The radical re-sourcing of tires, nylon, parachutes and balloons

Who’s in the global chase for a process to make one of the world’s Big 7 industrial chemicals via a renewable process — and how did Global Bioenergies just jump into the lead? The Digest investigates.

From France, news arrives that Global Bioenergies has succeeded in the production of bio-sourced butadiene by direct fermentation. That’s the first…

Full text: http://www.biofuelsdigest.com/bdigest/2014/11/27/the-radical-resourcing-for-tires-nylon-parachutes-and-balloons/

Author

Jim Lane

Source

Biofuels Digest, 2014-11-27.

Supplier

Amyris
Axens Technologies (IFP)
BASF SE
Cobalt Technologies, Inc.
Geno (formerly Genomatica, Inc.)
Global Bioenergies
ICIS
IFP Energies nouvelles (IFPEN)
Invista
Kuraray Co., Ltd.
LanzaTech Ltd.
LyondellBasell Industries
MICHELIN
Synthos SA
Versalis S.p.A.

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