Processing
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Avantium to build 5 ktpa FDCA, PEF flagship plant
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Avantium held its first Technology & Markets Day titled “Path to a fossil-free world” yesterday at the company’s headquarters in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The management team provided an update on the strategy of Avantium and its technologies, including the strategy for Synvina and commercialization of PEF. Avantium announced that it intends to build a cash-flow…
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Award, Biorefinery, Clean technology, Energy, Environment, Government, Investments, Press Release, Processing, R&D, RecycleUS DOE Selects Awardees for Phase I Innovation Projects
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I am interested in this news as not only does it gives me hope that the US Department of Energy (DOE) still give grants that not only boost small businesses but these small businesses are focusing on research projects targeting bio-based materials production, processes that lower carbon footprint as well as enabling circular carbon economy…
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VIDEO: Bio-products developed from mushroom compost
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This is another interesting EU government-funded project that I recently came across thanks to this press release from Finnish enzyme producer MetGen. The BIOrescue project aims to provide a solution by creating a novel biorefinery concept for mushroom compost, transforming it into valuable bio-based products such as bio-pesticides, biodegradable nano-carriers for drug or fertilizer encapsulation,…
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Neste expands renewables capacity in Singapore
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This news from Neste is well-timed as I just released my special report on global renewable diesel production (or what in the EU sometimes call hydrotreated vegetable oil or HVO production) in my December Biomaterials report published by Tecnon OrbiChem. Neste Corporation announced today its decision to invests around EUR 1.5 billion to expand Neste’s…
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Braskem, Topsoe to build a demo bio-MEG plant
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Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate here in the USA! I still have more ‘catching up’ posts and this one has already been announced back in July during the BIO World Congress but I guess the press statement (delivered by our friends from Sustainability Consult) just made it official. Braskem has signed a partnership with…
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AkzoNobel, Fibria pulp partnership
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AkzoNobel’s Specialty Chemicals business has completed the expansion of a Chemical Island in Brazil to support a major project for Brazilian forestry company Fibria. The world’s leading producer of eucalyptus pulp from planted forests, Fibria has invested $2.2 billion to more than double pulp capacity at its mill in Três Lagoas to 3.25 million tons…
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NatureWorks launches Performance Chemicals Division
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While NatureWorks has already been working on this new business model of launching lactides-based performance chemicals a year back, the company finally made it official with a new division and product line called Vercet™, which aims to supply lactides, polyols, binder resins and chemical intermediates to companies that manufacture innovative coatings, adhesives, sealants and elastomers…