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VIDEO: Polyester Market Overview
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So I have been slightly immersing myself in the petrochemicals market here at the American Fuels and Petrochemicals Manufacturers (AFPM)’ International Petrochemicals Conference (IPC), and with the help of my Tecnon OrbiChem colleagues, I’ve been hearing the water bottle market…
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Twitter: INFOCAST Bio-Based Summit 2016
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EPA Calls for the 21st Presidential Green Chemistry Award Nominations
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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is now accepting entries for nominations for its 2016 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Awards for companies or institutions that have developed a process or product that better protects public health and the environment. Since the start…
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Global bioplastics capacities to grow despite low oil price
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The European Bioplastics‘ annual market data update, compiled in cooperation with the research institutes IfBB – Institute for Bioplastics and Biocomposites (University of Applied Sciences and Arts Hannover, Germany) and nova Institute (Hürth, Germany), reported continued increase in global bioplastics…
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Twitter Live: ICIS World Oleochemicals Conference 2015
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The Green Chemicals Blog is a media partner for the 10th ICIS World Oleochemicals Conference that took place on 22-23 October 2015 in Dubrovnik, Croatia. This conference covered the latest updates on the global oleochemicals market in terms of supply/demand fundamentals,…
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Solvay bags award for bio-ECH
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The green blogger is in the middle of the Bio-Materials newsletter deadline so posting will be scarce or very brief. This one is from Solvay who won this year’s JEC Asia 2015 Innovation Award for its bio-based ECH in producing…
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Kraton Performance Polymers acquires Arizona Chemical
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Another recent oleochemical-related news is the acquisition of pine chemicals producer, Arizona Chemical, by Kraton Performance Polymers, a global producer of highly-engineered polymers. Kraton has acquired all of the capital stock of privately-held Arizona Chemical for a cash purchase price…