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8 September 20166 September 2016

Henkel, BASF und Solidaridad unterstützen rund 5.500 Kleinbauern in Indonesien

5-Jahres-Projekt soll dazu beitragen, die Lebensbedingungen unabhängiger Kleinbauern auf West-Kalimantan zu verbessern

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Henkel, BASF and Solidaridad support around 5,500 smallholders in Indonesia

Project certainly contributes to improve the livelihoods of independent oil palm farmers in the province of West Kalimantan

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Global Bioenergies: IBN-One awards front-end engineering design to Technip and IPSB for the first plant converting renewable resources into isobutene

IBN-One, a subsidiary of Global Bioenergies and Cristal Union, today announced it has awarded the first engineering contract for its bio-isobutene plant to Technip and IPSB

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7 September 20165 September 2016

Demonstration project started for the conversion of woody biomass to chemicals

By a consortium of 14 European companies using EU funding under the Horizon 2020 program

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Algae as vessels for (photo)synthetic biology

Algae-powered photosynthetic houses or algae-made commercial products might not be very far from reality

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MIT News: Hacking microbes

Startup’s engineered yeast helps clients produce fragrances and flavors more efficiently

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Seventh Generation embraces bioplastics

Company taking another step toward its vision of having all of its packaging made from recycled or bio-based materials by 2020

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Schmidt: Nachwachsende Rohstoffe als Chance

Bundeskabinett unterstreicht Fortschritte im Bereich Bioökonomie

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6 September 201625 October 2016

Save the date: 10th International Conference on Bio-based Materials

10 - 11 May 2017, Maternushaus, Cologne, Germany

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Es ist soweit: Die zehnte „International Conference on Bio-based Materials“

10. - 11. Mai 2017 im Maternushaus, Köln

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Making Economic Use of a Billion Tons of Biomass

Newest DOE Billion Ton Report is an assessment of both progress to date and remaining challenges to building a biobased economy

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Engineered Bacterium Turns Carbon Dioxide into Methane Fuel

If scaled up, batches of bacteria could convert CO₂ emissions into fuel, in a single step

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Cargill expanding in cosmetics and personal care

New global general manager, Tony Jaillot will lead the business focused on plant-based, sustainably-sourced ingredients

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Hemp, Flax Growing as Auto Plastics Building Blocks

Researchers worldwide developing tough materials from hemp fibers for the automotive sector

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Technip and METabolic EXplorer sign agreement to evaluate combined polymer technology

Evaluation to include a technical and commercial review with the goal of bringing a bundled technology package to the market

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Toyobo and Avantium partner on PEF polymerization and PEF films

Toyobo and Avantium have jointly developed thin films made from PEF

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5 September 20161 September 2016

Ecostrat releases white paper on woody biomass procurement

Publication providing an overview of five common mistakes in wood procurement and how to fix them

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WWF-Studie zu deutschem Palmöl-Ersatz: Kein Palmöl ist auch keine Lösung

Größerer Flächenbedarf. Mehr Treibhausgasemissionen. Weniger Biologische Vielfalt

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Will Intrexon’s methane gambit transform the world?

Deployment of industrial biotechnology at scale suggests that it is a complex science, with many factors at play, and before bold confidence is achieved, bold questions need to be asked

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Global Green and Bio Solvents Market, 2016–2020

Technavio research has shown that the global green and biobased solvents market will grow at a CAGR of more than 8% during the forecast period

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Bringing artificial enzymes closer to nature

Swiss scientists develop a ruthenium-based artificial metalloenzyme to produce novel high added-value chemicals

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Künstliche Enzyme werden immer «natürlicher»

Schweizer Wissenschaftler entwickeln rutheniumbasierten künstlichen Metalloenzym zur Herstellung neuer Chemikalien mit hohem Mehrwert

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Enerkem’s facility in Edmonton becomes the first ISCC certified plant in the world to convert municipal solid waste into biomethanol

This reputable third-party certification confirms that Enerkem meets high ecological and social sustainability requirements

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2 September 201631 August 2016

Integrating Microalgal Production with Industrial Outputs – Reducing Process Inputs and Quantifying the Benefits

Level of heat integration has a significant effect on the environmental performance and economics of microalgal processes

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BRAIN, AnalytiCon and Roquette sign a strategic partnership for the development of next generation natural sweetening solutions

The goal of the DOLCE consortium is to develop cutting-edge natural sweet taste enhancers, addressing the requirements of global customers

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BRAIN, AnalytiCon und Roquette unterzeichnen eine strategische Partnerschaft zur Entwicklung einer neuen Generation natürlicher Süßstoffe

DOLCE-Allianz soll Brückenschlag von innovativen Süßungsmitteln in verschiedenen Segmenten im Bereich Lebensmittel und Getränke ermöglichen

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Biorenewables Megatrends: The Digest’s 2016 Multi-Slide Guide to the advanced bioeconomy’s progress

Ron Cascone from Nexant Corp. gave incisive slides on the state of commercialization

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Trading on a future in industrial hemp

The seed and oil commodities that will be the basis for contracts traded on their platform are used in plastic, food and oil products

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India’s oil marketing companies give up on jatropha biodiesel definitively

Many believed that jatropha could be successfully grown in dry wastelands without irrigation

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1 September 201631 August 2016

Empty Fruit Bunch from Date Palm Industries – A Sustainable Resource for Producing Biofuels and Industrial Solvents

EFB contains polymeric sugars that can be converted to biofuel by enzymatic hydrolysis and microbial fermentation

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PHA: promising, versatile, biodegradable

All members of the PHA family are biodegradable - not just in industrial composting equipment, but also in the soil and in freshwater and seawater

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100 Percent Compostable Single Serve Coffee Pod Wins International Innovation Award

SPI Announces Club Coffee as Winner of its Innovation in Bioplastics Award

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Where’s butanol, or other substitutes for gasoline besides ethanol?

Biofuels Digest trying to find answers about why there are so few technologies and so little commercial progress on gasoline substitution, excepting ethanol

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Bioindustrial Innovation Canada (BIC) Growing with New Employment Opportunities

New $27 Million Centre for Commercialization of Sustainable Chemistry Innovation (COMM SCI)

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U.S. Commerce Department Invests More Than $4 Million In Maine, Deploys Interagency Team To Help Strengthen State’s Forest Economy

EDA will deploy an Economic Development Assessment Team (EDAT) in eastern Maine to evaluate new and existing economic strategies

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31 August 201629 August 2016

Building the Case for Bioplastics

SPI’s Bioplastics Division released their quarterly Plastics Market Watch report on bioplastics

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Anti-Schmutz-Film aus Pilzproteinen

Forscher entwickeln kostengünstige und gesundheitlich unbedenkliche Alternative zur Textilausrüstung

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Edible food packaging made from milk proteins (video)

USDA scientists are developing an environmentally friendly film made of casein

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Microbeads. Reviled, yes. Useful, yes. What’s the alternative?

Problem of environment accumulated microplastic spheres is attracting significant attention from lawmakers around the world

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Breakthrough in the synthetic replication of composite-material structures found in Mother of pearl

A team of researchers from Konstanz and Hefei (China) synthetically replicate the mineralisation process that takes place in natural nacre

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Natürliche Perlmuttstruktur, künstlich hergestellt

Forscherteam aus Konstanz und Hefei (China) gelingt die künstliche Mineralisation von natürlicher Perlmuttstruktur

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30 August 201630 August 2016

First commercial event specialized for the supply chain of herbal industry

MAP EXPO 2017 – Global marketplace for medicinal & aromatic plants

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Biofuel firm’s plans for Grangemouth

Celtic Renewables seeks planning permission for commercial-scale biobutanol plant

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Reconnect with nature – the new sustainability

Two big personal care companies offering new terms of convenience to their customers

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Process could make key biodegradable polymer stronger and longer-lasting

Brown University researchers have shown that by treating PLA at various temperatures and pressures, they can induce a new polymer phase in the material

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A breakthrough in algae harvesting

Global Algae Innovations offering membrane system that could use just 1% of the energy needed to run a centrifuge

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BiobasedWorld – only two weeks left to exhibit in Cologne

September 15 is the due date for those who want to exhibit at the premier trade show for the biobased industries 15-16 February 2017 in Cologne, Germany

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BiobasedWorld – Sie haben noch zwei Wochen um auszustellen

Der 15. September ist der Stichtag für alle, die am 15./16. Februar 2017 bei der ersten Messe für die biobasierte Wirtschaft in Köln ausstellen wollen

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29 August 201630 August 2016

nova’s experts introduced: Elke Breitmayer

Life Cycle Assessments, Economics & Resources

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Researchers identify possible catalyst for converting methane to methanol at room temperature

The active site of low-temperature methane hydroxylation in iron-containing zeolites