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VIDEOS: Bioplastic products in the news
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Happy Hump Day! I might not be able to post again next week so let me put these interesting bioplastic news now before I get swept away by deadlines. NatureWorks talks about the chemistry behind Ingeo & Vercet and how lactide polyester resins are used as tackifiers in EVA hot melt adhesive applications. The ButterflyCup is reportedly…
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Braskem Green PE 101
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I think I’ve mentioned before that I like posting videos on the blog. Here is another one from Braskem explaining the production and sustainability of its I’m Green sugarcane-based polyethylene plastic. The company has been heavily promoting the bio-based plastic in the US despite challenges of low crude oil (hence low petro plastics) prices. Braskem…
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Brazilian Industrial Biotech Association (ABBI) launched
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Companies that include Amyris, BASF, BioChemtex, BP, Centro de Tecnologia Canavieira, Dow Chemical, DSM, DuPont, GranBio, Novozymes, Raizen and Rhodia have joined forces to form the Brazilian Industrial Biotechnology Association (Associação Brasileira de Biotecnologia Industrial or ABBI) with a primary objective of fostering a dialogue within Brazilian society about the advancements of industrial biotechnology in…
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BASF and Espaço ECO® join Bonsucro
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This press release is in Brazilian Portuguese so my apologies if Google translate is not that accurate. According to the announcement, BASF Crop Protection in Brazil and Espaço ECO® Foundation (FEE®) established by BASF, have became members of Bonsucro – the international nonprofit certification firm that aims to reduce the environmental and social impacts in…