Conference
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Tecnon OrbiChem APIC presentations now available
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Good news blog readers! My presentation on bio-based chemicals feedstock as well as my colleagues’ presentations on bio-based fibers and polymers are now available for download at Tecnon OrbiChem’s website. You can also download other Tecnon OrbiChem presentations for those…
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AkzoNobel, Solazyme in algal partnership
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Good morning from Taipei, home of this year’s Asia Petrochemical Industry Conference (#APIC13). My apologies for the sparse blog post as I prepare for my presentation later this afternoon about bio-based chemicals feedstock. If my boss will let me, I…
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Solvay, Bayer MaterialScience in solar flight
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I just saw this really cool video on a local news tonight about a solar power plane called “Solar Impulse” currently flying across America. The airplane prototype HIB-SIA, is the first designed to fly solely on solar power without any…
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Roquette’s Green Chemistry Symposium
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The green blog has just signed in as a media partner for Roquette University’s Green Chemistry and Fermentation Symposium, which will be held on May 22-23 at Roquette America’s Innovation Center in Geneva, Illinois. Here is the preliminary line-up for…
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Nordic wood biorefineries developments
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I saw this on one of my LinkedIn groups posted by VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, and I wanted to share this great information about the developments of wood-based biorefining in the Nordic region. This was a 432-page proceedings…
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Russia in Bio Movement
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The blog is wondering what’s the potential market for bio-based products and chemicals in Russia given that DSM and Purac just separately announced bio-based activities within the region. Dutch biobased chemicals firm Purac briefly stated that it has signed a…
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Synthetic bio success in anti-malaria drug
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The blog does not usually cover the pharmaceuticals market being that I am unfamiliar with the players and the products in this industry. However, this news coming from University of California Berkeley warrants a post as professor of chemical engineering…