With the launch of the Biochemical Technology Leadership Roundtable (BTLR), the ACS GCI seeks to provide a forum for pre-competitive industry collaboration. Building on the American Chemical Society’s roundtable model, the BTLR will be devoted to catalyzing and enabling the bio-based and renewable chemicals economy by promoting the underlying science required for the development and implementation of bio-based and renewable chemical technologies.

The scope includes technologies used to produce chemicals and products through biological transformations of bio-based and renewable materials, e.g., from bio-based feedstocks such as crop biomass, oil seed plants and algae, but also other renewable sources such as waste carbon dioxide and methane.

ACS’ David Constable gave this illuminating overview of the BTLR’s promise and progress at ABLC 2018 in Washington DC.

Catalyzing biobased chemicals: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to the Biochemical Technology Leadership Roundtable