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18 February 202013 February 2020

Silphie: Hohe und stabile Erträge über viele Jahre

Bienenfreundliche Energiepflanze besteht im Langzeittest

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Bio-Nylon Is The New Green: How One Company Is Fermenting A $10 Billion Market

Genomatica recently reached a milestone that epitomizes a shift from fossil fuels to biology, using a renewable fermentation approach to get nylon building blocks

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7 New Changes in USDA Biorefinery Funding Opportunities – Now is the Time to Take Advantage

Applicants are encouraged to consider projects that provide measurable results in helping rural communities build robust and sustainable economies

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Biobased Solvents and Molecules from Renewable Feedstocks: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Visolis’s Hybrid Bio-Thermocatalytic Process

Deepak Dugar, President and Founder of Visolis shared this illuminating presentation on their platform molecules and applications

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Sustainable biofuels from cultivated biomass need to be a part of the European “Green Deal”

European agriculture urgently needs reliable sales alternatives to stabilise its agricultural revenue

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Brief an das EP: Nachhaltige Biokraftstoffe aus Anbaubiomasse müssen Teil des Europäischen „Green Deal“ sein

Der Europäische Ackerbau benötige dringend verlässliche Absatzalternativen zur Stabilisierung landwirtschaftlicher Einkommen

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17 February 202017 February 2020

Which measures could boost the European bio-based economy?

The Independent Bio-Based Expert Group presents the results of an expert survey on the impact and implementation of measures and instruments to stimulate the bio-based economy

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BASF and Fabbri Group develop certified compostable cling film for fresh-food packaging

Innovation contributes to reducing food waste, lowering greenhouse gas emissions and promotes organic recycling

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Versalis will soon have Crescentino plants up and running

Restart of the most innovative plant in the biomass chemistry sector will be up and running by the first half of 2020

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Potenzialfelder einer ländlichen Bioökonomie

Auf Basis der Projektergebnisse und einer Vielzahl von Interviews und Veranstaltungen im Projekt wurden praxisnahe Handlungsempfehlungen erarbeitet

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Sharon Laboratories capitalizes on Deinove to sustain its development activities

JV aims at entering into an exclusive partnership for the development and marketing of a range of new bio-based solutions, arising from DEINOVE’s platform

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Avery Dennison announces “first-ever” recycled polypropylene label material

Pilot project will make this material available during 2020

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Regierungsberater mit Spinnenseide: Jens Klein soll die Bioökonomie voranbringen

Jens Klein ist mit Amsilk in der industriellen Biotechnologie erfolgreich. Das hat jetzt das Interesse von Wirtschaftsminister Peter Altmaier geweckt

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New USDA Certified Biobased and Biodegradable Temporary Rust Preventive for Outdoor Protection!

Company is offering a broad range of convenient, portable touchup and rust removal items around any plant

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Is levulinic acid making a comeback?

GF Biochemicals new joint venture with Oman-based Towell Engineering Group called NXTLEVVEL Biochem to build a levulinate bio-solvent manufacturing plant

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Erythritol: Another C4 Platform Chemical in Biomass Refinery

The potential of erythritol as a platform chemical in biomass refinery is discussed in terms of erythritol production and utilization

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Innovative Power-to-Gas-Technologien für die Energiewende

Abschlusskonferenz zum EU-Forschungsprojekt STORE&GO am KIT

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14 February 202012 February 2020

Huhtamaki focuses on fibre

Renewable fibre is the main volume raw material for Huhtamaki, with already, nearly 70% of product portfolio consisting of fibre-based products

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Auftakt des HY3-Projekts: Deutschland und die Niederlande untersuchen gemeinsam Möglichkeiten zur großtechnischen Herstellung von grünem Wasserstoff

Länderübergreifendes Projekt will Durchführbarkeit von transnationalen Business Cases mit grünem Wasserstoff im Gebiet der Niederlande und NRW untersuchen

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MarinaTex: Lucy Hughes entwickelt Biokunststoff aus Fischabfällen

Studentin der Universität Sussex nutzt im Cleantech-Projekt MarinaTex Fischabfälle, um daraus Biokunststoff zu entwickeln

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New market study predicts ‘green boom’

Bioplastics can be used in a growing number of application areas - most important sector for sales of bioplastics in 2018 was the packaging industry

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Buchvorstellung: Biokunststoffe unter dem Blickwinkel der Nachhaltigkeit und Kommunikation

Status quo, Möglichkeiten und Herausforderungen

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Global Carbon Capture Technology Leaders, Svante and Climeworks, Agree to Collaborate On Solutions for a Net Zero-Emissions-World

Both companies share the goal of preventing climate-relevant amounts of CO₂ from going into our atmosphere or removing them from air

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IIT-Bombay develops plastic-like films for packaging industry

The new product is a combination of edible sugar- or fat-based biopolymers approved by the Food Safety Authority of India that can degrade in about a week or a month

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Europe must resist attempts to weaken single-use plastics laws

The EU’s recently agreed laws to tackle the most polluting single-use plastics are in danger of being watered down by industry players

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“Reverse fuel cell” converts waste carbon to valuable products at record rates

Fuel cells turn chemicals into electricity

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13 February 20209 November 2020

BASF introduces innovative pilot blockchain project to improve circular economy and traceability of recycled plastics

The pilot project will introduce a more sustainable alternative to the linear economic model, reducing plastic waste, maximizing its value and enhancing resource efficiency

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Kompuestos presents its sustainable solutions at the Frankfurt European Midcap Event

Company aims to develop advanced technologies and plastic recycling additives, to achieve a higher quality of recycled products

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Fernleitungsnetzbetreiber veröffentlichen Karte für visionäres Wasserstoffnetz (H2-Netz)​

Erste deutschlandweite Wasserstoffinfrastruktur soll künftige Verbrauchsschwerpunkte sowie Speichermöglichkeiten von Wasserstoff umfassen

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Levi’s Found A Way To Make Hemp Feel Like Cotton

For as many companies are turning to sustainability, the availability of hemp as a material choice is beneficial

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Medicine from the blue blood of marine mollusks

biosyn Arzneimittel GmbH ist distributing an appliance against cancer made from the precious blood of Giant Keyhole Limpets  

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Medizin aus dem blauen Blut von Meeresschnecken

biosyn Arzneimittel GmbH vertreibt Krebsmittel aus dem kostbaren Blut der Wirbellosen

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5 Minutes With… Vera Essmann from Covestro

The company is currently developing new bio-based products based on biomass, CO₂, and recycled waste

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Ceresana: Marktstudie prognostiziert weiteres Wachstum für Biokunststoffe

In immer mehr Anwendungsgebieten können Biokunststoffe eingesetzt werden - wichtigste Absatzbranche war im Jahr 2018 die Verpackungsindustrie

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Genpak to make food containers with bioplastics from Danimer Scientific

Bioplastics maker Danimer Scientific will supply thermoforming giant Genpak LLC with material to make biodegradable food containers

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Wie genau Cyanobakterien CO2 so effizient umwandeln

Ein Forschungsteam konnte das Geheimnis der Bakterien lüften. Künftig wird es so möglich, bei ihnen abzuschauen

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12 February 20209 September 2021

Here’s cheers to a new use for CO2 from the atmosphere

CSIRO project Airthena offers a cost-effective, efficient, and environmentally-friendly option to recycle CO₂ for use on-site, on-demand

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Sugarcane bagasse may replace oil in plastic production

Research is being conducted at the São Carlos Chemistry Institute

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Nachhaltiges Bauen: Lebender Beton für mikrobielle Häuser?

Mischung aus Sand, Hydrogel und Gelatine als Nährboden für Synechococcus-Bakterien lassen einen Backstein entstehen, der sich selbst reparieren kann

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Teresa Kok to engage Europe on direction of Malaysian oil palm industry

One-week visit will involve the United Kingdom, Spain, the Netherlands and Belgium, to address the widespread anti-palm oil campaign in the continent

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The chemical cure?

The final piece of the recycling jigsaw, or a toxic pseudo-solution? David Burrows reports on chemical recycling

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Porzellan aus Rinderknochen

Keramiker Gregg Moore stellt Geschirr aus Tierresten her

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Fintoil, partly owned by Taaleri, invests more than EUR 100 million in a biorefinery in Hamina

More than 60% of the biorefinery’s output will be directed as feedstock to biodiesel production

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Biologische Kreislaufwirtschaft nach dem Cradle to Cradle® Prinzip

Textilien sind auch ein Hauptverursacher von Mikroplastik in der Umwelt. Mit dem Cradle to Cradle^® Prinzip entstehen keine Abfälle, sondern Nährstoffe für zukünftige Generationen

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Biological circular economy in accordance with the Cradle to Cradle® principle

Textiles are one of the major sources of microplastics released into the environment. Production based on the Cradle to Cradle^® principle prevents waste by turning it into nutrients for future generations

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“Kunststoffe des 21. Jahrhunderts” – SKZ identifiziert wichtigen Forschungsbedarf

Zahlreiche Experten trugen zur Klärung der themenbezogenen Fachgebiete bei und erarbeiteten einen gemeinsamen Status Quo

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DMC Biotech Completes Successful Pilot of L-alanine

The predictability of the DMC process has been demonstrated from high through put screening to commercially relevant scale

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Pflanzenblätter als Verpackungsalternative zu Plastik

Forschung der Uni Bonn über biobasierte Verpackungen zum Schutz leicht verderblicher Lebensmittel in Benin

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11 February 20209 September 2021

Negative emissions pioneer Drax announces new CCUS projects during Energy Minister’s visit

New partnership with cleantech company Econic Technologies to explore the potential for using captured carbon dioxide from its biomass power generation

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All things considered, wooden pallets are more eco-friendly than plastic pallets

Penn State researchers compared the long-term performance of treated wooden and plastic pallets through a detailed, cradle-to-grave life-cycle assessment