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Rising Commercialisation of Specialty High-Temperature Bio-based Polymers
Last month, I wrote a special report for Tecnon OrbiChem’s Bio-Materials newsletter about polyimide and polyphthalamide (PPA), which are considered high-temperature specialty polymers. I am not quite familiar with these polymers but apparently, they can now be produced using renewable feedstock. Zymergen launched in December last year its Hyaline family of polyimide films and the … Continue reading
Zymergen launches IPO at Nasdaq
So here’s another word to include in my renewables dictionary – “Biofacturing”, which according to Zymergen, is the design, development and commercialization of bio-based breakthrough products, economically, at an industrial scale, where microorganisms create the biomolecules that are the key ingredients in those products. As of 22 April California-based biofacturing company Zymergen began trading on … Continue reading