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Happy Holidays from GCB
I promised myself I won’t work and check any of my emails during my 2-week long holiday vacation (I don’t remember taking 2 successive weeks off for the past 4-5 years) but I always consider blogging as a personal hobby so I am making an exception when it comes to GCB posting. Back in December … Continue reading
lululemon invests in renewable materials
US athletic apparel company lululemon Athletica Inc. has been very busy these past two months partnering all the way up in the company’s raw material supply chain. The company released its first Impact Agenda in October last year with a goal to make 100% of its products from sustainable materials by 2030. By 2025, lululemon … Continue reading
Rising Commercialisation of Specialty High-Temperature Bio-based Polymers
Last month, I wrote a special report for Tecnon OrbiChem’s Bio-Materials newsletter about polyimide and polyphthalamide (PPA), which are considered high-temperature specialty polymers. I am not quite familiar with these polymers but apparently, they can now be produced using renewable feedstock. Zymergen launched in December last year its Hyaline family of polyimide films and the … Continue reading
Global Bioenergies launches long-lasting cosmetics
Covering the renewable chemicals market, I’m always excited to try out consumer products that use chemical ingredients manufactured by start-up biotech companies that I’ve frequently covered in my reports. I’ve used Biossance skincare products by Amyris (which uses sugarcane-based squalene and Eighteen B skincare products by Bolt Threads (which uses fermentation-based silk proteins). Now, I … Continue reading
BASF and the bubbling bio-surfactants market
Happy Monday morning! There are a couple of company announcements that I’ve heard on the bio-surfactants market but we’ll focus on this recent announcement from BASF who is very familiar with this market given its broad range of oleochemical-based surfactant products as well as its sugar surfactant, alkypolyglucosides (APG®). BASF recently signed two partnership agreements … Continue reading
Forestry Products Market Update
Tecnon OrbiChem’s Bio-Materials newsletter recently published an update from major pine chemicals producers Kraton and Ingevity, as well as covering a company announcement from Fintoil. You can now access this information for free on this link below: Tecnon OrbiChem’s Bio-Materials newsletter also published this month a free-to-access Special Report on cellulose fibres, which is our … Continue reading
Opportunities in fiber-based food packaging
As my colleague from Fisher International, Pirita Huotari, pointed out on her recent blog post, ‘Is Fiber-Based Food Packaging a New Golden Opportunity for Specialty Papers?’, several major food corporations like McDonalds are making the commitment to transition to 100% fibre-based packaging by 2025, which presents a whole range of new opportunities for the Pulp … Continue reading
KFC Canada Testing Compostable Cutlery
HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO OUR US BLOG FOLLOWERS! (and belated to our Canadian subscribers!) In honor of chickens who are being spared from today’s national US holiday (sorry turkeys…), I came across this interesting news from KFC Canada that it will begin testing a new fibre-based spork in December. Once the piece of cutlery is introduced … Continue reading
Calling all startups: Enter the KAITEKI Challenge
Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Corporation (MCHC) and Greentown Labs, the largest climate tech startup incubator in North America, are now accepting applications for the KAITEKI Challenge, the latest iteration of the Greentown Launch corporate partnership accelerator program. Greentown Labs and MCHC seek novel technologies in alternative proteins, waste plastics recycling, and the prevention of food loss … Continue reading
E-commerce: A high-growth channel for renewable chems sales
This is very interesting news and maybe could become a trend in US chemical sales going forward (just like Alibaba in China). Archer Daniels Midland’s (ADM) Renewable Chemicals business announced that it is significantly expanding its pool of prospective customers by offering some of its best-selling products for sale via e-commerce giant Amazon. In May … Continue reading