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Spreading BIO news at APIC 2017
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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…
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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 so many interesting announcements and information that came my way and one of them is…
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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 of biomaterials. Barrier properties are important for the PET industry and may drive demand for…
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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 industry. The USA and the Middle East had enjoyed a huge advantage of low ethane…
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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 naturally as a solution to the planet’s growing resource scarcity and to sustain the future…
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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 this industry as pulp and paper chemicals companies are not that many and they are…