soybean
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Rodents Don’t Favor Soy-Based Plastics
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This news from the United Soybean Board (USB) caught my attention because I never thought that rodents and insects could be more attracted to plant-based plastics and materials. Fortunately, this is not the case (for rodents anyway) as according to…
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Soybean news: A new biorefinery and new products
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The Minnesota Soybean Processors (MnSP) has invested in Ontario, Canada-based Altranex Corporation and entered a license and marketing agreement for renewable lubricant base oils, waxes, diesel and other products using soybean oil as feedstock. The biorefinery will use Altranex’s patented…
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USDA launches first price report on non-GMO corn and soybeans
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I am still in the middle of working on Tecnon OrbiChem’s Bio-materials newsletter, but I cannot resist posting this interesting report about the USDA AMS’s launch of its first weekly report on prices for non-GMO corn and soybeans. According to news…
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Soy-based materials continue to expand
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There are several presentations about the industrial use of soybeans at this week’s Green Chemistry and Engineering Conference in Bethesda, Maryland, hosted by the American Chemical Society Green Chemistry Initiative (ACSGCI), that I might as well dig these articles that…