Green Chemicals Blog
News Roundup
Fundings 1Q 2015
Several news just came in yesterday and the blog is still catching up from interviews made the past 4-5 weeks. I am hoping to soon post articles about the starch market, the world of enzymes, biotech-based surfactants, updates on levulinic acid developments, PHA and other recently-announced press releases. Some of them I’ve already written in … Continue reading
Company Movements News
Hope you’re enjoying the start of your weekend. We are expecting another snowstorm coming into New York this Saturday and I can’t wait to have a brief respite from the wintry weather next week when I fly to Florida to attend the American Cleaning Institute (ACI) Convention. In the meantime, let me posts some recent … Continue reading
Expanding cellulosic ethanol production worldwide
It felt like everybody was in a group hug when I attended a biofuel panel discussion at the recently-held World Bio Markets USA with POET-DSM, GranBio and Abengoa Bioenergy in attendance. Abengoa had its grand opening celebration last month with its new 25 mgpy cellulosic ethanol plant in Hugoton, Kansas. The facility is expected to … Continue reading
Location, location, location
Here are recent announcements on new headquarters and new R&D sites. LanzaTech, for one, has finally decided to move its global headquarters from New Zealand, where the company was founded, to Skokie, Illinois. The move will generate 30 new Illinois jobs with employees transferred from New Zealand, and 35 additional employees will move from Roselle, … Continue reading
Malaysia palm activities updates
Hello from a hazy/cloudy Kuala Lumpur where the palm and lauric oils industry congregates for this year’s annual conference. This is my first time attending this event, where most of the presentations will start tomorrow. I will tweet some of them via @Dgreenblogger using #POC2014. In the meantime, as I take my break in between … Continue reading
January News Roundup
It’s Superbowl Sunday and I got bored so back to blogging (36-0 Seahawks at this point). Anyway, I just confirmed last week that I will be attending the Palm and Lauric Oils Conference (POC) in Kuala Lumpur on March 3-5, so for those who will be attending, let me know if you want to meet. … Continue reading
Cellulosic biofuels projects still on track
The blog has not been able to post most of the biofuel announcements in the past three months, unfortunately, as most of the blog’s focus is now on renewable chemicals instead. However, you can visit the blog’s home page where I will post updated compiled newsfeed of biofuel announcements each month. For now, it seems … Continue reading
Private investors coming back?
Covering the renewable chemicals sector for the past several years, I’ve noticed that many of the investment announcements seem to increased usually in December, when I guess, private investors are more mellow and in a gift-giving mood. Here are some recent announcements: Infinity Group, a cross-border, private equity platform has invested $4.2m in green biotech … Continue reading
A New Year Greetings (and news)
Happy New Year!! The blog had a great first year on its new platform and according to WordPress, it was viewed at about 160,000 times in 2013 leading to a total of 183,000 times since the blog’s start-up in September 2012. In 2013, there were 313 new posts, growing the total archive of the blog … Continue reading
November news roundup
My apologies for the lack of news. Attending three conferences in a month plus a newsletter deadline has taken its toll, and therefore the coughing and sniffling continues (despite trying to cure it with some after-thanksgiving shopping). I am gathering all information I had from recent conferences and hopefully I can share some of them … Continue reading