studies and reports
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From Pike Research: Green Garbage
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Pike Research’s Mackinnon Lawrence estimates the theoretical potential for biofuels production from global waste to be around 35bn gal/year today. This would more than double current production of biofuels worldwide while extracting untapped value from nearly 1.5 billion tons of waste. Garbage…
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Bio-MMA development expands
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I have reported about the development of biobased methyl methacrylate (MMA) only one time in November 2011 when Mitsubishi Rayon (MRC) and its subsidiary Lucite International announced that they have developed bio-based MMA, a chemical used in coatings, transparent plastics…
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What are the real costs of biofuels?
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Hi folks. Sorry for the sparse blog posts as I’ve been traveling these past few days, one for possible employment position, and today, I am currently at Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, for tomorrow’s Plant Bio-Industrial Oils Workshop. I will be doing a…
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Developing guar gum alternatives
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The blog is still working on a post about Ovation Biotech as well as updates on biobased adipic acid developments. Meanwhile, let’s visit the guar gum market as I’ve been hearing about how tight this market has become since last…
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The quest for bio-polystyrene
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I have this draft on bio-styrene for a couple of months now but has never been able to post it given that there are not many companies within the renewable chemicals industry developing plant-based styrene monomer alternatives. However, on February…
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Production milestones: Amyris, Genomatica
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The blog wishes our Asian readers a Happy Lunar New Year! Maybe the year of the snake would bring luck for renewable chemicals in 2013 after a couple of production milestone disappointments (according to investors) seen last year. Within the…
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EU biofuel and oilseed prospects
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Here is a good brief updates on the current European biofuels situation from the NNFCC, a UK bio-based economy consultancy. Like in the US, Europe’s biofuel industry is also mired with constant uncertain legislation especially about the European Renewable Energy…