this love/frustrated relationship with the oleochemicals market. Frustrated because it is a very difficult market to understand with so many feedstock, products, co-products, by-products, downstream derivatives, etc., that you need to understand and comprehend. I did a presentation…
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Roquette Green Chemistry & Fermentation Symposium 2014
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