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Borregaard gets bio-based chems R&D grant
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Borregaard has received a pledge for a NOK 12.4 million ($2.04m) grant from Innovation Norway to be used over three years in the field of innovation projects based on products from biomass. The funds come from the Government’s package of measures for the forestry industry as well as the biorefinery programme financed by the Ministry…
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Yulex opens guayule seed & genetics center
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I’m on a tight deadline the next two weeks but will post press releases that will come my way. This one from guayule producer Yulex Corporation, which announced the opening of a Seed & Genetics Center (I’m guessing it is at its headquarters in Phoenix, Arizona) that will focused on plant breeding, molecular genetics and…
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Wilmar, Unilever pledges sustainable palm oil policies
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The palm oil industry is definitely feeling the sustainability pinch from worldwide environmental groups, investors and even from large buyers such as multinational food companies. Green Century Capital Management, a coalition of institutional investors from the US and Europe representing about $270bn in assets sent letters this month to about 40 major palm oil producers,…
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DSM demonstrates wheat straw-based ethanol production
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DSM and DONG Energy Denmark have demonstrated the combined fermentation of C6 and C5 sugars from wheat straw on a 270,000 liter industrial scale with a similar yield as obtained on a 1 liter laboratory scale using DSM’s advanced yeast. The combined fermentation results in a 40% increase in ethanol yield per ton of straw, which…
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Protected: BASF offers integrated biomass-based chemical manufacture approach
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Protected: Sweetwater Energy’s JV to Convert CO2 to Sugars
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