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From Renewable Feedstock to Bio-based Solutions – by Lars Börger
Neste, 12bn€ turnover and 5000 employees in 15 countries, has started its migration out of big oil . The largest…
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Societal ROI of Bio-Based Chemicals and Materials by Dr Willem Sederel
The study is the result of a joint effort by Deloitte, Nova Institute and Delta
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Bio-Based Industries Joint Undertaking (BBI JU EU): Public -Private Partnership to Support the Transition to a Bio-Based Economy by Pilar Llorente
10th International Conference on Bio-bases Marerials – Köln, Germany- May 10-11, 2017
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The Brain Behind Avantium’s YXY Technology
Every day, hundreds of millions of plastic bottles are sold around the world, imposing a heavy burden on the environment.…
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Biomass to Bio-Butadiene: New Low-Cost Sustainable Sources to Produce Butadiene.
Synthetic rubber and plastics – used for manufacturing tires, toys and myriads of other products – are produced from butadiene,…
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Metgen Invents Novel Chemo-Enzymatic Route to FDCA
MetGen Oy, based in Kaarina – Finland, has invented a revolutionary chemo-enzymatic pathway that enables streamlined processes towards platform chemicals…
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Award Bio-Based Material 2017
The top 6 candidates are….
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European Parliament recognizes the contribution of bioplastics to the EU circular economy.
The plenary’s vote on amendments of the Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive encourages Member States to support the use of…
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Rennovia enters pilot stage of its bio-based 1.6- hexanediol (HDO) platform, accelerating the race to bio-nylon
Rennovia, CA (USA) has successfully commissioned and is operating its pilot plant operations for its sugars to 1,6-hexanediol process. 1,6-HDO…
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Toyota Goes Bioplastics Navigation System
DENSO Corporation (Japan) has been conducting research and development on plant-derived plastic materials, which are based on plant molecular structures, in order…
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Avantium completes IPO and heads for first commercial plant to produce FDCA
In the Netherlands, Avantium completed its highly-anticipated initial public offering, raising $109.5M (€103M) via the sale of 9,401,793 shares at…
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PepsiCo and Danimer Partner on Bio-degradable Film Resins
Danimer Scientific, GA USA and PepsiCo, Inc. NY USA have announced an agreement that includes development of Danimer Scientifics’ biodegradable…
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Plans Advancing for Comet’s Sarnia Cellulosic Sugar Plant
Comet Biorefining has begun detailed design work for a manufacturing plant it plans to build in Sarnia (Canada) to turn…
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Total Corbion PLA Formally Starts Up Operations
Total Corbion PLA announced on March 2, 2017 the official launch of its operations to produce and market Poly Lactic…
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VTT Develops CatLignin, a Reactive Lignin for Wood Adhesives
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has developed technology known as “CatLignin” to produce reactive lignin from pulp industry side…
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Thyssenkrupp PLAneo Technology Converts Lactic Acid into PLA
The company announced that it is building the first industrial demo plant of its patented PLAneo® technology in Changchun, China.…
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Leaf Resources and Novozymes Join Forces in the Conversion of Biomass to Functional Sugars
Leaf Resources (Australia) is focused on making sustainable products from plant biomass. It has developed a patented biomass pretreatment process…
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European Bioplastics Conference, Berlin November 2016 – Summary
This year edition of the European Bioplastics Conference was rich in content, especially for what concerns new molecules and new…
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Bio-Based Polyamides
Here’s a reproduction of an excellent digest issued by my dear collegue Doris de Guzman from Tecnon OrbiChem on the…
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Corbion and Total Form a Joint Venture
A week after breaking ground on its PLA plant in Thaïland, Corbion (The Netherlands) announces it forms a Joint Venture…
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BASF and Avantium form Synvina, a Biobased Chemicals JV
BASF (Germany) and Avantium (NL) have formed a joint venture for the production and marketing of furan-dicarboxylic acid (FDCA), which…
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Xinhuarun and Reverdia Partner to Develop Microcellular Bio-based PU Foam for Shoe Soles
Reverdia (the JV between Roquette, France and Royal DSM, Holland) and Dezhou Xinhuarun Technology (China) have signed an agreement to…
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K 2016 Breakfast What has changed?
Here’s a reproduction of Karen Laird’s article from the website of the Kunststoff, the biggest global show on plastics, and bio-plastics, taking…
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RENMATIX Receives Push by Total and Bill Gates
Renmatix announced it recently benefited from a $14 million investment led by Bill Gates and Total, which will reportedly help…
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$770B Renewable Chemicals and Materials by 2020
The Biotechnology Innovation Organization released a landmark report entitled “Advancing the Bio-based Economy: Renewable Chemical Biorefinery Commercialization, Progress, and Market…
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NESTE and IKEA Take Leadership in Bio-based Home Furniture
NESTE and IKEA join forces to industrialize and lead the trend of renewable bio-based materials for home furnishing plastic products.
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S2G Biochemicals Starts Commercialization of Bio-based Glycols
S2G Biochemicals (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) announced last month that it has successfully initiated commercial production of bio-based Monopropylene Glycols (MPGs)…
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French Launch First Bio-Isobutene Plant With l’Oreal
The French public investment program PIA provides €9 million funding to Global Bioenergies and IBN-One for a bio-isobutene plant project…
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Deinove Receives Award at Worldwide Innovation Challenge
DEINOVE received an award for its DEINOPLAST Program at the Worldwide Innovation Challenge organized by the French Public Investment Bank…
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Mitsui Chemicals’s Do Green Sunglasses Made from Plant-Derived Materials
Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. (Japan) announced the successful development of Do Green™ sunglasses which use plant-derived frames and plant-derived bio-based ophthalmic…
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Corbion Starts New PLA Plant in 2018
In order to further accelerate market acceptance of PLA, Corbion has already sold pre‐marketing volumes of PLA.Following their positive launch…
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Bio-Based World News Award
And the winner is….
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Bio-Based Products and Chemicals – Amsterdam May 24-25, 2016
Summary of Day 1
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Biochemtex and Valmet Convert Lignin to Bio-Chemicals
Valmet – a Finnish leading global developer and supplier of technologies, automation and services for the pulp, paper and energy…
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Reverdia’s bio-succinic acid finds application in paints
During the 2016 BIO World Congress in San Diego, Reverdia (Italy), the dedicated JV belonging to Roquette France and Royal…
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GFBiochemicals Makes a Bold Move Into the US market
GFBiochemicals acquired the assets and intellectual properties of Segetis, the main levulinic acid derivatives producer in the US market.
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Revolutionary 100% bio-based and bio-degradable milk brick
The truly revolutionary 100%bio-based and bio-degradable milk brick: a reality stemming from a partnership between the Tampere University of Technology…
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9th Intl Biobased Materials Conference – Day 2
Bio-polymers, lignin utilisation and update on Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) Closing the carbon cycle (Dr Christopher Gürtler, Covestro Germany) Amongst the dream…
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Winner of the Biobased Material of the Year 2016
And the winner is Orineo – Touch of Nature – from Belgium.
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Solegear Acquires Ex-Tech Plastics Bioplastics Division
Solegear Bioplastic Technologies Inc. (Vancouver, Canada) has entered into a definitive agreement with Ex-Tech Plastics, Inc.(Richmond, IL,USA), a manufacturer of…
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FDCA Boosted by BASF and Avantium – The JV Project
During the World Bio-market Conference in Amsterdam, corridors and networking sessions were buzzing with the big announcement by BASF and Avantium…
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Elevance and Versalis Pioneers a Second-Generation Biorefinery Technology
In collaboration with several partners, including the special contribution of Versalis (Italy) under a strategic partnership started in 2014, Elevance…
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Innovation Award “Bio-based Material of the Year 2016”: “Top 6” candidates nominated!
Highlights of the worldwide Bioeconomy: Policy and Markets – Bio-based Building Blocks and Polymers – Biorefineries and Industrial Biotechnology Innovation…
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Growth Prospect for Bioplastics Production Capacity for Next Five Years
The global bioplastics production capacity is set to increase from around 1.7 million metric tons in 2014 to approximately 7.8…
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DUPONT and ADM Change the Game in Bio-Based Industry
Dupont & ADM collaboration will change the game in the bio-based industry
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Biobased Economy in Europe: Slow But Steady
In a recent article, Diederik van der Hoeven from Biobased Press reported about a meeting ‘Agri meets chemicals’ at Rabobank…
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Another biobased dicarboxylic acid comes into commercial production, by Verdezyne
At EFIB in Brussels last month, Tom Beardslee proudly presented Verdezyne’s achievements in the production of biobased chemicals.
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European Bioplastics Conference – Day 2 (Nov 6)
1 – Sustainability at IKea by Per Stoltz, Sustainability Manager “Waste of resources is the biggest illness of mankind” Ingmar…
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European Bioplastics Conference – Day 1 (Nov 5)
The conference started with the introduction speech of European Bioplastics’s chairman, François de Bie, who thanked the participants for their…
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EUBP Conference & Bioplastics Award 2015
The 10th European Bioplastics Conference will open in a week from now in Berlin. I will be attending the two…
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Bio-On and Moore Capital Agree to Build a PHA Plant in Brazil
Bio-On sign a 2nd license agreement with Moore Capital to build a 10,000 ton PHA bioplastic production plant in Brazil…
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TECNARO Develops, Produces and Markets Lignin Based ARBOFORM®
Named after latin arbor, tree, Arboform™ is a sustainable thermoplastic material made of 100% renewable raw materials, with a lignin…
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New Copolymer for Hot Melt Adhesives With More Than 80% Renewable Content
Perstorp (Sweden) and Corbion (NL) have announced a breakthrough innovation for adhesives resulting from a partnership agreement both companies signed…
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Newlight and Vinmar Bet on Carbon-Negative Plastic
This article was written by Barbara Grady and published on August 31st 2015 in GreenBiz. It mentions the same huge volumes as in…
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TerraVerdae’s Waste to PHA Production Scale-Up Completed
TerraVerdae BioWorks Inc (Canada) develops biodegradable bioplastics, specifically polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA), biobased chemicals and bioactives from environmentally sustainable, single carbon methanol…
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Biodegradable Plastics will Grow 10.8% Per Year
MarketsandMarkets is one of the top firms in terms of premium market research. M&M specializes in consulting assignments and business…
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Producing Bio-Sourced Biodegradable Plastic Just Got Cheaper and Greener
Biosourced, biodegradable, biocompatible and fit for 3D printing, polylactic acid PLA seems to earn the pole position in the bioplastics market…
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Vinmar Signs Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) Deal with Newlight Technologies
After the BioAmber (Canada) bio-succinic acid deal, Vinmar (Houston-TX) recently announced that it has signed a 20-year contract for up…
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Turning Thistles Into Plastics – The Matrica Complex
Novamont and Versalis-ENI (Italy) opened their innovative green chemistry “Matrica” complex in Sardinia just a year ago. A new “third generation…
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Oleon Inaugurates New R&D Lab in Malaysia
OLEON, the Oleo-Chemicals branch of the AVRIL agro-industrial group (ex-Sofiproteol – France) inaugurates new R&D lab in Malaysia. Moussa Naciri,…
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Australian technology for super high oleic safflower oil
GO Resources Pty Ltd (GO) – a new Australian Cleantech company – has entered into an exclusive worldwide license agreement…
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Bio-based Industries Joint Undertaking Will Invest 120 Mln Eur to Boost EU Bio-Economy
The Bio-based Industries Joint Undertaking, a public-private partnership between the EU and the Bio-based Industries Consortium (BIC), has approved the…
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Metabolic Explorer and SK Chemicals Optimize their Partnership
METabolic EXplorer (France) and SK Chemicals (South Korea) recently issued an update about their 1,3-propanediol (PDO) industrialization project in Ulsan…
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Exclusive Interview with Michael Carus (Nova-Institute)
Exclusive Interview with Michael Carus from Nova Institute
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Avantium Partners with Tereos
For years, major global agribusiness companies have been partnering with chemical companies strategically engaged into changing their business models to…
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Bioplastics Breakthrough in Cosmetics, Agriculture and Toys
The recent NPE Plastics tradeshow held in Orlando, Florida, USA, evidenced a greater acceptance of bio-based plastics and additives as several companies…
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What’s the Future of Bioplastics as Commodity Packaging?
The Biobased Packaging conference (BioPAC), which took place mid-May in Amsterdam, was both informative and disappointing. It was informative because…
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Solegear and Columbia Plastics Tie-Up to Bring Polysole Bioplastics to North American Market
Solegear Bioplastic Technologies Inc. based in Vancouver, BC (USA) and Columbia Plastics Ltd., a custom injection molding company based in…
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NatureWorks Moves into 3D printing and Disrupts Filament Industry
Whilst Corbion (NL) is strategically moving downstream from lactic acid into polylactic acid (PLA) to become second supplier, the pioneer…
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Corbion Signs LOI for PLA Polymerization Plant
Corbion (NL) announces that it has signed letters of intent for one-third of the volume of a 75,000 metric Tons…
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Bioplastics Packaging Expected to Have Important Growth in Next 6 Years
Grand View Research expects the bioplastic packaging market to grow significantly over the next six years.
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Potato Waste Based PHA Plant and Levulinic Acid From Biomass
Bio-On and Pizzoli, plan to build a potato waste-based PHA plant. Bio-On and Eridania Sadam team-up to develop levulinic acid…
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DOE Top 12 Biobased Molecules – What They Became
Although this subject is a bit larger than the focus of Bioplastics News, I find it useful to cast light on…
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OPXBIO Sells Fermentation Tech to Cargill
This major piece of news made no noise in Europe and Asia. It fell late on April 30 and splashed the web…
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100% Bio-Based Polyurethane is a Market Reality Now
Let’s come back on Bayer MaterialScience’s Desmodur™ eco N 7300 which was honoured for this development with the “Bio-based Material…
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International Conference on Bio-Based Materials – Day 2
The second day of the International Conference on Bio-based Materials in Köln, Germany, organised by nova-Institute, focused largely on the…
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International Conference on Bio-based Materials – Day 1
Michael Carus founder and head of the Nova-Institute GmbH, organiser of the International Conference on Bio-based Materials, introduces the 8th…
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Innovation Award Bio-Based Material of the Year 2015
Innovation Award “Bio-based Material of the Year 2015” goes to Bayer MaterialScience AG for the first bio-based polyurethane crosslinker for…
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2015 Agrobiobase Award
The Industries & Agro-Resources Competitiveness Cluster (IAR) – together with the French Minister of Agriculture, Agrifood and Forestry, and with…
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Pictures of the Plant Based Summit 2015
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Novamont Bio-Economic Model Based on Regional Regeneration
With the conversion of the Porto Torres petrochemical plant in Sardinia into the Matrìca biorefinery (a 50:50 joint venture between Novamont…
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In memory of Guido Ghisolfi
Guido Ghisolfi, aged 58, VP of Mossi Ghisolfi Group, died tragically on March 3, 2015. I join Mario Bonaccorso, editor…
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Bio Aromatics Derived From Lignin
Aromatic compounds are so easily extracted from (fossil-based) naphtha, that bio aromatics seemed to be science fiction. The reason: lignin, the most…
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Bio-Based Polyurethane (PU) Market Analysis and Forecast to 2020
Global bio-based polyurethane (PU) market is expected to reach USD 37.5 million by 2020, or less than 0.07% of the…
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Corbion Purac Intends to Build a 75000 Tpa PLA Production Plant
Corbion Purac ( Netherlands) will accelerate its thrust into the biotechnology arena, making the next step in the bioplastics value…
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The Great Future of Furanic Chemistry
2,5-Furandicarboxylic acid (FDCA), also known as dehydromucic acid, is an oxidized furan derivative. This organic compound was first obtained by Fittig and Heinzelmann in 1876.
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USDA Reports on Bioeconomy and its Positive Impact on Economy and Labor
If Europe has been leading the way in trying to set up a comprehensive bio-economic program, the US are catching…
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Bio-Based Companies Rank in Global Cleantech 100
The 2014 Global Cleantech 100 companies were announced on October 6, 2014 at the Global Cleantech 100 Gala in Washington, D.C .
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We had Waste-to-Fuel. Now, we have Waste-to- Film
You’d heard about Waste-to-Fuel. This is a good example of the circular economy: beer spent grain fibers are used as a biodegradable…
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Virent Expanding Plant-Based Bottle Program with Coca-Cola
Virent Inc. (USA) will expand production in Madison of a plant-based chemical that can be used to make renewable plastic…
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Lignin From Biorefineries Into Adhesive
The idea of using natural products in adhesives is not new. Animal blood, fish bones or skin and casein adhesives…
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Genomatica Recognised as Pioneer by World Economic Forum
The World Economic Forum (WEF) recognizes Genomatica as technology pioneer for biobased chemical production processes at large. Genomatica headquartered in…
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Lignin and Plant-Oil Based Aromatic Polymers
Within the scope of project Mutatio, financed up to 20 million Euros by the Public Investment Banque of France through…
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New Alliance Between Dyadic and CIMV
Yet another alliance between a biorefiner and an enzyme producer: Dyadic & CIMV Collaborate to commercialize second generation bio-based chemical…
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INRA & AgroParisTech Develop Method for Plant Based Bisphenol A Alternatives
Research scientists from INRA (French National Institute for Agronomic Research) and AgroParisTech ( the leading French Agronomic Engineering University) have…
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Is Biobased the New Highway to the Old Nylon?
We reproduce below an excellent article from BioFuels Digest written by Jim Lane on the state of the development of…
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Turning Vegetable Waste Into Bioplastics
Italian team find new ways of converting vegetable waste into bioplastics. Italian researchers from the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) have found a…
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Biosensors to Optimise Bio-Refining Process of Lignin
Researchers from University of British Columbia (Canada) develop a biosensor to optimize the bio-refining processes to fractionate lignin.
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IFMAS starts R&D for Plant-Based Polymers and Bio-Plastics
Two IEEDs (Institutes for energy transition and plant based chemistry) were approved for France under Nicolas Sarkozy’s presidency in 2010…
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The Future of Bioplastics in India
Shwetha Kamath recently posted an article in Ecoideaz giving an answer to the aforementioned question.
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