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INVISTA, Eucodis Bioscience on enzymes collaboration
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INVISTA has been very active this year in pushing through its industrial biotechnology projects and the blog just recently posted its recent announcement about expanding the company’s collaboration with LanzaTech and commercialization of its bio-based LYCRA® spandex. Last week, INVISTA and Austrian biotech company, Eucodis Bioscience, announce a collaboration for the screening and engineering of enzymes…
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Siluria partners with Linde on ethylene tech
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Siluria Technologies and The Linde Group have entered into a collaboration agreement based on Siluria’s oxidative coupling of methane (OCM) technology, which catalytically converts methane directly to ethylene. The companies have formed joint teams, which will fully integrate the companies’ respective technologies and collaborate through the final scale-up and demonstration of the OCM technology at the…
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INVISTA and LanzaTech expand collaboration
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I had several interviews last month and a few of them I will post in the blog as all the interviews I did was already published on Tecnon OrbiChem’s Bio-Materials newsletter. During the recent BIO World Congress in Philadelphia, INVISTA and LanzaTech announced that they have signed a research and development agreement on projects that will…
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P2 Science partners with Ballestra
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Connecticut, US-based renewable chemical company, P2 Science, has partnered with global engineering company, Desmet Ballestra SpA (DBI), for the commercialization of Ballestra’s reactor technology in P2’s proprietary ozonolysis process for the production of flavor, fragrance and cosmetic ingredients using biomass for feedstock. P2’s ozonolysis technology for the conversion of vegetable oils and terpenes has demonstrated…
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Verdezyne Reaches Key Production Milestone
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Verdezyne, Inc., a privately-held industrial biotechnology company focused on producing renewable chemicals, announced that it has produced more than one metric ton of bio-based dodecanedioic acid (DDDA) using its proprietary yeast platform and downstream process. The Michigan Biotechnology Institute (MBI) and the Michigan State University (MSU) Bioeconomy Institute (BEI) worked with Verdezyne to run the…
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Technip to construct Cargill’s new ethanol plant
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Technip was awarded a contract comprising detailed engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) for the core process units of Cargill’s new ethanol production plant located in Barby, Germany. The production units will be built on a green field site alongside Cargill’s existing wheat processing facility. The ethanol is destined for beverages, cosmetics and pharmaceutical industry. The…
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Introducing: Liquid Light’s waste CO2-to-MEG tech
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This is another interview that is a bit late in posting. I have been covering several new technologies since late last year for Tecnon OrbiChem’s Bio-Materials newsletter, where these new technologies are now using feedstock such as methane, syngas and carbon dioxide/carbon monoxide to produce various chemical intermediates. Are these bio-based feedstock? They could be…