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21 February 202217 February 2022

Creating a Better Plastic

Carolina chemists may have a solution to the country's plastic problem by "upcycling" plastic trash to tougher, stronger material

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18 February 202217 December 2024

Clariant launches 100% bio-based surfactants range driving the transition towards renewable carbon

Range of Vita surfactants & polyethylene glycols (PEGs) fully based on bio-based, renewable carbon from plants

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Neue 100% biobasierte Tenside – Clariant treibt den Wandel zu erneuerbarem Kohlenstoff voran

Komplett biobasierte Vita Tenside & Polyethylenglycole (PEGs) mit Kohlenstoff aus erneuerbaren pflanzlichen Quellen

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Zukunft der getrennten Bioabfallsammlung: “Ein guter Tag für Nachhaltigkeit und Kreislaufwirtschaft!”

Zertifiziert kompostierbare Bioabfall-Beutel im Bundesrat unterstützt

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Predictions 2022: CEOs and top leaders share tactics that will speed the net zero transition

While energy efficiency is needed to reach net zero targets, we'll need other approaches and solutions for a fossil fuel-free future

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Nachhaltige Lieferkette: Nordmann erhält ISCC- PLUS Zertifizierung

Die Nordmann, Rassmann GmbH (Hamburg) hat im Januar die ISCC PLUS Massebilanz-Zertifizierung erhalten. Damit kann das Unternehmen seinen Kunden aus der Kunststoffindustrie nun die ebenfalls ISCC zertifizierten Polypropylen- und Polyethylen-basierten Circular Compounds® von TotalEnergies aus erneuerbaren oder recycelten Rohstoffen anbieten

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Sustainable supply chain: Nordmann receives ISCC PLUS certification

Last month, Nordmann, Rassmann GmbH (Hamburg) obtained ISCC PLUS Mass Balance certification. This means that the company can now offer customers in the plastics industry ISCC-certified polypropylene- and polyethylene-based Circular Compounds® from TotalEnergies, made from renewable or recycled raw materials

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Commission aims to decarbonise transport by equally taxing fossil and crop-based biofuels

The EU official added that the real value of its minimum rates has eroded over time and a complex patchwork of exemptions and reductions has proliferated across the bloc since its introduction, leading to a “distortion across the single market”

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Wyve 3D-Printed Surfboards Glide on Bioplastics, Not Foam

Surfboard shapers have cut boards from foam blanks for over half a century. Now, many in the industry are seeking methods for building boards that reduce environmental pollution

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10 years after the first EU bioeconomy strategy. An interview with Chris Patermann, the father of the European bioeconomy

In this exclusive interview with Il Bioeconomista, Chris Patermann talks about the new challenges we are facing to make the new economy based on biological resources happen

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17 February 202211 February 2022

LANXESS and Matrìca team up to produce sustainable preservatives from renewable raw materials

Matrìca plant at Porto Torres will supply LANXESS with bio-based raw materials from vegetable oils which LANXESS will use to broaden its Preventol range

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LANXESS und Matrìca kooperieren bei Herstellung von Konservierungsmitteln aus nachwachsenden Rohstoffen

Matrìca will LANXESS mit biobasierten Rohstoffen aus pflanzlichen Ölen beliefern, damit LANXESS sein bewährtes Preventol-Sortiment um eine neue Serie von industriellen Konservierungsmitteln erweitern kann

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Bluepha and Helian Polymers announce cooperation

This addition will enable Helian Polymers to create and offer an even broader range of PHA based material formulations

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Machbarkeitsstudie: Power-to-Gas mit Biogas ist aussichtsreiche Perspektive

Windkraft + Elektrolyse + Biogas = Grünes Erdgas – Forschende bescheinigen dem Ansatz wirtschaftliches Potenzial

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Getting hydrogen out of banana peels

EPFL-researchers found a new method for biomass photo-pyrolysis that produces not only valuable syngas, but also a biochar of solid carbon that can be repurposed in other applications

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Aafko Scheringa joins Electrochaea as Senior Director Sales

His responsibilities at Electrochaea include the development of business with international customers with a focus on contract and transaction closings

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Electrochaea stärkt globalen Vertrieb und holt Aafko Scheringa als neuen Senior Director Sales

Zu seinen Aufgaben bei Electrochaea gehört der Ausbau des internationalen Neukundengeschäftes mit dem Schwerpunkt Vertrags‐ und Transaktionsabschlüsse

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Fast alle Chemikalien belasten den Planeten

Wie stark die derzeitige Chemikalienproduktion weltweit in die Natur eingreift, haben Forscher der ETH Zürich erstmals in absoluten Zahlen berechnet – das Ergebnis ist erschütternd. Neben CO2-​Emissionen berücksichtigt die neue Methode auch die Landnutzung und den Süsswasserverbrauch

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Almost all chemicals burden the planet

For the first time, researchers at ETH Zurich have calculated in absolute figures the extent to which the production of chemicals is currently interfering with nature worldwide – and the results are staggering. In addition to greenhouse gas emissions, the new method also takes land use and freshwater consumption into account

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16 February 202217 December 2024

Renewable Carbon as a Guiding Principle for Sustainable Carbon Cycles

Renewable Carbon Initiative (RCI) publishes a fundamental strategy paper on the defossilisation of the chemical and material industry with eleven policy recommendations

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Sustainable supply chain: ALBIS receives ISCC PLUS Certification

More than 5,000 companies in over 100 countries have achieved certification so far, including a number of key ALBIS distribution partners

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Nachhaltige Lieferkette: ALBIS erhält ISCC PLUS-Zertifizierung

Mehr als 5.000 Unternehmen aus über 100 Ländern haben sich bisher zertifizieren lassen, darunter eine Reihe wichtiger ALBIS Distributionspartner

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Lotus effect: Self-cleaning bioplastics repel liquid and dirt

Inspired by the always immaculate lotus leaf, researchers have developed a self-cleaning bioplastic that is sturdy, sustainable and compostable

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Linde Expands Agreement with Celanese to Provide Decarbonization Solutions

Under the terms of the expanded agreement, Linde will now also supply captured carbon dioxide, which Celanese will use plus hydrogen as an alternative feedstock to produce methanol

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TENCEL™ feiert 30 Jahre nachhaltige Faserinnovation

Lenzings führende Textilmarke feiert dieses Jahr drei Jahrzehnte nachhaltiger Faserinnovation und unterstützt daneben Unternehmen in der gesamten textilen Wertschöpfungskette

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TENCEL™ celebrates 30 years of sustainable fiber innovation

Lenzing’s flagship textile brand is celebrating three decades of sustainable fiber innovation this year and is empowering companies across the textile value chain to adopt more eco-friendly practices

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LAST® wins Marie Claire Prix d’Excellence Beauty Award 2022

The panel awarded the prix for “Research and Innovation” to LAST® in recognition of its make-up range combining performance with naturalness

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Compounds made from ‘digested’ molecules feeds appetite for greener pharmaceuticals and agrochemicals

New method developed by University of Warwick scientists uses enzymes to produce indolic amides, carboxylic acids and auxins – vital for use in pharmaceutical and agrochemical industries

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Verbindungen aus “verdauten” Molekülen wecken Appetit auf umweltfreundlichere Pharmazeutika und Agrochemikalien

Neue Methode nutzt Enzyme zur Herstellung von Indolamiden, Carbonsäuren und Auxinen

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15 February 202210 February 2022

Greiner Packaging and LyondellBasell offer circular solution for coffee capsules

Branded under the name CirculenRevive new polymers are made, using an advanced recycling process which converts plastic waste into feedstock

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Greiner Packaging und LyondellBasell präsentieren zirkuläre Lösung für Kaffeekapseln

Unter dem Markennamen CirculenRevive werden neue Polymere aus Kunststoffabfällen gewonnen, die weiter verarbeitet werden können

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Bluepha breaks ground on its first commercial scale PHA plant in Binhai County, Jiangsu Province

Bluepha's PHA industrialization project will play a leading role in breaking foreign monopoly, actively responding to the national call for carbon reduction and promoting the sustainable development of green economy

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Trinseo Chemical Recycling Plant on Track

Technology & Engineering Companies Named

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Wald der Zukunft: Wissenschaftlicher Beirat stellt Kernthesen seines Gutachtens vor

Empfehlungen an das BMEL in 13 Handlungsfeldern

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The Finnish startup – Nordic Bioproducts Group – has successfully spun a new plant-based textile fibre

Six months after the first wet spinning experiments with NBG’s cellulose dissolution method were performed, the first yarn was already made from the new Norratex textile fibre at the University of Tampere

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Kaneka to significantly increase its production capacity for KANEKA Biodegradable Polymer Green Planet™ in Japan

The Act on Resource Circulation for Plastics, slated to go into effect in April of this year, will mandate a reduction in single-use plastics

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Grüner Wasserstoff auf Knopfdruck: Einzelmolekülkatalysator produziert solaren Brennstoff auch bei Dunkelheit

Ulmer Forschende präsentieren neuen Lösungsansatz für eine der größten Herausforderungen der solaren Energiewandlung: Ihnen ist es gelungen, ein System zu entwickeln, das die lichtgetriebene Herstellung von Wasserstoff zu jeder Tages- und Jahreszeit ermöglicht

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Answering Burning Question on Biochar

Biochar is similar to charcoal and can be added to soil with the goal of improving its quality. It can help increase nutrient and water retention. However, what happens in soil impacts fungi and plants that live there, and it is not always clear how they will react to biochar

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14 February 202215 February 2022

The stars of Renewable Materials meet in Cologne, May 10-12

46 Speakers from leading companies in bio-based, CO2-based and Recycling already confirmed their participation – preliminary program already available, innovation award submission by 15 March

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LIGNOLOC® Holznagel mit Kopf für die Fassade lässt Zimmererherzen höher schlagen

Die revolutionären Holznägel, die nach monatelanger Arbeit endlich die Marktreife erlangten, werden aus mitteleuropäischem Buchenholz gefertigt und sind umweltfreundlich von der Produktion bis zum Recycling

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€500,000 subsidy granted to Global Bioenergies by the Grand Est region as part of the France Relance plan

The financial support covers half of the second phase of construction of the industrial unit and consolidates the long-standing links between Global Bioenergies and the Grand Est region

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Renewable raw material: ‘Kompofibre’

Raw materials such as coco peat, bark , compost and wood fibre from renewable sources are increasingly being used in the professional horticulture

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Nachwachsender Rohstoff „Kompofibre“

Rohstoffe wie Kokostorf, Rinde, Kompost und Holzfasern aus erneuerbaren Quellen werden immer häufiger im professionellen Gartenbau verwendet

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Archroma launches EARTH SOFT system based on Siligen® EH1, a new vegan textile softener with one-third plant-based active content

The new range has been developed in line with the principles of “The Archroma Way to a sustainable world: safe, efficient, enhanced, it’s our nature”

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Cellulosic fibres – A world of opportunity

With production having tripled since 2000, fibres derived from natural cellulose – a non-petrochemical source – are gaining increasing interest

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DMC: Subsequent Close of Series B Financing, Total Raised $39 million

DMC is commercial with its first bio-based chemical intermediate with primary applications in sustainable detergents and human nutrition

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Start-up für biobasierte Chemikalien gewinnt weitere strategische Investoren

Nachträglicher Abschluss der Serie-B-Finanzierung mit einem Gesamtbetrag von 39 Millionen Dollar

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11 February 20228 February 2022

Short circuit for big impact

UD researchers report hyper-efficient method for removing carbon dioxide from air

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Bahnbrechende Technologie zur Entfernung von 99% des Kohlendioxids aus der Luft

Fortschritt bei der Kohlenstoffabscheidung könnte umweltfreundliche Brennstoffzellen der Marktreife näher bringen

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New range of beauty innovation from CHANEL with sustainable Sulapac material

New formulas beside bio-based packaging contain up to 97% ingredients of natural origin without compromising effectiveness, safety or sensory quality