In Illinois, Elevance Renewable Sciences and Clariant International announced that they have completed an agreement to cooperate within the field of renewable products. The companies are coupling Clariant’s market knowledge and formulation development capabilities with Elevance’s renewable products and patented process technology to commercialize new renewable additives for plastics. Elevance uses olefin metathesis to create […]
In Wisconsin, Virent says that producing PET from waste such as corn stover and pine residuals is more difficult than from sugars but that it can be done. The company makes paraxylene, a PET feedstock, from sugars. Expectations are that its commercial scale facility will be online in late 2014.
In Nebraska, NatureWorks reported a major capital investment project at its Blair manufacturing facility for the production of new grades of high-performance Ingeo biopolymers as well as a new generation of lactide intermediates. Samples of the new polymers and lactide intermediates will be available next year with commercial sales commencing by 2013. NatureWorks states their […]
In Missouri, the United Soybean Board has teamed with soybean boards in nine states to promote soybean products at county fairs from paint to biodiesel for carnival rides under its Green Ribbon reimbursement program. Soybean-based insulation foam will even be used for pilot testing the materials for use in urinals.
In California, LS9 announced it will carry out a second phase of research with Chevron Technology Ventures. This program is directed at further improving LS9’s platform technology to produce specific pure hydrocarbon products. This second phase follows Chevron’s initial testing and evaluation of LS9’s technology solution. The terms of the funding program were not disclosed.
In Holland, AkzoNobel has acquired Integrated Botanical Technologies patented Zeta Fraction technology, which makes it possible to harvest and separate constituent parts of a living cell from any plant or marine source without requiring any solvents. An Amsterdam based producer of paints, coatings, and specialty chemicals, the Zeta Fraction platform will be used by the […]
In the Netherlands, Solvay and Avantium announced a partnership to jointly develop a next generation of green high-performance polyamides for engineering plastics. The partnership combines Solvay’s leading position in specialty polymers and Avantium’s YXY technology for producing building blocks for green materials. ‘ The companies will make a range of compositions containing Avantium’s YXY building […]
In Sweden, OrganoClick has introduced two new bio-degradable technologies. OC-biobinder which is a polysaccaride derivate biopolymer based binder product used to enhance mechanical properties of cellulose based textiles, and OrganoTex, a water repellant finish for cellulose based fabrics.
In Virginia, DARPA’s Microsystems Technology Office is launching the Living Foundries program with the goal of turning biological production into an engineering space where the only limit is the creativity of the designer. Living Foundries aims to enable on-demand production of new and high-value materials, devices and capabilities for the Department of Defense and establish […]
In Brazil, LS9 announced the opening of LS9 Brasil Biotecnologia in Sao Paulo. The new office will be led by Lucila de Avila as Managing Director for all LS9 business activities in Brazil and South America and Michael Rinelli, Director, responsible for Business Development and Government Relations. “The opening of this office is another milestone […]
