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Biomaterials in adhesives and sealants
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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…
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Low cost oil environment sparks focus on performance for BioMaterials
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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…
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Twitter Live: Jefferies Industrials Conference 2015
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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:
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New Feedstock Paradigm: Winners and Losers
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The chemical industry had adapted to crude oil prices that had been fairly stable at around $100-110/bbl since early 2011, so the rapid slide in prices in Q4 2014 and into this year has caused much heart searching in the…
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Why Tetra Pak chooses renewables?
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Tetra Pak is making a case on why the company is now using renewable-based materials in some of its packaging and has recently released a new white paper examining the use of materials in packaging that can be regrown or replenished…
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Pine Chemicals GHG study now available
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It has been awhile since I last covered the tall oil market that includes crude tall oil (CTO), tall oil rosin (TOR), and tall oil fatty acid (TOFA). In my past experience, it has been difficult to get information on…
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US renewable chemicals to gain from the New US Farm Bill
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I have been working on this since February but unfortunately travel and work has further delayed me from posting this. Tecnon OrbiChem’s April Bio-Materials issue just came out yesterday and now, I have a few days of blogging before becoming…