R&D
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Bolt Threads’ Partners Introduce Mylo™
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California-based biotechnology company, Bolt Threads announced the creation of a consortium with iconic global companies – including adidas, Kering, lululemon, and Stella McCartney – who have secured exclusive access to its innovative material, Mylo™ made from infinitely renewable mycelium –…
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Stora Enso launches Accelerator Program
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Finnish pulp, paper and forest products company Stora Enso announced the launch of its Accelerator Program that is looking for start-up companies, growth companies, and disruptive entrepreneurs with current offerings in new material solutions, supply chain technologies, process optimization, analytics, IoT,…
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Glycolipids Market Expands As Technology Improves
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Several biotechnology and specialty chemical companies are ramping up marketing and commercialisation of microbial-based surfactants especially glycolipids like rhamnolipid and sophorolipids as fermentation, extraction and purification processes for these surfactants have vastly improved compared to even a few years back….
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Unilever to eliminate fossil fuels in cleaning products by 2030
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This is big news, especially in the surfactants market. Consumer Products Company Unilever announced this week that it will convert 100% of its fossil-based raw materials in its cleaning and laundry product formulations with renewable or recycled carbon. This move…
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The US Plastics Pact launched
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Led by the Recycling Partnership and World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the collaborative U.S. Plastics Pact was launched as part of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s global Plastics Pact network. The U.S. Plastics Pact is an ambitious initiative to unify diverse public-private…
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PNNL offers Special Exploratory License Agreement
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From time to time, I covered several R&D news coming from the US Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). One of these was the partnership between LanzaTech and PNNL on their ethanol-to-fuel technology R&D, which I believed, started…
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Working Toward a Circular Economy in Challenging Times – the chemical recycling solution
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The present moment is one of unprecedented challenge; for the world of engineering thermoplastics, there has been a chance to serve the needs of key workers, providing materials for protective masks, shields, and gowns. Details of some of these developments…