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Rodents Don’t Favor Soy-Based Plastics
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 a recent study funded by the USB, soy-based materials are not that tasty compared to … Continue reading
Soybean news: A new biorefinery and new products
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 electrolysis process. Altranex is currently building a pilot biorefinery in Ontario that will produce 1 … Continue reading
USDA launches first price report on non-GMO corn and soybeans
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 sources, the non-GMO feed corn is reportedly selling for significantly more than the conventional engineered … Continue reading
Soy-based materials continue to expand
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 have been fermenting in my draft box for quite a while now. Yesterday, Linda Kim-Habermehl … Continue reading