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18 January 202411 January 2024

Making plastics biodegradable by UV-light

The project ULTRADREAM is using agricultural side streams and residues for developing novel modified bio-based, renewable polymers, with inherent biodegradation capabilities

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The bioeconomy: What next for Europe?

The bioeconomy's focus has shifted from fuels production to bio-based materials

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The lignocellulosic biorefinery concept is sound

A commentary on Zhao et al.

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17 January 202417 January 2024

Substantiate your green claims – Get ahead of the curve!

In recent years, consumers have been confronted by producers and retailers with statements such as “carbon neutral”, “carbon negative” or “net-zero” that have increasingly lost their credibility. And rightly so, as many of these statements were more marketing than scientifically based

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The brightest stars of Renewable Materials meet in Siegburg/Cologne (Germany), 11-13 June 2024

The Number One Meeting Point for Global Leaders in Industry, Academia and Policy – first 40 speakers announced, deadline for submissions for the innovation award is 28 February 2024

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Cellulose Fibre Innovation of the Year 2024: Nominierte Innovationen reichen von ressourceneffizienten und recycelten Fasern für Textilien und Wandpaneelen bis hin zu Geotextilien für den Gletscherschutz

Sechs für den Preis nominierte Unternehmen präsentieren innovative und nachhaltige Lösungen für verschiedene Branchen in der Cellulosefaser-Wertschöpfungskette. Das gesamte wirtschaftliche Potenzial der Cellulosefaser-Industrie wird einem breiten Publikum vorgestellt, das in Köln (Deutschland) und online über die Gewinner abstimmen kann

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Cellulose Fibre Innovation of the Year 2024: Nominated Innovations Range from Resource-efficient and Recycled Fibres for Textiles and Building Panels to Geotextiles for Glacier Protection

Six award nominees present innovative and sustainable solutions for various industries in the cellulose fibre value chain. The full economic potential of the cellulose fibre industry will be introduced to a wide audience that will vote for the winners in Cologne (Germany), and online

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WSS Research Centre for a circular economy in the chemical industry

In the new WSS Research Centre RWTH-scientists will be developing catalysis-driven production processes that enable multidimensional circularity in the chemical industry

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WSS-Forschungszentrum für eine Kreislaufwirtschaft in der Chemie

Im neuen WSS-Forschungszentrum werden RWTH-Wissenschaftler katalytisch getriebene Produktionsverfahren entwickeln, um eine mehrdimensionale Kreislaufwirtschaft in der chemischen Industrie ermöglichen

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TIPA and ATI craft compostable, biobased coffee capsules lids

The new, compostable lids combine TIPA’s breakthrough high-barrier film and ATI’s patent protected system to support consisted flow and enhanced taste experience

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Genera Announces $340+ Million Investment in Sustainable Biomaterials Campus

The investment will expand Genera’s manufacturing, production and distribution operations of its circular, compostable packaging solutions and biomaterials

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Chemisches Recycling mit grünem Strom

Lyondell Basell errichtet eine großtechnische Demonstrationsanlage für das chemische Recycling. Die Anlage wird mit grünem Strom voll-elektrifiziert betrieben

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DSU receives $300,000 grant for microalgae research

A Multiple-Stage Cost Effective Smart Farming of Engineered Microalgae for Simultaneous Production of High-Value Molecules and Bioenergy

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Bio-based plastic: Made from renewable materials

FuraCore® by Stora Enso is introducing an innovative process that addresses traditional challenges associated with FDCA production

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GreenLight Biosciences Announces EPA Registration of Calantha

GreenLight Biosciences Secures EPA Registration for new bioinsecticide, Calantha - Historic Step Towards A Safer and More Sustainable Food System

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Turning plastic trash into chemistry treasure

Researchers employ common plastics to kickstart radical chain reactions, creating a way to reuse plastic waste while improving process safety and efficiency

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Verwandlung von Plastikmüll in einen chemischen Schatz

"Die Verwendung von handelsüblichen Kunststoffen als chemische Reagenzien stellt eine völlig neue Perspektive für die organische Synthese dar"

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16 January 202417 January 2024

Renewable Carbon Companies directory with nearly 41,000 company profile downloads in 2023

The Renewable Carbon Companies (ReCaCo) business directory has established itself as the primary source of information on renewable and sustainable materials solutions. Innovative companies in the field of renewable carbon present their products, intermediates and services

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A Glass That Sifts Carbon Dioxide

Research Group Develops a Glass Material That Precisely Separates Gases

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Ein Glas, das Kohlendioxid siebt

Forschungsgruppe entwickelt ein Glasmaterial, das Gase präzise voneinander trennt

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2023 Sees NETL Make Strides in CO2 Conversion Research & Development

Researchers grew versatile biocatalysts using microbes from a coalbed methane (CBM) well to convert industrial CO2 wastes and other single-carbon compounds into useful chemicals

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Topsoe selected by Essar to provide technology for £360 million carbon capture project

Essar’s carbon capture facility is expected to be operational by 2028, eliminating an estimated 1 million tons of CO2 per year

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Industrie sieht Chance für ökologisch sinnvolle Alternative zur verschobenen Plastiksteuer

So wäre es nach Ansicht der IK beispielsweise zielführend, stärkere finanzielle Anreize für hochgradig recyclingfähige Verpackungen zu setzen und damit auch den Trend hin zu schlecht recyclingfähigen Papier-Verbundverpackungen zu stoppen

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Maersk signs MoU with City of Yokohama and Mitsubishi Gas Chemical on development of green methanol bunkering infrastructure in Yokohama

The successful implementation of this initiative heavily relies on the establishment of port bunkering infrastructure for methanol worldwide

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Glitter has a microplastics problem. One company says it has the solution 

Like the Ronald Britton team decided Germany’s Sigmund Lindner to replace plastic with regenerated cellulose and reconstitute it into a clear film, which is then coated with a thin layer of aluminum and color

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The extra mile from the lab to industry

Converting the greenhouse gas CO₂ into raw materials for industry using renewable energies: What electrocatalysis can do in theory should be applied as quickly as possible

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Die Extrameile vom Labor in die Industrie

Das Treibhausgas CO₂ mittels erneuerbarer Energien in Ausgangsstoffe für die Industrie umwandeln: Was die Elektrokatalyse in der Theorie kann, soll möglichst schnell in die Anwendung

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15 January 202416 January 2024

Invitation to the Stakeholder Event “Bio-Based Innovations for Industrial Applications“

24 April 2024, 9:00-17:00 CET, Brussels, Belgium

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Innovative Bastfaseranwendungen für die Industrie

– Vorträge zum Workshop des DuroBast Projektes verfügbar

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Print­ing inks made from plants

On the path to a circular economy, Judith Deriu is developing natural color pigments from plants and uses them to make sustainable printing inks for industry in the laboratory at the Research Institute of Textile Chemistry and Textile Physics in Dornbirn

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Druck­far­ben aus Pflan­zen

Auf dem Weg zur Kreislaufwirtschaft entwickelt Judith Deriu im Labor am Forschungsinstitut für Textilchemie und Textilphysik in Dornbirn natürliche Farbpigmente aus Pflanzen und darauf basierende, nachhaltige Druckfarben für die Industrie

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Global Bioenergies specifies the schedule of its new biobased isobutene plant for cosmetics

The finalization of the basic engineering design, concurrent with the signing of the first tranche of financing for the plant, is expected in summer 2024

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No More Crying Over Spilled Milk 

Research chemist at the ARS has spent much of his career researching ways to convert agricultural waste products into bioplastics

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Neste verdoppelt 2023 die Menge an verarbeiteten Kunststoffabfällen

Das in den Testläufen hergestellte Produkt ist ein ISCC PLUS zertifizierter, hochwertiger Rohstoff für die Kunststoffproduktion

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Neste doubled the amount of waste plastic processed during 2023

The output of the runs is high-quality, ISCC PLUS certified material for new plastics

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ACWA Power signs agreement to develop green hydrogen project in Egypt worth more than $4 billion

First phase of project will produce 600,000 tonnes-per-year of green ammonia

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LyondellBasell Introduces New Plastics Made from Recycled Marine Maritime Gear

Lyondell Basell presents a new recyclate for vehicles. The polypropylene copolymer is made from used fishing nets

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Fischernetz-Rezyklat für Fahrzeuge

Lyondell Basell stellt ein neues Rezyklat für Fahrzeuge vor. Das Polypropylen-Copolymer wird aus gebrauchten Fischernetzen hergestellt

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12 January 202411 January 2024

Free PEFerence webinars in February: PEF in bottle applications and for textiles

PEF is an aspiring new bio-based material aiming at replacing fossil PET in a variety of applications such as PEF bottles and as a new and sustainable material in the textile industry

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Novel Catalyst System for CO2 Conversion 

Homogeneous catalysts investigated under industrial conditions

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Neues Katalysesystem für die CO2-Umwandlung

Homogene Katalysatoren unter industrienahen Bedingungen untersucht

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OMV and Synthos sign MoU to cooperate on sustainability, including the supply of sustainable butadiene for synthetic rubber

Sustainable butadiene will be produced in the steam cracker at the Burghausen refinery in Germany, which received full ISCC PLUS certification in March 2022

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OMV und Synthos unterzeichnen MoU zur Zusammenarbeit im Bereich Nachhaltigkeit, einschließlich der Lieferung von nachhaltigem Butadien für synthetischen Kautschuk

Nachhaltiges Butadien wird im Steamcracker der Raffinerie Burghausen in Deutschland hergestellt, der im März 2022 die vollständige ISCC PLUS-Zertifizierung erhielt

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LyondellBasell and Pigeon Singapore Collaborate to Incorporate CirculenRenew Polymers in Nursing Bottles

The used LyondellBasell CirculenRenew polymers are made from renewable feedstocks derived from bio-based wastes and residual oils, such as used cooking oils

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A new EU project to valorize slaughterhouse waste and paper and pulp sludge

Valorisation of different organic wastes to produce cost-efficient polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) for agricultural and personal care applications

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Der Pilz macht´s: Myzelbasierte Materialien nachhaltig und wirtschaftlich

Myzelium ist ein interessanter Kandidat für neue, nachhaltige Materialien, wie Forschende schon vor Jahren fanden und begannen, mit myzelbasierten Materialien zu experimentieren

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Using fungi to create sustainable and economical mycelium-based materials

Mycelium is an interesting candidate for producing new, environmental-friendly materials, as researchers many years ago began experimenting with mycelium-based materials

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Sumitomo Chemical to Establish Innovative and Highly Efficient Technology for Producing Methanol from CO2

Completion of CCU Pilot Facility for Demonstration of the Technology as a Green Innovation Fund Project

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Insights Into the Metabolism of Plastic-Eating Bacteria

Researchers have shown for the first time how bacteria break down common plastic coatings

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Einblick in den Stoffwechsel plastikfressender Bakterien

Forschende haben erstmals gezeigt, wie Bakterien häufig vorkommende Kunststoffbeschichtungen zersetzen