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13 December 201312 December 2013

Secretary Vilsack Announces Partnership to Advance Commercial Potential of Cellulosic Nanomaterial from Wood

Public-private partnership to the development of the first U.S. commercial facility producing cellulosic nanomaterial

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Heard on the Floor at Bio Pac Rim: Sapphire Energy, Philipps 66, Monsanto, Novozymes, Braskem and Genomatica unveil key tie-ups

Three Hot 30 / Hot 50 companies partner with giants in agriculture, chemicals and petroleum

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Glycerin refinery begins operations in Mount Vernon, Wash

Biodiesel distributor Whole Energy opens its new glycerin refinery in Mount Vernon, Wash

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Schnappschuss aus der Zentrale des pflanzlichen Immunsystems

Die molekulare Architektur von drei Schlüsselproteinen und ihren Komplexen zeigt, wie Pflanzen die Abwehr von Krankheitserregern dirigieren

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12 December 20138 January 2014

Winners of the WPC Innovations Award 2013 have been elected

Awarded products are Renolit Gorcell, ECOLIFE® - Planet Protecting Profiles and new, structural foamed WPC

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WPC Innovationspreisträger 2013 gekürt

Gewinnerprodukte sind Renolit Gorcell, ECOLIFE® - Planet Protecting Profiles und neues, strukturgeschäumtes WPC

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Häuser aus Holz bauen – Neue FNR-Broschüre “Holzhauskonzepte” erläutert Bauweisen und Eigenschaften

Einzigartiger Baustoff erfreut sich wachsender Beliebtheit

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Sustainable Refining Launches Vegetable Oil Bio-based Vehicle Undercoating System

Sustainable Refining announces the launch of its renewable vehicle undercoating, formulated to seal out corrosive elements and protect vehicles from rust damage

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New Zealand company moving its biomass-resin product plant to Kearney (Iowa), will use distillers grains

Testing likely will be done on corn stover at Kearney’s Xylemer BioProducts Inc. manufacturing plant

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USPTO Issues Patent to Biofeedstock Company Proterro for Its Biosynthetic Process To Manufacture Fermentable Sugar

Method patent protects the entire Proterro sugar-making process that integrates a patented, highly productive microorganism with a novel, robust photobioreactor made from off-the-shelf materials

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11 December 201311 December 2013

Evonik auf Bioökonomie-Kurs

In Slovenská Ľupča hat Evonik eine Pilotanlage für die biotechnische Herstellung von ω-Amino-Laurinsäure aufgebaut

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New Line of Compostable Bags Receives BPI Certification

'Nature's Reward®' Trash, Lawn & Leaf and Shopping Bags Prove 100% Biodegradability

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ICIS Innovation Award Winners, Renmatix and Virent, Announce Collaboration on Bio-based Packaging

New Routes in Sustainable Chemistry Aim to Deliver Broader Supplies of Affordable Bioplastics

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World bioplastics demand to skyrocket 19% annually through 2017

Robust growth expected in all geographic markets, stimulated by consumer preferences for sustainable materials

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10 December 201310 December 2013

Evonik and LanzaTech working on bio-processed precursors for specialty plastics

Synthetic biology to enable the production of bio- processed precursors for specialty plastics made of synthesis gas

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9 December 20138 December 2013

Early Forecast Wrong: Lower 2013/14 Prices Due to Changed World Situation

China imported much of the surplus stock on the world market, allowing prices to remain relatively high

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TNO, VITO & Green Chemistry Campus launch Biorizon >> The Way to Aromatics

€2,5 million start up funding enables working on innovative technologies to develop aromatics out of agro-residuals

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Orientierungshilfe für Hersteller von Wood-Plastic-Composites

Forscher untersuchten dreizehn Compoundiermethoden

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Synthetische Biologie – Forschung und Innovation mit Verantwortung

KIT koordiniert Projekt zum offenen Austausch zwischen Gesellschaft und Wissenschaft – Europäische Union fördert mit vier Millionen Euro

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PLA in food packaging is a ‘big challenge’

The global Polylactic Acid (PLA) market is expected to reach $5.2bn by 2020, according to AMR, but the material still faces stiff competition from other products on the market such as PET and PVC and PE

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PGF Biofuels Ltd. is Awarded Canada’s First Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials Certification for Resonance carinata

RSB certification allows conversion of Carinata into renewable aviation fuel or biodiesel

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Elevance Announces Advances in Renewable Synthetic Lubricant Basestocks with Elevance Aria™

Novel component architectures enabled by Inherent™ renewable building blocks demonstrate improved performance in synthetic lubricants

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The first decade

Team reports on U.S. trials of bioenergy grasses

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6 December 20136 December 2013

Cereal producers are the big losers of the CAP ‘à la française’

Arable crops farmers, who are relatively numerous in France, tend to lose out

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Metabolix Launches Mvera™ B5011, A New Certified Compostable Film Grade Resin For Transparent Film And Bag Applications

Mvera™ B5011 Expands Metabolix Biopolymer Product Line, Providing Customers with Compostable Resin for Bags and Packaging with Exceptional Transparency

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DSM proves cellulosic bio-ethanol fermentation on industrial scale with 40% higher yield

DSM’s advanced yeast was found to yield 40% more ethanol per ton of straw than traditional C6 fermentation

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Concord Blue and LanzaTech to produce Fuels from Waste Biomass Resources in Georgia

Proprietary technology earned global sustainability certification from the Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials

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bio-on bio plastic replaces metal

New bio-degradable biopolymer can be used to produce technical articles currently manufactured with polymers or metals

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CO2 Solutions Expands Its Intellectual Property Portfolio with New Canadian Patents

Patents will have wide application in efficient car bon capture from oil sands, coal-fired power generation and other large Canadian industries

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Earth Energy Renewables produces high-value industrial acids from organic waste

Demonstration facility in Bryan, Texas, to be expanded into a profitable small commercial plant

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Bio-based products from solar energy and carbon dioxide

Artificial photosynthetic system has much higher energy efficiency and productivity of bio-based products

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Results of independent tests on the effects of degradable plastics on recycling streams and for separate collection

EuPC urges legislators and waste management authorities in EU 28 Member States to push for increased separation and collection of degradable plastics

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Standing Up for Advanced Biofuels

The Environmental Protection Agency recently unveiled a proposed rule that would slash 2014 requirements for advanced biofuel

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5 December 2013

Braskem: Partnerschaft mit Toyota Tsusho bekräftigt

Verlängerung des Vertriebsvertrags für grünes Polyethylen „I’m green.“ in Asien

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Synthesegas schmeckt Bakterien

Evonik nutzt deren Enzyme, um eine Zellfabrik zu gestalten, die aus Synthesegas Spezialchemie macht

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Bacteria like the taste of syngas

Evonik has used their enzymes to create a cell factory that generates specialty chemicals from syngas

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Mexican researchers point to potential of natural fiber feedstocks

Using native cornstarch and sugarcane fiber to make plates, using glycerol as a plastifying agent

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Toyota Boshoku and Toyota Central R&D Labs., Novel bio-based plastic with top-level impact strength

“Salami in co-continuous phase structure” 10 times stronger than conventional bio-based plastic

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CAP reform favours the greening, not the individual industry

Farmers to receive payments per hectare rather than the old method of historical records

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Biotech-Hefe knackt Braunalgenzucker

Alginat-Vergärung mit biotechnologisch erzeugten Hefestämmen zur Biokraftstoff-Produktion

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Umweltbewusst kleben mit dem neuen, ausgezeichneten UHU stic ReNATURE – Der erste Klebestift-Behälter der nachwächst

Klebestift-Behälter aus 58% und Klebemasse aus 70% nachwachsenden Rohstoffen - Lösemittelfrei!

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4 December 20134 December 2013

Glycerin-basiertes Motorfluid als Alternative zu Mineralölprodukten

Zur Kühlung und Schmierung sowohl im Verbrennungsraum als auch in der Kühlhaut des Motors

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EPA expected to release 2014 RFS in February

Recent weeks showing a much lower than expected blending mandate

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AEBIOM, CEPF, COPA-COGECA, EIPS, ELO, EUSTAFOR: Joint Statement on cascade use of wood

EU institutions should support positive actions at EU and national level that will improve, promote active forest management

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Denimite repurposes blue jeans into a “green” material

New, partially bio-based thermoset resin, that contains no volatile organic compounds

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Ressourceneffiziente Produkte aus Biomasse – EU-Projekt “NEWAPP” gestartet

"Feuchte Biomasse ist in großen Mengen verfügbar, jedoch existieren kaum intelligente Verfahren für die Behandlung"

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The Bioplastic Specialist FKuR has extended its distribution program by offering biobased polyamide (Bio-PA)

Evonik appoints FKuR as distribution partner for its VESTAMID® Terra product line

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Evonik ernennt FKuR zum Distributionspartner für VESTAMID® Terra

Der Biokunststoff Spezialist FKuR erweitert sein Distributionsprogramm um biobasiertes Polyamid (Bio-PA)

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3 December 20139 September 2021

Biokunststoff und Plastik haben denselben Grundpreis

Warum setzen Konzerne Biokunststoff ein - weil er "grün" ist, oder kompostierbar?

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Brazil seriously looking at corn ethanol to tame surplus

In some areas it costs more to transport the corn than to produce it