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17 January 201717 January 2017

Global Bioenergies to acquire gas fermentation start-up Syngip

Some Digest editor's backstories and stakeholder statements about this acquisition

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UK bioeconomy supports over 5 million jobs. An interview with Margaret Smallwood, CEO BioVale

How is the bioeconomy in UK developing after Brexit and what means the election of Donald Trump as US President?

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The AirCarbon methane-to-plastics technology: The Digest’s 20-16 Multi-Slide Guide to Newlight Technologies

Company using greenhouse gas-to-plastic bioconversion technology to produce plastics from air and methane

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Why Farmers Grow GMOs

Survey found that farmers believe biotechnology helps them raise crops more efficiently and to lessen their environmental footprint

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Solegear Announces Acquisition of LINDAR’s Bioplastic Division

Latest U.S. Acquisition Accelerates Bioplastic Packaging Market Share Growth

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BioAmber Inc. announces $7 million underwritten offering of common stock and concurrent $8.9 million registered direct offering of warrants

BioAmber intends to use the net proceeds of the underwritten offering and the registered offering of warrants for working capital and other general corporate purposes

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16 January 20179 September 2021

Avantium Acquires Liquid Light

Unrivaled electro-catalysis technology to convert CO₂ to sustainable chemicals

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Let’s Get it On: Avantium acquires Liquid Light

Acquisition aims to commercialize new process technologies using CO₂ as feedstock to produce sustainable chemicals and materials

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Here’s a New Year’s resolution we should all make – take “The Challenge”!

Perstorp launched its Time to Act campaign at the recent European Bioplastics conference in Berlin

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BioAmber and CJ CheilJedang Plan JV for Succinic Acid Production in Asia

Intent is to produce cost competitive bio-succinic acid in China to accelerate sales growth

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Mazda Uses Unpainted Plastic for Exterior Parts of Convertible

"Bio Engineering Plastic" was produced in cooperation with Mitsubishi Chemical by using the plant-derived "isosorbide"

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Hydrocarbons from cheap renewable carbon: The Digest’s 2016 Multi-Slide Guide to Global Bioenergies

CEO Marc Delcourt and Director of Industrial Strategy gave interesting presentations

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A EU project for efficient algae cultivation integrated into wastewater treatment

Turning waste and emissions into a biological resource is the main goal of the Climate-KIC co-funded Microalgae Biorefinery 2.0 project

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Synthetic biology startup Lygos raises $13 million from OS Fund and IA Ventures to make cleaner chemicals

Lygos is now producing “metric ton quantities” of its bio-malonic acid products

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13 January 20179 September 2021

Researchers Learn How a Bacterium Reduces CO2 in Biofuel Production

Findings identified a new metabolic route previously unknown to the scientific community

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Scientists build bacteria-powered battery on single sheet of paper

Instead of ordering batteries by the pack, we might get them by the ream in the future

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Startup brings wood-plastic composite toy trucks to market

Kickstarter campaign raised $15,000 and Vanguard Plastics Corp. helped move the project to commercial reality

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ECN brings thermochemical aromatics production to Biorizon

Shared Research Center Biorizon is working with partners to develop aromatics from organic waste

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Second chance carbon: The Digest’s 2016 Multi-Slide Guide to LanzaTech

LanzaTech CEO Jennifer Holmgren gave this illuminating address at ABLC Next 2016 in San Francisco

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Ken Richards, CEO of Leaf Resources, is the most innovative bioeconomy CEO 2016

The bioeconomy revolution is a reality thanks to visionary managers

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DuPont Industrial Biosciences to Begin New Research Aimed to Enable Global Access for Protein Medications

Gates Foundation Grant to address market need for high volume, affordable and rapid cycle time pharmaceutical proteins

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12 January 201710 January 2017

Bio-on announces new multi-license maxi agreement for revolutionary PHAs

New plants envisaged in Europe and Asia to produce up to 100 thousand tonnes per year of PHAs bioplastic

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Bio-on kündigt einen neuen Multilizenzvertrag für den bahnbrechenden Biokunststoff PHA an

Neue Anlagen in Europa und Asien für die Produktion von bis zu 100.000 Tonnen PHA-Biokunststoff pro Jahr geplant

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MHG Debuts New Corporate Identity

Biotechnology Company Salutes its Legacy Brand Identity for Global Recognition

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Meredian: PHA-Produzent heißt wieder Danimer Scientific

Biotechnologieunternehmen kehrt zum ursprünglichen Firmenlabel zurück

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Kick-off €2.1 million European project InDIRECT by Biobased Industries Joint Undertaking (BBI-JU)

Contribution to European milestone ‘Manage waste as a resource’ by efficiently converting diverse organic waste into marketable protein, lipids and chitin using insects

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Rice scientists, colleagues use doped graphene quantum dots to reduce carbon dioxide to fuel

Carbon dots dash toward ‘green’ recycling role

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All Bioeconomy Processes Developed Upstairs: The Digest’s 2016 Multi-Slide Guide to the ABPDU

Technology centers to optimize and scale technologies to enable the commercialization of bio-based chemicals, materials, and fuels

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Researchers watch biomolecules at work

Method development advance at the University of Bonn allows deeper insight into cellular processes

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Switchgrass May Be a Good Option for Farmers Who Have Lost Fertile Topsoil

Switchgrass can improve soil quality on eroded farms, study finds

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11 January 2017

News from nova research: GreenPremium and EU Ecolabel

Findings summarized in Bioplastics MAGAZINE

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Artificial leaf as mini-factory for medicine

Eindhoven University researchers presented scenario where leaves are able to collect enough sunlight to produce chemical products

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Global Bioenergies continues to bring its demo plant into operation successfully and lays out its strategy for using renewable resources

First production of green isobutene was already observed

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Global Bioenergies setzt die Inbetriebnahme seiner industriellen Demonstrationsanlage erfolgreich fort und präzisiert seine Strategie zur Nutzung erneuerbarer Rohstoffe

Erste Produktion von grünem Isobuten bereits festgestellt

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Forscher rücken molekulare Filme der Photokatalyse in greifbare Nähe

Neu visualisierter Prozess könnte zu einer besseren (effektiveren?) solaren Energiegewinnung führen

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DTU Researchers Make Molecular Movies of Photocatalysis About to Happen

New findings provide a key step towards a general understanding of the dynamics involved in artificial photosynthesis

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Interpol says corruption in global forestry sector worth $29 billion every year

13-country survey discovered an average of 250 cases of corruption in each country related to the forestry sector

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New global initiative launched in Maine to offer financial and development support to bio-based projects

First of its kind challenge “truly” focuses on the commercialisation of innovation

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Faster (cheaper) method for making big bioactive ring molecules

Chemists have developed a method that produces cyclic depsipeptides in a single step with high yields and in unusually large sizes

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A Critical Look at Cellulosic Ethanol and Other Advanced Biofuels

Our intent was to provide a state-of-the-art assessment of progress of advanced biofuels within three market segments: gasoline, middle distillates and aviation fuels

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10 January 20177 January 2017

Reduced CO2 emissions and increased sustainability in plastics production: Commercial debut for PLAneo® technology from thyssenkrupp

First new plant will produce around 10,000 tons of PLA per year

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Weniger CO2-Emissionen und mehr Nachhaltigkeit bei der Kunststoffproduktion: PLAneo® Technologie von thyssenkrupp wird kommerziell

Erste neue Anlage soll jährlich rund 10.000 Tonnen des Biokunststoffs PLA produzieren

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Reverdia Hires New Business Development Manager, Grows Commercial Team

Alexander Krapivin to establish strong tracks in international sales, business development and marketing

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Wasserstoff aus Sonnenlicht – aber im Dunkeln

Graphitisches Kohlenstoffnitrid kann für die künstliche Photosynthese Elektronen erzeugen, speichern und zeitverzögert wieder freisetzen

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Dark Photocatalysis: Storage of Solar Energy in Carbon Nitride for Time-Delayed Hydrogen Generation

New approach for storing sunlight as long-lived radicals provides the structural basis for designing photocatalysts with long-lived photo-induced states

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Finding the next generation of carbon – “flue gases become feedstock”

New half a million Euro EU project 'CarbonNext' to be running for two years

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9 January 20179 September 2021

New venture selects Cargill’s Tennessee site to produce Calysta FeedKind Protein

Site will house one of the largest gas fermentation facilities to produce sustainable fish feed ingredient

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A good start for 2017: Let’s start measuring all plastics along the same yardstick!

What is needed in the bioplastics economy is not more, but better communication

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Nachhaltige Zahnpflege: Zahnbürsten-Griff aus IfBB-Biowerkstoff

Borstenköpfe bestehen aus Miswak-Holz und sind austauschbar

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Konferenz der Kohlendioxid-Verwerter

Nachlese: Auf einer Konferenz in Köln ging es um innovative Verfahren der CO₂-Nutzung