Category: US
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US Brewery Goes Bioplastics
Florida microbrewery, Saltwater Brewery, uses a six pack ring made from wheat and barley to replace fossil based plastic ring.
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New York Procurement Bans Polystyrene
It looks like the days of Polystyrene are over in the US. Another US city restricts the use of polystyrene following the move of Washington state earlier this year.
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Dupont and ADM to Produce BioPlastics for Soft Drinks Bottles
ADM and DuPont launched a pilot project to produce recyclable bio-based FDME (furan dicarboxylic methyl ester), a polymer that could replace fossil-fuel plastics in the future.
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USDA-NIFA funds University of Tennessee for Plastics Development from Lignin
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) and the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) coordinate and co-fund the Integrated Bio-refinery Optimization (IBO) program.
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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, a molecule traditionally made from fossil carbon sources, petroleum or natural gas.
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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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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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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 PLA supplier in commercial quantities, NatureWorks, based in Minnesota (USA), is pushing its leadership position forward.
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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 the precursor molecules of bioplastics as their commercial development and availability at affordable cost is paramount to the availability of downstream bioplastics.
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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 on May 1st in the US, one of the few countries in the world not celebrating labor day on that day.
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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 up because of its biofuel production and expanding bio-based chemicals industry.
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Biggest Biopolymers Market
North America is the biggest market for biopolymers and consumes 1/3 of the total global demand states RnR Market Research report issued in April 2014.
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Carbon Fiber from Biomass
Next breakthrough: carbon fiber from Biomass. En route to a totally sustainable airplane!
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