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Deinove produces muconic acid from 2G substrates
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The blog has been following France-based Deinove for quite sometime now, with its development of its Deinococcus microorganism. The company recently announced that it has been able to produce muconic acid in their laboratory using second generation cellulose-based materials. Muconic…
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Association, Conference, Event, General, Government, Investments, News Roundup, Opinion, R&D, Regulation, Twitter LiveTwitter Live: INFOCAST Sustainable Chemicals Summit
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Held in San Diego, California, the INFOCAST Sustainable Chemicals & Plastics Adoption & Applications Summit brought together consumer brand, OEM, retail decision makers, venture capitalists, financiers, corporate strategics, chemical majors, specialty, bio-based and sustainable chemical companies to provide a detailed…
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Amyris develops yeast strain for fragrance molecule
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Hello blog readers. I am currently in San Diego attending INFOCAST’s Methane Bioengineering Summit (#MethaneSummit) yesterday, and the Sustainability Chemicals (#INFOCASTBio) summit today and tomorrow. I hope you’ve been following my tweets on it. In the meantime, let me write…
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Alberta Bio program offers $3m funding
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Alberta Innovates Bio Solutions has launched a new funding program “Alberta Bio Future Product and Technology Commercialization,” which aims to increase the value derived from Alberta’s renewable biomass resource with new products or technologies for the province’s bioindustrial sector. A…
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VIDEO: ZealaFoam – a biodegradable alternative to polystyrene
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The blog has been reporting developments in bio-based polystyrene (PS) especially at these times where expandable PS is being banned in several cities in the US including the recent one here in my hometown, New York City. New Zealand-based The…
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Sharp uses bioplastic for its new smartphone
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Ok, so I’m late posting some of these news that were announced last month as I had to report (and analyze) these first at Tecnon OrbiChem’s Bio-materials newsletter. Here is another interesting development for Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation’s (MCC) bio-based engineering…
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DOE awards $18m grant to algae-based projects
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Let me post this before I leave for Montreal, Canada, today. The US Department of Energy (DOE) recently announced six projects that will receive up to $18 million in funding to reduce the modeled price of algae-based biofuels to less…