butanol
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Growing bio-based solvent market
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While the bio-based solvent market might have a set-back with the closing of Green Biologics bio-based n-butanol facility in Little Falls, Minnesota (I wrote a more comprehensive report about this in Tecnon OrbiChem’s July Biomaterials issue), consumers for these specialty…
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Green Biologics Acquires GreenFlame™ Brand, partners with Kroger
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Straight from Green Biologics’ press release….analysis on this development will be available later this month for Tecnon OrbiChem’s Biomaterials newsletter subscribers. Green Biologics, Inc., the U.S. subsidiary of Green Biologics Ltd., a U.K. industrial biotechnology and renewable chemicals company, has…
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Green Biologics starts biochem shipments
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UK-based Green Biologics recently announced that it has begun commercial shipments of bio-based n-butanol and acetone from its first manufacturing facility in Little Falls, Minnesota. The company retrofitted a 21 million gal/year corn ethanol plant, which the company acquired from…
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Green Biologics in distributor partnerships
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Still in my catching-up mode, this time with bio-based n-butanol developer, Green Biologics, which we have the pleasure of speaking with at BIO World Congress. The company recently announced partnerships with chemical distributors, Nexeo and Acme Hardesty for its bio-butanol and…
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Green Biologics starts bio-butanol plant construction
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It’s 4am Italy time and yes, this is as good time as any to blog before I leave back to NYC this morning. I had a great time visiting GF Biochemicals here in Caserta and will blog about it soon….
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Borregaard gets bio-based chems R&D grant
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Borregaard has received a pledge for a NOK 12.4 million ($2.04m) grant from Innovation Norway to be used over three years in the field of innovation projects based on products from biomass. The funds come from the Government’s package of…
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Big green news from last week
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I am back from my vacation and trying to delete/answer hundreds of emails from the past 10 days. Meanwhile, let me posts these news from last week before I start completing my presentation for next month’s ICIS World Chemical Purchasing…