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FTC’s revised Green Guides
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‘Tis the season to remind manufacturers to be careful about their green marketing claims. Last month, the European Bioplastics trade group launched its Environmental Communications Guide to help marketing and communications professionals to correctly present the benefits of bioplastics based…
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To Succinity and Beyond!
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I’m on a study mode now but let me post this news from BASF and CSM today about the formation of their 50-50 bio-succinic acid joint venture company called Succinity. I love the name by the way and for some…
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Solazyme plant capacity online
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Solazyme just published this You Tube video of their new 128,000-liter fermentation operation in Peoria, Illinois. The company said its algae-based oils production capacity is now online and based on my previous reports about the facility, the plant is expected…
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OPXBio acrylic acid update
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Here’s a slide presentation from OPX Biotechnologies presented at a biobased chemicals conference in San Francisco last week. The company said (in its blog) that it is now ready to scale up its 3,000 liter fermentation capacity to in the…
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European Bioeconomy: Where is it now?
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Ok, so I’m bummed out by my test score last night that I’m just going to sulk for awhile and watch videos. Actually here is a cool video (even though I don’t understand Dutch) that I retweeted from @biobasedchem about…
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Growing green auto partnerships
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The blog will be quiet on Tuesday and Wednesday as I study for my first school exam. Now I remember why I haven’t been actively looking for a job! Keeping my fingers crossed that I’ll be graduating by December. In…
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Flashback from 2005
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I was revising my profile on some of my social media platforms when I came across this presentation on Slide Share that I made in 2005 for the International Castor Oil Association (ICOA). In my presentation are some of my…