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18 March 202014 March 2020

Mehr als nur Strom: Mit den richtigen Rahmenbedingungen können Biogasanlagen eine Menge für die Gesellschaft leisten

THG-Einsparung, Nährstoffmanagement, Gewässer- und Artenschutz - Aktuelle Studie quantifiziert Zusatzleistungen und benennt Potenziale

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Kelheim Fibres achieves low risk in first CanopyStyle Audit

Company’s current supply chain is confirmed as low risk of sourcing wood from Ancient and Endangered Forests

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Kelheim Fibres erreicht „Low Risk“ im ersten CanopyStyle-Audit

Derzeitige Lieferkette des Unternehmens wird als „low risk“ im Hinblick auf die Verwendung von Holz aus alten und bedrohten Wäldern beurteilt

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Nova Pangaea partners with Pakistan’s JS Group to licence biofuel technology

Deal includes a licence for the use of NPT’s REFNOVA end-to-end fractionation process to turn sugar cane bagasse into valuable sugars and chemicals

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Making straws that don’t suck for the environment

Straws made from cellulose, the major component of trees and plants, don't lose their shape or collapse in on themselves when in use

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Water splitting observed on the nanometer scale

New investigation method provides fundamental insights into electrocatalytic water splitting under operating conditions

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Wasserspaltung im Nanobereich beobachtet

Neue Untersuchungsmethode ermöglicht grundlegende Einblicke in die elektrokatalytische Wasserspaltung unter Realbedingungen

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Grüne Wasserstoffproduktion in Biogasanlagen

Ziel der Forscher ist es, diesen »grünen« Wasserstoff in industriellem Maßstab in Biogasanlagen zu erzeugen

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17 March 202018 March 2020

Aviation fuels, CO2-based fuels and chemicals, PtX and CCU need conferences and meeting places for exchange – especially in times of the corona virus.

Unfortunately, nova won’t be able to hold the major conferences in Cologne next week due to general event bans in Germany: 1^st European Summit on CO₂-based Aviation Fuels (in cooperation with IASA), 23 March 2020 and the 8^th Conference on Carbon Dioxide as Feedstock for Fuels, Chemistry and Polymers, 24 – 25 March 2020

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Borealis producing certified renewable polypropylene at own facilities in Belgium

Company takes its commitment commonly with Neste and Henkel to the next level for advancing the circular economy, once again furthers its EverMinds™ ambitions

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Borealis: PP-Produktion aus erneuerbaren Rohstoffen aufgenommen

Unternehmen will sein Engagement für die Kreislaufwirtschaft gemeinsam mit Neste und Henkel auf die nächste Stufe bringen und seine Ziele im Rahmen von "EverMinds" fördern

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Clariant Masterbatches earn ‘OK’ certification for home and industrial composting

Certification means that the masterbatch ingredients, including the polymer carrier, will not compromise the biodegradability of the plastic products and packaging

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Video: Winterhanf wirtschaftlich verwerten: Von der Zwischenfrucht zum Textil

Als Zwischenfrucht angebaut lässt sich Winterhanf ökonomisch sinnvoll verwerten. Die Fasern sind feiner als die von Sommerhanf. Der Anbau breitet sich bereits aus

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Carbon dioxide as a raw material for the chemical industry – seeking a climate-friendly and economically viable industrial concept

BECCU project will compare a variety of processes to capture carbon dioxide from biomass use in energy production and hydrogen to be produced

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Tagungsbroschüre zum 30. Bernburger Winterseminar Arznei- und Gewürzpflanzen erschienen – Von Salbei, Kümmel, Grünhafer & Co…

Kurzfassungen der meisten Vorträge und wissenschaftliches Poster zum freien Download

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Amyris Discovers Major Breakthrough in CBD Delivery

In order for CBD to be effective in topical applications, skin penetration is a key factor

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Amyris’s sugarcane-based squalane improves CBD efficacy by 10-40x

This announcement will certainly attract CBD cream and lotion manufacturers and CBD skincare users, but exactly how big is this market?

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ABT plant ups production capacity biobased ECH to 120 kT/pa

Biobased chemical company Advanced Biochemical (Thailand) Co., Ltd. has announced a capacity increase at its plant in Map Ta Phut, Thailand

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Hydrogen energy at the root of life

Hydrogen as fuel and carbon dioxide as a building block for the origin of life

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Wasserstoff-Energie stand am Anfang des Lebens

Wasserstoff als Treibstoff und Kohlendioxid als Baustein für die Entstehung des Lebens

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16 March 202019 March 2020

PHA (Polyhydroxyalkanoates) are a class of Natural Polymers that have not been chemically modified

GO!PHA response to the Eunomia study on the plastics definition under the Directive (EU) on the reduction of the impact of certain plastic products on the environment

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Corbion Strategy Update: Advance 2025

Company has developed increasingly from an ingredients business into a solutions business

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Umweltfreundlicher Biodiesel aus Palmöl?

Universität Göttingen untersucht Auswirkungen von Palmöl-Biodiesel auf Treibhausgase

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Eco-friendly biodiesel from palm oil?

Research led by University of Göttingen questions whether palm-oil biodiesel can reduce greenhouse gas emissions

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Queensland Motor Industry Invests in Innovative Australian Tyre Recycler

Green Distillation Technologies has discovered a process that turns end-of-life tyres into high value oil, carbon and steel

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Alternative Wickelfolien für den Transport

Forschungsprojekt an der Montanuniversität Leoben will Verpackungs- und Transportkunststoffe mithilfe von bio-basiertem Plastik reduzieren

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BBIA responds to Tesco’s packaging strategy

According to a recent study published by University College London, 84% of consumers prefer to purchase products in compostable packaging

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Biocomposites

Interesting groups of biocomposites to be exhibited during MaterialDistrict Rotterdam 2020

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MIND THE GAP: Letter from Europe

We have a climate emergency, not a war emergency

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New greener process for producing cheaper biofuel

INRS researchers make biodiesel from sewage sludge and glycerol

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13 March 202010 March 2020

Lloyd’s Register helps create a new standard to tackle plastic waste

For example: The Project 'Standard will work by establishing a framework to measure the true impact of the recovery and/or recycling of waste activities

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Dürfen wir vorstellen: Luca, das E-Auto aus recycelten PET-Flaschen

Ecomotive-Team der TU Eindhoven will im Sommer 2020 mit seinem neuesten Modell auf Promotion-Tour gehen

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Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS) Market Research, Recent Trends and Growth Forecast 2025

This report is highly predictive as it holds the over all market analysis of topmost companies into the Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS) industry

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Singapore Parliament: S’pore looks to create Newoil by transforming waste plastic into alternative fuel

With successful ambitions will this move bring the Singaporean society closer to both their goals of being a zero-waste nation and a low-carbon economy

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Sind Popcorn und Stroh die besseren Dämmstoffe?

Klassische Baustoffe wie Mineralwolle, Stahl und Beton dominieren beim Hausbau. Doch die Suche nach nachhaltigeren Lösungen läuft

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Smart, compostable thin film packaging material

New biobased films from the start-up Primitives provide an oxygen barrier that outperforms petroleum-based LDPE by over 4 times, as well as bioplastic films

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Plasmen treiben die Biokatalyse an

Ein Bochumer Forschungsteam hat eine neue Methode entwickelt, katalytisch aktive Enzyme anzutreiben

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12 March 20209 March 2020

good natured Products Inc. Announces Acquisition of Shepherd Thermoforming & Packaging Inc.

Acquisition enables company to increase their production capacity and expand their plant-based packaging assortment

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Unerwartete Entdeckung: Blaualgen stellen Öl her

Studie der Universität Bonn klärt Unstimmigkeit in gängiger Lehrmeinung auf

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Introducing chemical recycling: Plastic waste becoming a resource

“Every year, Europeans generate 25 million tonnes of plastic waste, but less than 30% is collected for recycling” states the 2018 European Plastics Strategy

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Rhabarber statt Chemie: Das Autointerieur wird nachhaltiger

Recycelte und nachwachsende Rohstoffe sind in Autos nichts Neues. Doch im Gegensatz zu früher verstecken Hersteller die Öko-Materialien nicht mehr nur hinter den Konsolen. Das Kalkül ist klar

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Wood construction developing through cooperation

Interest of public in wood construction is increasing - wooden buildings have also been found to have a positive impact on the health and well-being of their users

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Sekisui Chemical: Gewinnung von Ethanol aus Kunststoffabfällen für die Produktion von Polyolefinen – Kooperation mit Sumitomo

Allianz im Bereich Kunststoffrecycling will Kunststoffabfällen für die Produktion neuer Polyolefine nutzen

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Kitchen knives with a rice-based handle

Rice composite has been designed in such a way that all material can be recycled or biodegrades

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Montreal group aims to turn industrial CO2 into sustainable aviation fuel

SAF+ consortium aims to capture CO₂ from large industrial emitters (with emissions of over 50 metric tons of CO₂ per year) and transform it into SAF

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Microbial Lipid Biotechnology to Produce Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids

Polyunsaturated fatty acids are traditionally extracted from animals and plants but alternatively can be obtained from microbes through microbial lipid biotechnology

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Unilever switches Ingman ice cream to fully renewable packaging material from Stora Enso

Unilever Finland is introducing Ingman ice cream in a newly designed 1 litre carton made of Stora Enso’s fully renewable and recyclable packaging board in early March

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11 March 20209 September 2021

Can the European Union’s kerosene demand be met by the amount of biomass produced in the EU?

The aviation summit is one day prior to the 8^th edition of the established “Conference on Carbon Dioxide as Feedstock for Fuels, Chemistry and Polymers”, 24-25 March, 2020, Cologne, Germany. In order to make participation possible despite travel limitations, both conferences are also offered as a webinar.

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Nouryon and INEOS Nitriles break ground on new facilities in Germany

INEOS will operate and maintain the new facilities as well as provide key raw materials

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Brewing greener chemicals from fermented waste

BBI JU's PERCAL project is developing novel solutions for transforming the organic part of municipal solid waste into intermediate chemicals