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16 September 201514 September 2015

100% renewable – making bio-plastics real

The Digest’s 2015 8-Slide Guide to the Coca-Cola Plant Bottle

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15 September 201512 September 2015

Bioenergy Out: Why bioenergy should not be included in the next EU Renewable Energy Directive

NGO's claiming EU for upscaling energy classes for just stated aim of reducing CO₂ emissions

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Potenziale biogener Rest- und Abfallstoffe für eine nachhaltige Energie- und Rohstoffbereitstellung

DBFZ und FNR stellen Meta-Studie vor – Waldrestholz, Stroh und Gülle/Mist sind die wesentlichen ungenutzten Potenziale

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Enerkem raises C$152.6 million in financings

Company initiated the production of biomethanol from non-recyclable household garbage at the Alberta Biofuels full-scale facility in Edmonton, Canada

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BiNa research platform launched

Project is part of the ‘Sustainable Management’ initiative funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research and coordinated by IfBB

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Preliminary programme of this year’s European Bioplastics Conference announced

10th edition of the conference will take place on 5/6 November 2015 in Berlin

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Global Bioenergies has joined aireg – Aviation Initiative for Renewable Energy in Germany e.V.

Global Bioenergies joins aireg to push the jet fuel application of its isobutene process

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Global Bioenergies hat sich der Aviation Initiative for Renewable Energy in Germany e.V.  angeschlossen

Global Bioenergies schließt sich aireg an um die Kerosinanwendung seines Isobutenverfahrens voranzutreiben

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Marcel van Berkel talks to Il Bioeconomista

An interview with the Chief Commercial Officer of GFBiochemicals

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Silphie als Silomaisalternative

Eine Bestandsaufnahme aus Forschung und Praxis

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The New Tobacco Road: a path beyond smoking for America’s traditional cash crop

Tobacco’s been re-thought, re-engineered and re-invented as a platform for sustainable, low-carbon fuels, and green chemicals – who’s doing what, where and how?

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14 September 201526 November 2015

New High Biocontent Biopolymers

Some of the pioneering big players and their hits

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Solar energy and CO2 utilization could cover humankind’s energy and raw material needs

The global military budget of only a few years would be enough to switch the world’s electric power supplies to solar energy use

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Solarenergie und CO2-Nutzung können Energie- und Rohstoffprobleme der Menschheit lösen

Der weltweite Militärhaushalt weniger Jahre würde genügen, um die globale Stromversorgung auf die Nutzung von Solarenergie umzustellen

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Cost-effective catalyst converts CO2 into natural gas

Leiden researchers found cheap catalyst for electrocatalytic reduction of carbon dioxide to carbon monoxide and methane

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Technavio Says the Growing Focus on Bio-based Products Will Uplift the Global Advanced Phase Change Material Market Through 2019

Report highlighting the continuous innovation in the global advanced phase-change materials market

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Fungi tweaked to boost industrial enzymes

Mutants of a common fungus produce endoxylanase enzymes twice as potent as the original strain

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New tool to assess bioplastic packaging

Developed by German Association of Ecological Food Producers

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Gefüllt, gefaltet, aufgelöst – dieser Löffel ist anders

Schon jetzt Nachfrage: Patentierter Greenspoon sucht Investoren

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Balancing the bioeconomy: supporting biofuels and bio-based materials in public policy

New paper suggests a cost-effective public policy strategy

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Stable copper-based oxidation catalysts to obtain e.g. phenol as precursor for synthetics or to produce oxygen detectors

The new copper-oxygen adduct complexes for the first time are thermally stable at room temperature (and above) as well as in oxygen-containing atmosphere

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Stabile Oxidationskatalysatoren auf Kupferbasis zur Gewinnung von u.a. Phenol als Ausgangsstoff für Kunststoffe oder zur Produktion von Sauerstoff-Detektoren

Die neuen Kupfer-Sauerstoff-Adduktkomplexe sind erstmalig auch bei Raumtemperatur (und darüber) sowie in sauerstoffhaltiger Atmosphäre thermisch stabil

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Second Corbion plant approved to produce L-Lactic Acid for biocidal products in Europe

Corbion has announced that a second of its production plants for L-Lactic acid received approved supplier status under the Biocidal Products Regulation (EU) No 528/2012, and as such it products can be used in biocidal products

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Sinar Mas Group mulls plans to start producing bioplastic

The company is looking at business opportunities for palm oil-based bioplastic goods

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11 September 201526 November 2015

Bioplastics as strong contenders in the market

The pursuit of environmentally materials has been growing considerably

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Green public procurement in France

Consulting companies Bio by Deloitte and Nomadéis have been mandated to carry out a study about the biobased products market

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EU-weite Konsultation zur Reform der EU-Agrarstatistik

EU-Kommission plant Modernisierung der Rechtsgrundlagen zur Erhebung statistischer Daten

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Minister Rehn: Wood construction is part of bioeconomy development

Example set by the state and municipalities plays a central role in furthering wood construction

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On the Move in the Advanced Bioeconomy: GFBiochemicals, Faegre Baker Daniels, American Coalition for Ethanol, Global Bioenergies

The Biofuels Digest's highlighting elections of honoured experts

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Russische GS Group nimmt WPC-Anlage in Betrieb

Nach Schätzungen werden in Russland jährlich etwa 20.000 t WPC-Produkte abgesetzt

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Revolution® – “Glare control fabrics made from plants”

New material made by M + N Textiles is the first sunscreen fabric in the world awarded with Cradle to Cradle Certified^TM Gold

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How to Turn an Old Sofa into Biofuel

A Dutch initiative explores methods on how to use solid urban waste to produce liquid biofuels and biochemicals

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Corbion and Perstorp launch jointly developed lactide caprolactone co-polymer for hot melt adhesives

Unique long-term partnership brings more sustainable materials to the adhesives market and beyond

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World’s Largest Producer Of Industrial Enzymes Comes Out Swinging For Biofuel

CT Exclusive Interview with Novozymes CEO Peder Holk Nielsen

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Die Natur auf der linken Spur

Kunststoffe-Umfrage im September/Oktober: Welchen Nutzen haben Biokunststoffe im Auto?

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10 September 201510 September 2015

The Role of Biowaste in the Emerging Circular Economy

ECN Positon Statement on CE, 19 August 2015

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Study: Seeing the forest and the trees, all 3 trillion of them

Approach combines ground-based surveys with satellite imaging to find higher density than anticipated

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Slower melting ice cream in pipeline

Scientists found new protein from friendly food bacteria that could enable ice creams to keep frozen for longer

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Closing the loop on the ground: 10 EU projects working towards a circular economy

Over the last years we have been funding a whole range of projects across Europe on recycling, upcycling, reusing and recovering materials - each of them a building block for a circular economy. Here is a selection of some of them

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Rudy Rabbinge: genetic modification has much potential but also entails risks for world food supply and the environment

Green biotechnology has to be applied in an innovative system, where discoveries cannot continually be shielded by patents

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A new Maine manufacturing strategy could turn plants into products

Emerging biobased manufacturing sector could turn into a substantial force for economic development with the right foundation

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Epicolactones – The eight-step path

LMU chemists report the first total synthesis of the natural product epicolactone, which is found in certain species of endophytic fungi

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Epicolacton – In acht Schritten zum Naturstoff

Die erste Totalsynthese von Epicolacton zeigt den biosynthetischen Ursprung des Naturstoffs und seine Nähe zum Farbstoff Purpurogallin

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Halted particleboard plant working toward pellet conversion

Next week, a full consultation report for the conversion of NEWPRO to a wood pellet plant in Smithers, British Columbia, is expected to be submitted to the Ministry of Environment

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Top 10 Low Carbon Fuels made from greenhouse gases all around you

No fossil fuel, no biomass, low carbon, no kidding

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9 September 20158 September 2015

Water heals a bioplastic

Penn State researchers team has developed a self-healing polymer inspired by the genetic code of a squid's teeth

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Spanplatten nur bedingt fürs Recycling geeignet

Bayerisches Landesamt für Umwelt (LfU) untersuchte Spanplatten vor dem Hintergrund der stofflichen Verwertung von Altholz

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More money from methane: The Digest’s 2015 8-Slide Guide to Siluria

Siluria’s oxidative coupling of methane (OCM) technology, catalytically converts methane into ethylene and water

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How The World’s Largest Steel Manufacturer Is Trying To Go Green

Partnership with LanzaTech and Primetals Technologies to convert gas waste from steel production into bio ethanol

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Fortum’s first export batch of Finnish bio-oil to E.ON in Sweden

Company's bio-oil is produced from wood-based raw material, like forest residue, wood chips or sawdust