Products
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Elevance launches personal care product lines
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If the blog remembers correctly, Elevance has already been selling personal care ingredients since 2008 such as soy petrolatum with its partner Dow Corning. This week, Elevance announced the commercial availability of its first personal care product lines: “Elevance Smooth”…
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Avantium’s 100% biobased T-shirts from recycled PEF bottles
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The first time I covered Avantium’s PEF (polyethylene furanoate) resin, which is being offered as an alternative to PET (polyethylene terephthalate), one of the industry concerns about this new bio-based material is if it can fit into the existing PET…
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Walmart launches 100% bio-based cleaners
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I have to wade through a lot of earnings reports this week so before I get caught up with my preparation for Tecnon OrbiChem’s November newsletter, and for my trip next week attending Ecochem in Switzerland, I hope to be able to…
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NatureWorks’ next generation lactide
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NatureWorks announced the world scale availability of its new Ingeo M700, a high-purity, polymer-grade lactide rich in meso-lactide. Ingeo M700 has been designed to package and deliver performance and functionality all in one molecule. Ingeo M700 lactide can be used…
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Lanxess’ customers showcase PBT using bio-BDO
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This week is chock-full of press releases especially coming from K2013 that hopefully it will calm down next week because it is my newsletter deadline week! For this news, Genomatica has been building up the downstream applications for its bio-based…
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Solvay launches high-performance bio-based polyamides in electronics
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Solvay Specialty Polymers has expanded its Kalix® high-performance polyamide (HPPA) product line, with a new portfolio of bio-based high-performance polyamides offered for use in smart mobile devices such as smart phones, tablets, laptops, and other smart mobile electronics. The introduction…
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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…