R&D
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European project to improve PLA production
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The Technological Institute of Plastics AIMPLAS, along with eleven other enterprises and technological European centers, has launched the InnoREX project, financed by the Seventh Framework Program funds and coordinated by the German Fraunhofer Institute for Chemical Technology – ICT. The 42-month…
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BASF explores CO2-based syngas production
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For several years now, BASF has been working on using carbon dioxide as feedstock for chemical manufacture. The company announced last week that alongside its partners Linde Group (a major industrial gas producer) and engineering firm ThyssenKrupp, the companies are…
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University of Liverpool gets biobased chems R&D funds
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The University of Liverpool has been awarded funding to develop the next generation of renewable chemicals from biomass to use in the manufacture of materials, plastics, solvents and pharmaceuticals. The £1.8million project, which is in collaboration with the University of York,…
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Making vanillin from wood pulp lignin
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Researchers from the University Putra Malaysia say they’ve discovered an environmentally-friendly way to oxidise lignin — sourced from a local saw mill that processed rubber trees — into vanillin that has the potential to change the economics of vanillin synthesis. Their…
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Booming University green chems research
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The blog has been seeing a lot of R&D news from various universities on how to improve green chemistry processing and these are definitely worthwhile checking out. Here’s one from the University of Florida (UF) about their research in turning…
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Anellotech readies bio-BTX start
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I just heard back from Myriant about their recent partnership announcement with Bayegan and I am going to update my last post about it soon. In the meantime, let me put out this news from Anellotech, which for some mysterious…
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Biobased coatings/adhesives news
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I don’t usually get many news covering biobased chemicals for coatings and adhesives and the last big one was about the partnership between Henkel and Danimer on developing bio-based hotmelt adhesives for consumer packaging. And maybe I can also add…