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Nov 26, 2020 | Industry News
Braskem and Denmark-based Haldor Topsoe have announced that they achieved their first-ever demo-scale production of bio-based monoethylene glycol (MEG). MEG is a raw material for PET (polyethylene...
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Nov 4, 2020 | Industry News
Researchers from JAIST and U-Tokyo have successfully developed the white-biotechnological conversion from cellulosic biomass into aromatic polymers having the highest thermodegradation of all the...
Nov 3, 2020 | Industry News
Products made from bio-based plastics must undergo the same testing procedures as conventional plastic products to access the market of the European Union (EU). Plastics intended to be certified as...
Oct 29, 2020 | Industry News
Nordmann assumes responsibility for sales and marketing of the Biofibre product range in a large number of European countries. Biofibre was founded in 2011 and produces Biofibre® granules. The...
Oct 27, 2020 | Industry News
ReSolute, the Flagship EU project focused on creating a new, sustainably-sourced, safer alternative to traditional, fossil-based solvents is launched. The project will build a flagship plant to...
Oct 22, 2020 | Product News
UBE has launched glycerine carbonate, a mostly bio-based hydroxyl-functional carbonate that can be used in several applications as a raw material or active solvent. The newly obtained glycerine...
Oct 12, 2020 | Industry News
NIPPON SHOKUBAI and RIKEN CSRS bioplastic research team have succeeded in developing an efficient polymerization system and high-performance polymers for hardly polymerizable monomers, derived from...
Oct 9, 2020 | Industry News
ORNL scientists have modified a single microbe to simultaneously digest five of the most abundant components of lignocellulosic biomass, a big step forward in the development of a cost-effective...
Oct 7, 2020 | Industry News
Cargill and Virent explore the production of renewable resources and evaluates the use of Cargill’s corn dextrose as a feedstock to Virent’s BioForming® technology for the production of...
Sep 30, 2020 | Industry News
Borealis, Borouge and ITOCHU jointly announced that they have the strategic intent to jointly evaluate how to enable uptake of renewable polypropylene (PP) in the Japanese market. Borealis’...