30 October 2012 Bio Architecture Lab Technology Partners With Xunshan Group to Develop Integrated Bio-Refinery for Fuels, Chemicals & Co-Products From Brown Seaweed Global Partnership Connects the World's Largest Producer of Seaweed With Leading Biotechnology Company to Convert Seaweed Into Renewable Chemicals and Fuels
Plantic expands it’s product range with an exclusive distributor agreement with LINPAC Packaging for high barrier films in Australia and the Americas Cooperation allows customer circle development and production of advanced and complete packaging solutions
Corn ethanol with less corn New enzyme allows the biofuel industry to produce more fuel from less corn while improving profits
Sustainable Textiles Possible from Slime, Study Says New biomaterial for protein in hagfish slime threads as an alternative to spider silks
Biofuels Digest honored: The 30 Hottest Companies in Renewable Chemicals and Biobased Materials for 2012-13 are announced
SGB Expands Global Hybrid Trial Network; Confirms Superior Performance Across Multiple Geographies Company produces Jatropha oil for less than $99 a barrel
Monsanto’s High-Oleic Soybean Oil ready for bio-based lubricants Collaboration Creates New Opportunity for Vistive® Gold Soybean Growers, Expected to Increase Demand for High-Oleic Soybean Oil
ROQUETTE’s GAÏALENE® plant-based plastics receives an award at the eco-design competition [avniR] Competition rewards the best local initiatives in the field of eco-design
Laser-activated bio-adhesive could replace traditional sutures Chitosan-based SurgiLux-polymer to repair sensitive tissues and organs
AMSilk validiert Produktionsprozess für industrielle Herstellung von Spinnenseide und erweitert das Team mit neuem CBO Chief Business Officer Mathias Woker neuer Hoffnungsträger für den Unternehmensausbau
Weltweit größte Power-to-Gas-Anlage zur Methan-Erzeugung geht in Betrieb Vorstufe für die industrielle Anwendung erreicht
29 October 2012 ZeaChem Completes Construction of Cellulosic Ethanol Biorefinery $25 million Series C closes with new investors ITOCHU Corp. and Macquarie
Agrisoma Resonance Energy Feedstock Powers the World’s First 100% Biofuel Flight New converted feedstock represents a complete replacement for conventional jet fuel
Neste Oil now producing renewable naptha suitable for bioplastic Neste Oil adds NExBTL renewable naphtha suitable for producing bioplastics to its corporate customer product range
28 October 2012 Sealed Air Introduces Restore<sup>TM</sup> Protective Packaging Solution New Sealed Air Branded Mushroom® Packaging Offers All-Natural Product Protection
26 October 2012 BioAmber On Track for Plant Commissioning in 2014 BioAmber and Mitsui & Co. will extend of bio-succinic acid capacity of its first plant in LANXESS bio-industrial park in Sarnia to 34,000 metric tons
Nike GS Football Boot Incorporates Bio-Based Pearlthane® ECO TPU in the Sole Plate Helping to Reduce Weight by 15 Percent Nike uses bio-based TPU soccer boot and thus leads a new era of elite soccer shoes
Fuel From Thin Air? The skinny on making gasoline from air and water AFS is using carbon dioxide as their source of carbon for production of liquid fuels
battenfeld-cincinnati unterstützt 9. internationale WPC-Konferenz von AMI in Wien Neuer Extruder für neues Produkt: WPC-Vollprofile
OKW: Gehäuse aus Bio-Kunststoff ab Lager Für alle, die einen Beitrag für den Umweltschutz leisten wollen
25 October 2012 TOKU-E Announces Ultrapure bio-Acrylamide for Electrophoresis and other Life Science Applications TOKU-E Company has announced availability of their newly developed, Ultra-Pure, bioconversion acrylamide
Are algae-based fuels, chemicals and materials sustainable? The National Research Council says "no, not yet”. The Algae Biomass Organization says "yes, eventually”. Who’s right, and when will it matter?
Lignol expands intellectual property portfolio with new lignin patent awards High performance lignin is proving to be well suited for many applications
Lubricants from vegetable oil Project "Integrated BioProduction" starts in second phase for the extraction of epoxides in industrially relevant scale
Clear Lam Packaging, Inc. Announces Agreement with Toyota Tsusho Corp. for Bio-PET Supply to Expand Renewable Rollstock Offerings New Clear Lam Bio-PET rollstock will be available in December
Biobasierte Wirtschaft eröffnet neue Chancen für den Umweltschutz und die Wirtschaft in Deutschland 13 Prozent aller Beschäftigten in Deutschland und knapp acht Prozent der Bruttowertschöpfung der deutschen Volkswirtschaft stehen in direkter Verbindung mit der Nutzung biologischer Ressourcen
Mode aus Milch Qmilch produziert ab sofort 100 Prozent biobasierte Milchfasern am Bremer Faserinstitut
Biomasse nachhaltig bewirtschaften – ökologische Grenzen der Flächennutzung einhalten! UBA-Position: Nahrungsmittel haben Vorrang vor Energieproduktion
Grüne Gebäude mit umweltfreundlichen Schäumen Die Materialwissenschaftlerin Marie-Pierre Laborie erhält die Auszeichnung "German High Tech Champion"
24 October 2012 The Greening of Dupont The shift from fossil-based to biobased is paying dividends at Dupont
Avitez spouts first PLA bottle factory in Asean Thai company estimates output to reach 300,000 bottles after six months
Engineering Escherichia coli to synthesize free fatty acids Recent metabolic technical efforts to maximize the downstream products of FFA
23 October 201225 July 2014 Breakthrough in injection moulding of natural fibres: In-feed in the form of fibre pellets solves dispensing problems Promoted project was completed successfully, hemp fibre pellets available as by now
Metabolix finds help for PVC plastics with new PHA application PVC gets a lift, and so do the commercial prospects with Metabolix and its biobased PHA polymers, with a new application in PVC plastics
Biofuels Digest releases new 5-Minute Guides "News you can use” about Avantium, BioProcess Algae and Coskata
Boeing-COMAC Technology Center Announces First Biofuel Research Project Hangzhou Energy Engineering & Technology will find ways to convert waste cooking oil for use as jet fuel
German project highlights hemp as bio material Michael Carus about the project: "Development of industrial scale natural fiber pellet production using natural fibers to reinforce bioplastics in injection molding and extrusion techniques.”
Weichen für gebündelte Rohstoffpolitik gestellt Rohholzverbraucher stärken gemeinsame Rohstoffpolitik organisatorisch und finanziell
22 October 2012 Calysta Energy™ Targets Natural Gas as Advantaged Feedstock for Transportation Fuels and Chemicals Unmet Market Need Creates Global Opportunity
Meredian, Inc., Hosts Exclusive Grand Opening Event Bainbridge opens worlds largest bioplastics facility
19 October 2012 Biokunststoffe: Teil der nächsten industriellen Revolution in Europa EU-Wirtschaftspolitik betont enorme Bedeutung biobasierter Produktmärkte
18 October 2012 Renewable Chemicals Helping to Build the Biobased Economy Panelists at BIO's Pacific Rim Summit on Industrial Biotechnology and Bioenergy plenary session, Biotechnology and Renewable Chemicals agreed: The Future is Now!
Butanediol (1,4 BDO & 2,3 BDO), 1,3 Butadiene And Methyl Ethyl Ketone (MEK) Market: Applications (THF, PU, PBT, SBR, ABS, NBR Etc.), Bio-Based Alternatives, Downstream Potential, Market Size And Forecast, 2010 - 2018
Teller oder Tank: Gibt es überschüssige Flächen für Bioenergie? Neue Studie zur Bioenergie veröffentlicht
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