Somebody asked me a month ago what information I have on the Texas, USA-based start-up firm Solugen. Unfortunately, I had very little in my archives since I started hearing about the company in early 2019 when it received $13.5 million in financing from investment firms Founders Fund, Fifty Years and Y combinator. The company was … Continue reading
Hello blog followers. I was unable to blog until now due to very tight schedules and deadlines after my two-week holiday in September. We published our October Bio-Materials report last Tuesday, and I just want to share some interesting news from LanzaTech that I included in the report. The company has been busy churning out … Continue reading
Unfortunately, it is getting harder for me to blog with my workload at Tecnon OrbiChem so I am happy to share this Bioeconomy post that our marketing has put up on the TOC blog site based on my presentation in April for the Pine Chemicals Association Spring Meeting. You can also download my presentation when … Continue reading
Happy Thanksgiving to our US readers! I deemed last week’s AFCC’s first conference in Washington DC as a success and I, along with my colleague from Forest2Market, had a productive workshop session focusing on forestry feedstock for biofuels and renewable chemicals. We also had a presentation from the Pine Chemicals Association about the importance of … Continue reading
Avantium held its first Technology & Markets Day titled “Path to a fossil-free world” yesterday at the company’s headquarters in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The management team provided an update on the strategy of Avantium and its technologies, including the strategy for Synvina and commercialization of PEF. Avantium announced that it intends to build a cash-flow … Continue reading
BIO’s 2018 World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology in Philadelphia, July 16-19, 2018, is less than a month away! And with the tri-state region of Delaware, New Jersey and Pennsylvania ranking as one of the top markets for biotechnology and home to many startups, you won’t want to miss out on this year’s BIO World Congress. … Continue reading
Hello from Sapporo, Japan, as I cover and gave a presentation (along with my Tecnon OrbiChem colleagues) at the Asia Petrochemical Industry Conference (APIC) being held this week. Covering bio-related matters for most of my career, I am still navigating the petrochemical industry and most of the time, it is difficult to get meetings and … Continue reading
Again (and again), sorry for the sparse blogging as between AFPM (petrochemicals event in San Antonio), my Biomaterials deadline and ASC Spring Meeting, I have barely time to catch my breath. However, just in the past two weeks, there were so many interesting announcements and information that came my way and one of them is … Continue reading
Mitsui & Co. talked about the importance of creating market pull at the Plenary session of BioWorld Congress in Industrial Biotechnology 2016 in San Diego, California last week. DuPont Industrial Biosciences also stressed the importance of performance to the success of biomaterials. Barrier properties are important for the PET industry and may drive demand for … Continue reading
The Jefferies 11th Annual Industrials Conference, which took place 10-13 August in NYC held a dedicated industrial biotech and emerging/sustainable technology companies presentations on 10 August. Here are some snippets of their presentations: