Category: Joint Venture & Partnerships
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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 should have been a marriage in paradise but is it really?
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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 is an early sign of the disruption of the nylon industry.
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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 including Synvina, its two JV partners Avantium (The Netherland) and BASF(Germany), Tereos Participations (France), Alpla Werke Alwin Lehner GmbH & Co Kg (Austria), OMV Machinery Srl (Italy), Croda Nederland B.V.(The Netherlands), Nestec Sa (Switzerland) Lego…
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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 film resins to meet the sustainable flexible packaging requirements of PepsiCo’s global food and beverage business.
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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 Acid (PLA) polymers. As announced by its parent companies Total ( France)and Corbion (The Netherlands) last November, the new company is a 50/50 joint venture based in the Netherlands.
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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 called GLYCELL*, which uses glycerine to economically produce cellulosic sugars.
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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 with Total (France) in bioplastics.
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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 is produced from renewable resources, as well as the marketing of polyethylene-furanoate (PEF) based on the new chemical building block FDCA.
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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 jointly develop and promote Biosuccinium™-based microcellular polyurethane (PU) foams. These new microcellular foams will be used in soles for footwear and further applications.
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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 involving Cristal Union as partner supplier and L’Oréal as partner customer.
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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 confirming that they have signed a letter of intent and entered into exclusive negotiations to establish a joint venture for the production and marketing of furandicarboxylic acid (FDCA) which is made from plant-based industrial sugars.
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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 after its first licence agreement with Cristal Union to build a 5,000 to PHA plant in France.
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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 our previous article published on July 29th 2015.
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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 to 8,5 billion tons of AirCarbon™ PHA from Newlight Technologies (California) over 20 years.
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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 (Republic of Korea). The two partners have decided to further collaborate to optimize the integration and extension of the first PDO project on the existing petrochemical complex and conduct engineering activities for the first commercial…
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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 sustainable plant based chemistry.
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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 Surrey, BC (USA), have come into an agreement to work together and jointly market products made with Solegear’s proprietary Polysole® bioplastics
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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 technology.
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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 distributor of Domtar’s BioChoice™ lignin in Europe. BioChoice™ is produced at Domtar’s biorefinery in Plymouth, North Carolina, US. The agreement takes effect on 1 August 2014.
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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 investments bring Avantium closer to completion of Polyethylene Furanoate (PEF) commercial scale plant.
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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 fibers, plastics, films, and chemicals.
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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 printing and other applications.
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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) starts commercial production.
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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 global collaborative partnerships.
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