Processing
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Solazyme Produces Renewable™ Algal Oils at Iowa
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Solazyme announced that commercial operations have commenced at both Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM)’s Clinton, Iowa facility, and the downstream companion facility operated by American Natural Products in Galva, Iowa (ANP). Highlighting the flexibility of Solazyme’s technology platform, Solazyme, ADM…
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Cellulac to build a lactic acid plant
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The countdown for 2014 begins and I hope next year will bring in revenue for the blog (for the first time in 6 years!). This woman needs to eat! Anyway, I had a really interesting interview with Ireland-based industrial biochemicals…
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More bio-butadiene partnerships
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Two exciting news just came out this week regarding bio-butadiene. Braskem and Genomatica announced this morning their joint development agreement on a commercial process technology to make bio-based butadiene from renewable feedstock. The companies did not say what kind of…
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INVISTA, CPI on gas fermentation-based chems
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INVISTA and The Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) announced a collaboration for the development of new technologies to enable gas-fermentation-based processes for the production of industrial chemicals. The collaboration will leverage INVISTA’s capabilities in biotechnology and catalysis, and knowledge of the…
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LanzaTech, SK Innovation in bio-butadiene
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The blog has featured SK Innovation before about its carbon its carbon dioxide-based polypropylene carbonate (PPC) under the trademark Green Pol. The last I heard about this product is that SK Innovation will supposedly start commercial production of its PPC…
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BASF offers integrated biomass-based chemical manufacture approach
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BASF, working in cooperation with TÜV SÜD (a third-party certification body), has developed an innovative mass balance approach for the use of renewable feedstocks in the integrated production. The process is available immediately for many products and can be adapted…
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Amyris meets production milestone
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Good news for Amyris investors. Last week, the company announced that its farnesene plant in Sao Paulo, Brazil has achieved production rate of 1m liters over a 45-day period. Amyris said it is on track to achieve its year-end cost…