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New bio-butanol player: Optinol
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There’s a new kid in the bio-butanol town. I saw this press release last night while I was going through my newsfeed and this is the first time I’ve heard of San Francisco-based Optinol — a collaborative venture between SynGest…
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Gevo starts second million-liter fermenter
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Gevo said it has brought its second million liter fermenter and GIFT® system online at its Luverne, Minn. facility. The GIFT® system separates the isobutanol from the fermentation broth. The company plans to bring the final fermenters and GIFT® system online…
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Bayer to commercialize CO2-based polyols
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It is almost the end of July and I just want to remind those who are interested in subscribing to our new Bio-Materials & Intermediates reports that you have until next week Wednesday (July 31) to avail of Tecnon OrbiChem’s special…
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Elevance starts shipment from Indonesia biorefinery
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Elevance Renewable Sciences and Wilmar International announced that they have begun shipping commercial products, including novel specialty chemicals, to customers worldwide from their first world-scale joint venture biorefinery located in Gresik, Indonesia, which started operations this year. The biorefinery, which…
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Modular Genetics Demonstrates Bio-Glycinate Production
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The blog has encountered Modular Genetics once or twice in the past three years but has never looked deep into the company’s activities in the biobased surfactants area. Modular’s lead product is their patented acyl glutamate surfactants initially targeted to…
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European project to improve PLA production
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The Technological Institute of Plastics AIMPLAS, along with eleven other enterprises and technological European centers, has launched the InnoREX project, financed by the Seventh Framework Program funds and coordinated by the German Fraunhofer Institute for Chemical Technology – ICT. The 42-month…
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Green Biologics demo scale-up
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Apologies for the silence yesterday as I was (and still am) in the middle of a big project. Some of you might already know what I’m talking about. Anyway, the biobased butanol industry is teeming with capacity scale-up with Gevo…