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Posted by Doris de Guzman November 18, 2020 This is very interesting news and maybe could become a trend in US chemical sales going forward (just like Alibaba in China). Archer Daniels Midland s (ADM) Renewable Chemicals business announced that it is significantly expanding its pool of prospective customers by offering some of its best-selling products for sale via e-commerce giant Amazon. In May Continue reading California-based biotechnology company, Bolt Threads announced the creation of a consortium with iconic global companies including adidas, Kering, lululemon, and Stella McCartney who have secured exclusive access to its innovative material, Mylo made from infinitely renewable mycelium the branching underground structure of mushrooms but looks and feels like leather. The brand Continue reading Finnish pulp, paper and forest products company Stora Enso announced the launch of its Accelerator Program that is looking for start-up companies, growth companies, and disruptive entrepreneurs with current offerings innew material solutions, supply chain technologies, process optimization, analytics, IoT, design, manufacturing, machine learning and artificial intelligencethat can provide solutions to reduce or eliminate plastic Continue reading My apologies for the lack of posting as I m inundated with webinars and online conferences in the past month (along with other deadlines). However, I cannot let this interesting news (thanks to Biofuel Digest) about an online auction of unused process equipment from the former Verdezyne s VerdePalm project in Johor, Malaysia. While it saddens me Continue reading thyssenkrupp actually announced this news earlier than the recent announcements from NatureWorks and Total Corbion PLA but we re definitely seeing a theme here on PLA capacity expansions worldwide. According to thyssenkrupp, its plant engineering business recently won another order to build a bioplastics plant based on its patented PLAneo technology. The new facility will be Continue reading Just a few hours after I posted the NatureWorks news on the expansion of its US PLA production, Total Corbion PLA, a 50/50 joint venture between Total and Corbion, announced yesterday its intention to build its second PLA plant with a capacity ramping up to 100,000 tons per annum. The new plant is planned to Continue reading I ve been hearing that demand for biodegradable/compostable plastics have been very good this year, and PLA (polylactic acid) resins have been benefiting from this growing demand. NatureWorks, the world s largest PLA manufacturer, announced this week that it will increase its production of Ingeo (PLA) biomaterials portfolio by 10% by installing additional monomer purification technology at Continue reading The nova-Institute report commissioned by the Bio-based Industries Consortium (BIC) noted that theanalysis of the 2017 Eurostat data shows that the turnover of the total bioeconomy*, including food and beverages and the primary sectors of agriculture and forestry, results in just over 2.4 trillion EUR in the EU-28, meaning an increase by 25% since 2008. Continue reading Several biotechnology and specialty chemical companies are ramping up marketing and commercialisation of microbial-based surfactants especially glycolipids like rhamnolipid and sophorolipids as fermentation, extraction and purification processes for these surfactants have vastly improved compared to even a few years back. Production yields of these glycolipids have reportedly improved and premiums over fossil-based surfactants have also Continue reading This is big news, especially in the surfactants market. Consumer Products Company Unilever announced this week that it will convert 100% of its fossil-based raw materials in its cleaning and laundry product formulations with renewable or recycled carbon. This move is set to transform the sustainability of the company s global cleaning and laundry brands including Continue reading Led by the Recycling Partnership and World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the collaborative U.S. Plastics Pact was launched as part of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation s global Plastics Pact network. The U.S. Plastics Pact is an ambitious initiative to unify diverse public-private stakeholders across the plastics value chain to rethink the way we design, use, and reuse Continue reading I first saw this article from an Australian website, Broadstreet.com, about a small company called Great Wrap which is selling online a compostable cling wrap that is reportedly certified by DIN Certco in Germany. The cling wraps sell for AUS$8 for a 30-metre roll (I wonder if they ship to the US market ). The company Continue reading I ve been following the Biogenic CO2 Coalition for the past year which was formed by several agricultural trade groups to persuade the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to refrain from regulating CO2 emissions from the use of annual crops the same way as CO2 from fossil fuels. For clarification, biogenic CO2 emissions, according to the Continue reading Biorefineries for producing renewable diesel and associated hydrocarbons have been popping up like mushrooms all over the world and it is more interesting when oil companies such as Total in Italy and now Phillips 66 in the USA are converting their old crude oil refineries into biorefineries. Phillips 66, a diversified energy manufacturing and logistics Continue reading Novvi LLC and Chevron both announced the successful start-up of its Deer Park, TX plant, where it is manufacturing and marketing 100% renewable base oils for the lubricants industry, and 100% renewable process oils for polymer, adhesives, and personal care industries. Novvi said it added key processing steps and debottlenecked capabilities to make the Deer Continue reading From time to time, I covered several R D news coming from the US Department of Energy s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). One of these was the partnership between LanzaTech and PNNL on their ethanol-to-fuel technology R D, which I believed, started in 2010. PNNL also has a chemocatalytic technology to convert ethanol to butadiene in a Continue reading I am not that familiar with the chlor-alkali industry aside from the information that it uses electrochemical processing which is getting to be popular as well in its potential to produce renewable carbon-based chemicals (example is Avantium s Volta technology). Electrochemical processing can use renewable energy sources like solar, thermal or wind power but the problem Continue reading A new survey from Genomatica shows that sustainability has moved from a fringe preference into a core imperative across American life even during the COVID-19 pandemic. Genomatica conducted this research using an online survey prepared by Method Research and distributed by Dynata among n=2,000 adults in the United States. Data was collected from June 16 Continue reading The Dutch Social Economic Council (SER) published this month its report: Biomass in Balance, a sustainability framework for the high value application of bio-feedstocks (in Dutch) which advises the Dutch government about biomass sustainability and giving a recommendation that biomass should be use more as bio-feedstock (chemicals and materials production) instead of bioenergy and fuel Continue reading I have to admit that I have limited familiarity with the investment and financial markets (and how they work) but it is interesting to observe the growing trend of investment firms and banks tying their long-term business strategies with environment-friendly projects and financing that have measurable and beneficial social and environmental impacts while earning commercially-appealing Continue reading Here s a small interview article with Neste s Mercedes Alonso, Executive VP Renewable Polymers and Chemicals, under the World Bioeconomy Forum s (WCBEF) Five Minutes With .series. The Green Chemicals Blog is a media partner of the WCBEF virtual event which will be broadcasted live from Ruka, Finland on 10th September 2020. The present moment is one of unprecedented challenge; for the world of engineering thermoplastics, there has been a chance to serve the needs of key workers, providing materials for protective masks, shields, and gowns. Details of some of these developments are given in the latest Engineering Thermoplastics Chemical Business Focus newsletter, which focuses on how Continue reading The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) selected eight projects totaling over $5 million to conduct research and development (R D) needed to accelerate the U.S. biomanufacturing sector. Part of the Agile BioFoundry (ABF) consortium, these projects will leverageNational Laboratory capabilitiesto address challenges in biomanufacturing. DOE has selected the following projects: C16 Biosciences, of New York, NY, Continue reading This is interesting news given the rising focus on the use of renewable electricity as well as electrolysis processing in chemical manufacturing. Major petrochemical players, Dow and Shell, recently announced their partnership in developing electric cracking technology specifically for use to electrify ethylene steam crackers. Today s steam crackers use fossil fuel combustion to heat their Continue reading The global economy came to a virtual standstill in the first half of 2020 as countries introduced lockdown measures in a bid to control the COVID-19 virus. As a result, there were fewer cars on the road and therefore less demand for fuel. This forced refineries for both crude oil and biofuels to turn production Continue reading Since the start of 2020, we have seen Brent crude oil futures fall from just under $70/bbl to $23/bbl. MEG values followed, plummeting from $608/ton to $350/ton cfr in early April. And although there has been a rebound, relatively low Brent crude prices of around $40/bbl still prevail, along with very low MEG values in Continue reading I just learned from my social media networks that today is apparently #WorldEnvironmentDay so let me share this very interesting initiative called the Great Reset launched jointly on June 3 in a virtual meeting by the World Economic Forum and HRH The Prince of Wales in response to the need for a better world in Continue reading I love summer sale and this one might hit the right spot if you re looking for the latest information on the bio-based chemicals market. My latest market report Commercialisationupdates on bio-based building blocks has also just been updated to include the immediate effects of the COVID-19 crisis. Especially in times of crisis, it is important Continue reading The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Deputy Under Secretary for Rural Development Bette Brand announced that USDA has published a final rule to expand the production of renewable chemicals and biobased manufactured products. Therule, for the first time, allows applicants forBiorefinery, Renewable Chemical, and Biobased Product Manufacturing Assistance Program (9003 Program) loansto submit applications to Continue reading Beiersdorf and Evonik have reached an agreement on a research partnership which will develop sustainable raw materials for care products, using carbon dioxide (CO2) as the starting material. One option is artificial photosynthesis technology. The idea: with the aid of electricity from solar energy and bacteria, valuable raw materials are produced with water and CO2, Continue reading Under a collaboration with the EU-funded Biobridges project, Procter and Gamble (P G) is launching a call for innovative circular and bio-based solutions for its toothbrush brands, Braun and Oral-B. For the Braun brand, the challenge is to identify an alternative bio-based, non-flammable cleaning center liquid, as well as replace the cleaning center cartridge main material Continue reading

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