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Booming University green chems research
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The blog has been seeing a lot of R&D news from various universities on how to improve green chemistry processing and these are definitely worthwhile checking out. Here’s one from the University of Florida (UF) about their research in turning…
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Cereplast seeks $50m opportunity in Italy plastic bag ban
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Bioplastic producer Cereplast put out this news yesterday about an Italian decree enforcing the legislation of a plastic bag ban effective May 27, 2013. Cereplast noted that the decree — published on March 18 in Italy’s Official Gazette — stated…
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Big biofuel news: KLM, Kior, Sapphire
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While I’m battling some sort of a bug, which hopefully will go away before my trip to the AFPM meeting this coming weekend, here are some big news from the biofuel industry coming from KLM, Kior and Sapphire Energy. Let’s…
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Video: Bio-on and its PHA story
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I rarely see news about Italian polyhydroxyalkanoic (PHA) producer Bio-on so this video in English subbing is a great source of information (it’s a 20+ minute video but very entertaining). The last news the blog reported about Bio-on was when…
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Newlight, Biomer on PHA deal
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PHA plastic developer Newlight Technologies has partnered with Germany-based biopolymer developer Biomer to expand sales of greenhouse gas-based PHA (polyhydroxyalkanoate) plastics with Newlight’s acquisition of Biomer’s intellectual property including functional modification of PHAs. Newlight said it will combine its high…
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PBIO 2013 Day 2
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Compilation of tweets and stories from the Plant Bio-Industrial Oils Workshop held in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan on May 6-7, 2013.
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PBIO Live blogging Day 1
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Coverage of the Plant Bio-Industrial Oils Workshop in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. March 6-7, 2013