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Twitter Live: INFOCAST Sustainable Chemicals Summit
Held in San Diego, California, the INFOCAST Sustainable Chemicals & Plastics Adoption & Applications Summit brought together consumer brand, OEM, retail decision makers, venture capitalists, financiers, corporate strategics, chemical majors, specialty, bio-based and sustainable chemical companies to provide a detailed overview of the challenges they face in ramping up the adoption of sustainable chemicals and … Continue reading
Twitter Live: Jefferies Industrials Conference 2015
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:
Updates on Top Value Added Chemicals from Biomass
The July Bio-materials newsletter and other deadlines that I have for Tecnon OrbiChem is done, so now I can get back to blogging. I do hope readers were able to see some of the compiled tweets that I posted from the recently-held BIO World Congress in Montreal. This Monday, I will be tweeting a bit on Jefferies’ Industrial … Continue reading
Twitter Live: BIO World Congress Day 3
The BIO World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology is considered the world’s largest international industrial biotech event with this year’s more than 1,200 attendees representing 725 companies from 50 different countries. Here are some snippets tweeted from the event.
Twitter Live: BIO World Congress Day 2
The BIO World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology is considered the world’s largest international industrial biotech event with this year’s more than 1,200 attendees representing 725 companies from 50 different countries. Here are some snippets tweeted from the event.
Twitter Live: BIO World Congress Day 1
The BIO World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology is considered the world’s largest international industrial biotech event with this year’s more than 1,200 attendees representing 725 companies from 50 different countries. Here are some snippets tweeted from the event.
BIO announcements galore
Attending BIO World Congress is, as usual, a whirlwind of meetings and presentations galore. There were several big announcements that came out yesterday and here are some of them. For more news at BIO, follow #BIOWC15 on twitter. Cargill and Genomatica Partnership – the companies announced their collaboration to accelerate production of renewable chemicals for … Continue reading
VIDEO: Spot the blogger
Hello blog readers! My apologies for the very much sparse posting as I just came back from a 1.5 weeks of working on the June Tecnon OrbiChem Bio-Materials newsletter, and then a short but sweet holiday vacation after. I’ll posting some news that came in last month soon but in the meantime, can you spot … Continue reading
Special Report: Bioplastics and additives becoming mainstream
I have begun to write special reports on Tecnon OrbiChem’s monthly Bio-Materials newsletter this year, and this is a sample that was written for the April issue. I’m thinking of doing a bio-based lubricants special for June as this space is seeing so many new bio-based alternatives to synthetics. Unfortunately, I cannot promise that I … Continue reading
Sustainable plastics in designer brands
Yes, I admit I’m a die-hard fan of designer brands (I blame my sisters for this) and I am always on the look-out for designer brands that at least use sustainable materials. Here are recent ones that I spotted: Gucci Bio-plastic Iphone 5 Case (also in grey). Made in Italy. Now on sale for $59! … Continue reading