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Bioeconomy
It’s the holiday season for US renewable chemicals
While the renewable chemicals industry continues to play second fiddle to biofuels when it comes to US government funding (it’s true!), the Biden Administration’s actions towards boosting the bioeconomy are setting off a flurry of activities on how renewable chemicals companies can dip in to these bioeconomy-related funding initiatives. Just yesterday, the White House Office … Continue reading
BIOECONOMY: Poised At A Historic Crossroads
Unfortunately, it is getting harder for me to blog with my workload at Tecnon OrbiChem so I am happy to share this Bioeconomy post that our marketing has put up on the TOC blog site based on my presentation in April for the Pine Chemicals Association Spring Meeting. You can also download my presentation when … Continue reading
Stora Enso launches Accelerator Program
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, design, manufacturing, machine learning and artificial intelligence that can provide solutions to reduce or eliminate plastic … Continue reading
EU Bioeconomy reaches EUR 2.4 trillion in 2017
The nova-Institute report commissioned by the Bio-based Industries Consortium (BIC) noted that the analysis of the 2017 Eurostat data shows that the turnover of the total bioeconomy*, including food and beverages and the primary sectors of agriculture and forestry, results in just over 2.4 trillion EUR in the EU-28, meaning an increase by 25% since 2008. … Continue reading
Working Toward a Circular Economy in Challenging Times – the chemical recycling solution
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 are given in the latest Engineering Thermoplastics Chemical Business Focus newsletter, which focuses on how … Continue reading
The Great Reset: A Post-Covid19 Bioeconomy Agenda
I just learned from my social media networks that today is apparently #WorldEnvironmentDay so let me share this very interesting initiative called the Great Reset launched jointly on June 3 in a virtual meeting by the World Economic Forum and HRH The Prince of Wales in response to the need for a better world in … Continue reading
EIB launches €700m bioeconomy financing
The European Investment Bank (EIB), the EU bank launched in early April a new financing initiative that aims to unlock close to €1.6 billion of investment in the agriculture and bioeconomy sector. The financing aims to support private companies operating throughout the value chains of production and processing of food, bio-based materials and bioenergy. It … Continue reading
Canada’s biofuels, cleantech industries call for a clean economic recovery
Advanced Biofuels Canada (ABFC) has joined with a broad group of clean energy and cleantech industries and non-profit leaders in climate and energy policy to call on the federal government to support secure jobs in a cleaner, innovative, and diverse economy. These clean energy sector leaders recently delivered a letter to Prime Minister Trudeau outlining … Continue reading
Report: Strong job gains from the US Bioproducts Sector
STRONG BIOPRODUCTS SECTOR GROWTH NATIONWIDE LEADS TO EQUALLY STRONG JOB GAINS The report–An Economic Impact Analysis of the U.S. Biobased Products Industry (2018)—was prepared for the USDA’s BioPreferred® Program. The report is the fourth volume in a series of reports tracking the impact of the biobased product industry on the U.S. economy. The biobased products … Continue reading
US DOE Selects Awardees for Phase I Innovation Projects
I am interested in this news as not only does it gives me hope that the US Department of Energy (DOE) still give grants that not only boost small businesses but these small businesses are focusing on research projects targeting bio-based materials production, processes that lower carbon footprint as well as enabling circular carbon economy … Continue reading