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9 July 20216 July 2021

Clariant and India Glycols successfully established joint venture for renewable ethylene oxide derivatives

Serve as a leading supplier of renewable materials for home and personal care

Clariant und India Glycols haben erfolgreich ein Joint Venture für Ethylenoxid-Derivate aus erneuerbaren Rohstoffen gegründet

Positionierung als einer der führenden Lieferanten von erneuerbaren Materialien für Home- und Personal Care

Mycorena Raises SEK 77 Million in Pre-Series A Funding to Accelerate Growth and Production Scaleup

As one of the largest investments in a Nordic vegan food-tech startup, this investment round pushes the company’s total external funding to well beyond 100 MSEK

Neue EU-Regel tritt in Kraft: Diese Plastikartikel sind ab jetzt verboten

Ab diesem Samstag verschwinden diverse Kunststoffprodukte aus dem Handel. Was gibt es für Alternativen? Und was bleibt erlaubt?

Borealis acquires a minority stake in Renasci N.V. to jointly develop novel recycling solutions

EverMinds™ in action: Game-changing collaboration to accelerate plastics circularity

Agrimax formally opens two new processing facilities to create value from crop and food processing waste

Both pilot plants (biorefineries) – one in Spain and one in Italy – aim to develop and demonstrate the production of multiple, high-value bio-based products from food and farming waste

“That was a fairly crazy idea”

Plasmas usually have destructive effects on enzymes – Here, they supply an enzyme with a building block for biocatalysis at the push of a button.

Zwei Tricks für die Biokatalyse

Eigentlich wirken Plasmen zerstörerisch auf Enzyme – Hier liefern sie ihnen auf Knopfdruck einen Baustein für die Biokatalyse

A ‘bio-refinery’: using the chemistry of willow trees to treat Canada’s municipal wastewater

Millions of litres of primary municipal wastewater can be treated sustainably using fast-growing willow trees while also producing renewable bioenergy and ‘green’ chemicals, researchers find

8 July 20219 September 2021

Plastipak’s Clean Tech and BioteCH4 form Unique Partnership to Power Recycling Operation

With this new partnership, the electricity generated through the CHP process at BioteCH4 is connected directly to Clean Tech to power the recycling process

Erneuerbare Treibstoffe für Flugzeuge: Technisch machbar, aber noch teuer

Wasserstoff, Treibstoff aus Holz, Algen oder Reststoffen sind ein Thema in der Luftfahrt. Sie werden als Kerosin-Ersatz durchgespielt und getestet

Carbon-negative bioplastic made from air, invasive plants turned into yoga mats, cultured chicken progress, renewable fiber innovations, and more

The Digest’s Top 8 Innovations for the week of July 2nd

BIOSWITCH research analyses Irish and Dutch consumer perspectives of bio-based products

The results show that Irish consumers have a slightly more positive perception of bio-based products than their Dutch counterpart, with 93% of the respondents from Ireland and 81% of the ones from the Netherlands indicating that they prefer to buy bio-based products instead of fossil-based ones

Meet MoEa, The Company Making Sneakers From Five Types of Sustainable Vegan Leather

Many sustainable fashion brands are now using leather alternatives made from materials like apple, pineapple, corn, cactus, or grape. But French shoe brand MoEa is taking things a step further by using all five

7 July 202112 July 2021

Challenging the classical view of yeast tolerance to alcohol

Contrarily to the established hypothesis that cell membranes should be rigid to resist high concentrations of ethanol, an outstandingly tolerant yeast presents a more fluid plasma membrane structure, according to a study published in Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Bayer Carbon Initiative: Bayer launches its decarbonization program for agriculture in Europe

Program kicks off with more than 25 farmers across seven countries in the EU and beyond: France, Spain, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, United Kingdom and Ukraine

Bayer Carbon Initiative: Bayer startet sein Dekarbonisierungsprogramm für die Landwirtschaft in Europa

Über 25 Landwirte aus Frankreich, Spanien, Belgien, Dänemark, Deutschland, Großbritannien und der Ukraine sind beim Start dabei

The EU Chemicals Industry is a frontrunner in the clean hydrogen economy

Latest data from the European Commission shows that the EU chemicals industry is projected to be one of the industrial champions in the use of clean hydrogen

BIO4AFRICA, a new European project to support the deployment of the bioeconomy in Africa, kicks off

Development of value chains and grassroots solutions through a circular approach will encourage the use of local resources and the diversification of farmers’ income

Danish partnership receives support from the Danish Energy Technology Development and Demonstration Program (EUDP) for world’s first industrial dynamic green ammonia demonstration plant

The ammonia plant will interface to a green hydrogen solution developed by Vestas, integrating electrolysis with wind and solar in one smart control system

Jayashree Textiles, Dupont Biomaterials Collaborate To Launch New Sustainable Fabric Collection

The collaboration meets the needs of a growing demand for sustainable fashion options

Atmospheric CO2 is “our biggest resource” says carbon-negative plastic brand Made of Air

Berlin startup Made of Air has developed a bioplastic made of forest and farm waste that sequesters carbon and can be used for everything from furniture to building facades

6 July 20211 July 2021

Desertec 3.0: Kann Afrika billigen Öko-Wasserstoff liefern?

Gute Aussichten auf billige Importe werden durch einen vom Forschungszentrum Jülich interaktiv erstellten "H2-Potenzial-Atlas" Westafrika geschürt

Biodegradable or not biodegradable, that is the question

The EU-definition in the Single-use Plastics Directive (SUPD) does not refer to what has been presented on the market as oxo-degradable, sometimes even mistakenly been promoted as oxo-biodegradable

German Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier visits UPM Biochemicals Project in Leuna

UPM will support the region's economic development and the generation of the green chemistry excellence cluster in Leuna

Bundespräsident Frank-Walter Steinmeier besucht die UPM Bioraffinerie in Leuna

UPM Bioraffinerie in Leuna wird eine Schlüsselinvestition für Leuna und Sachsen-Anhalt und steht im Herzen eines entstehenden Clusters für die Produktion nachhaltiger, erneuerbarer Chemikalien

5 July 202113 July 2021

Save the Date: Conference on CO2-based Fuels and Chemicals

23-24 March 2022, Hybrid event – Cologne, Germany

CHASSY – Model-Based Construction and Optimisation of Versatile Chassis Yeast Strains for Production of Valuable Lipid and Aromatic Compounds

CHASSY, a €5.6M Horizon 2020 Industrial Leadership project aimed at unlocking the full potential of yeasts as cell factories for production of high value compounds, makes a substantial contribution to the development of the bioeconomy.

Gunilla Piltz (M.Sc)

Circular Economy and acceptance of bio-based products

SVEVIND and Kazakh Invest National Company JSC sign a memorandum of understanding

SVEVIND and Kazakh Invest National Company JSC sign a memorandum of understanding relating to giant green hydrogen facilities amounting 30 gigawatt in Kazakhstan

Ohne Start-ups keine Bioökonomie

Wettbewerb „PlanB – Biobasiert.Business.Bayern.“ zeichnet grüne Geschäftsideen aus

Hersteller gesucht: Flexible Faserplatte aus Stroh kann umweltfreundlich ohne Kunstharze hergestellt werden

Zur Markteinführung dieser innovativen Faserplatte sucht TLB nun im Auftrag der Universität Stuttgart Firmenpartner, die eine solche Platte herstellen können

Eastman collaborating with SAP on GreenToken to track recycled content

Collaboration will leverage the blockchain-based platform of GreenToken to provide visibility through the value chain of sustainable products, such as the specialty plastics produced with Eastman’s molecular recycling technologies

The World BioEconomy Forum launches world’s first news app for the global circular bioeconomy

The new app is available for both Android and IOS devices, will alert users to the very latest breaking news and developments

Siemens Energy to electrify first-of-its-kind biorefinery in Germany

The biorefinery will be the first industrial-scale facility of its type ever built. It will apply novel process innovations to sustainably convert 100 percent wood into bio-based MEG, MPG as well as RFF

Siemens Energy elektrifiziert neuartige Bioraffinerie in Deutschland

Die Bioraffinerie ist die erste für den Betrieb in industriellem Maßstab konzipierte Anlage ihrer Art

2 July 202129 June 2021

Fabbri group nabs BIOPOLYMER Innovation Award 2021

Italian company was recognized for the development of its Nature Fresh film: the world’s first bioplastic compostable cling film for automatic food packaging

BIOPOLYMER Award: Drei Gewinner aus zwei Ländern mit einer Gemeinsamkeit

Fabbri Group wurde für die Entwicklung seines "Nature Fresh" Films ausgezeichnet, der weltweit ersten kompostierbaren Verpackungsfolie für Automaten

Danimer Scientific Completes Debottlenecking of Kentucky Facility to Upscale Production of Biodegradable Materials

Optimized processes and equipment will enable output of 20 million pounds of finished product annually to meet global demand for polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA), a biodegradable alternative to petrochemical plastic

Tenside mit regionalen Pflanzenölen für nachhaltige Haushalts- und Körperpflegemittel

Meyer-Galow-Preis für Wirtschaftschemie 2020 geht an Edgar Endlein

Controlled degradation with 3D-printed enzyme-embedded plastics

Printed films made by the research team broke down in aqueous conditions with the rate of degradation dependent on the amount of enzyme added to the plastic

Braskem developed world’s first renewable-source polyethylene wax

Produced from sugarcane ethanol, the new solution entails lower CO2 footprint, is recyclable and has applications in multiple markets

How the EU’s Renewable Energy Directive risks destroying Europe’s forests

The majority of biomass comes from the EU’s forests – and a majority of that from whole trees, tops and branches

1 July 20216 July 2021

nova Price Indices (June 2021)

Developments of raw material prices over time

Umschwung für die chemische Industrie: VIVALDI verwandelt CO2-Emissionen in nachhaltige Bioprodukte

Die Europäische Union hat 7 Millionen Euro für das VIVALDI-Projekt bewilligt, um die biobasierte Industrie in einen neuen, umweltfreundlicheren und wettbewerbsfähigeren Sektor zu verwandeln. Die BOKU erhielt dabei den zweitgrößten Anteil am Projektvolumen

Arkema launches a new renewable PVDF grade for batteries

Arkema announces a major innovation with the launch of its new sustainable Kynar® PVDF range. These new grades will claim 100% renewable attributed carbon derived from crude tall oil bio-feedstock, according to a mass balance approach

TU Chemnitz und Mercedes-Benz kooperieren im Leichtbau

Technologien des Forschungsclusters MERGE der TU Chemnitz legten Grundstein für Materialerfindung, die nun in der neuen Mercedes-Benz S-Klasse zur seriellen Anwendung kommt

Vattenfall to sell 49.5% of the offshore wind farm Hollandse Kust Zuid to BASF

Once fully operational, the wind farm will be the largest offshore wind farm in the world with 140 wind turbines and a total installed capacity of 1.5 Gigawatt

Vattenfall verkauft 49,5 Prozent des Offshore-Windparks Hollandse Kust Zuid an BASF

Nach vollständiger Inbetriebnahme wird der Windpark mit 140 Windturbinen und einer installierten Gesamtleistung von 1,5 Gigawatt der größte Offshore-Windpark der Welt sein

Chemical Contamination – Detoxifiers from the landfill

Hiding in the midst of trash are valuable bacteria that can degrade environmental toxins

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