Category: Joint Venture & Partnerships
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Ikea and Neste Go Bioplastics
This is major news. Swedish home Furniture Giant IKEA and NESTE bind forces to revolutionise the home furniture market.
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Who is NatureWorks?
NatureWorks is the leading PLA producer and a joint venture between Cargill (US) and PTT Chemical (Thailand). The joint venture…
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Project Effective Will Replace Traditional Nylon by Bio-Nylon
Project EFFECTIVE involves 12 organisations from 8 countries and has the purpose to produce more sustainable nylon and fibres. This…
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€25M Granted to PEFerence the Synvina-led European Consortium for PEF
In the Netherlands, a BBI subsidy of €25 million has been granted to “PEFerence,” a consortium consisting of 11 companies…
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Update on Corbion-Total JV Bringing Innovation to the PLA Market by François de Bie
78 million tons of plastic are produced for single use packaging every year.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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UPM to Distribute BioChoice™ Lignin
Pulp & Paper giant’s UPM (Finland) and Domtar (USA) have entered into an agreement for UPM to become the exclusive…
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ENI Versalis and Novamont Inaugurate First Joint Venture Plant
ENI Versalis (I) & Novamont inaugurate first plant of their joint venture Matrìca to produce plant based chemicals.
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PEF and Avantium Towards Replacement of PET
A big step forward for PEF and Avantium towards the replacement of petroleum based polyethylene terephtalate (PET): USD 50 Mn…
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Gevo Ships Bio-Paraxylene (PX) to Toray
Gevo is selling para-xylene (PX) derived from its renewable iso-butanol to Toray (Japan) , one of the world’s leading producers of…
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BioPlastic Collaborative Partnerships
Dyson (UK) and the Center for Process Innovation (CPI-UK) explore the use of plant based biopolymers in food packaging, 3D…
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Corbion & Basf Partner on Succinity
Another European Bioplastic Collaborative Partnership on Bio-Succinic Acid comes to fruition: a JV between Corbion Purac (Netherlands) and BASF (Germany)…
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Novamont Buys JV Mater-Biopolymer
Novamont (Italy) acquires 78% of the shares in JV Mater-Biopolymer srl from Mossi & Ghisolfi (Italy).
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BioHub
BioHub™ is an open innovation Program at Roquette (France) to Develop Biobased Products and Processes
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BioAmber and CCP Team Up
BIOAMBER & CCP team-up to increase the biobased content of composites, enhance their properties and enlarge their potential application spectrum.
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LanzaTech and Evonik Alliance
LANZATECH (NZ) forming new alliance to create a complete value chain from waste to bioplastics owing to combination of rich…
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