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23 January 202019 January 2020

How to Make it Easier to Turn Plant Waste into Biofuels

Rutgers-led team develops innovative process to rapidly dissolve plant fibers

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21 January 202020 January 2020

Avantium: Neue FDCA-Anlage im niederländischen Delfzijl in Planung

Anlage wurde mit Hilfe des EU-Rahmenprogramms Horizon 2020 mit 25 Mio. Euro gefördert

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20 January 202016 January 2020

A vision: insect biorefineries as components of a sustainable bioeconomy

BMBF is funding projects for applications of insects-based chitosan as a sustainable domestic source that can replace tropical oils

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Vision Insekten-Bioraffinerie: Baustein einer nachhaltigen Bioökonomie

BMBF fördert Projekte für die Nutzung von regional verfügbarem insektenbasierten Chitosan

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15 January 202012 February 2020

Avantium to build FDCA flagship plant at Chemie Park Delfzijl, Netherlands

The 5-kiloton facility will produce plant-based FDCA – a key building block for many chemicals and plastics such as PEF (polyethylene furanoate)

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13 January 20208 January 2020

Avantium appoints Bart Welten as Chief Financial Officer

New CFO will bring 30 years of experience in finance to Avantium and has extensive knowledge of the chemical and life-sciences industries

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10 January 20207 January 2020

Event Report: Biorizon Forging Ahead with Bio-Aromatics Upscaling

Many promising results have since been achieved in all horizons. Since the start-up in 2013, high-quality facilities have been added in the Flanders-Netherlands region

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19 December 201916 December 2019

Spero Renewables signs $2 million DOE agreement to advance ‘wood-based’ plastic technology

Plastic-made surplus wood shown to be as strong as steel but light weight and more easily recyclable

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17 December 201912 December 2019

Fraunhofer IAP: Biobasierte Carbonfasern

Am Fraunhofer-Institut für Angewandte Polymerforschung können dank eines neuen Ofens Präkursoren aus nachwachsenden Rohstoffen entwickelt werden

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11 December 201911 December 2019

Avantium secures financing milestone with €25 million EU funding for FDCA flagship plant

The PEFerence partners aim to replace a significant share of fossil-based polyesters with 100% plant-based PEF

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Zukunft der Bioökonomie: Zwischen Chance und Irrweg

In Zukunft sollen bei der Produktion von Alltagsgegenständen mehr biobasierte Materialien wie Pflanzen, Tiere oder Mikroorganismen zum Einsatz kommen

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4 December 20193 December 2019

Call for Abstracts – 13th Bio-based Materials Conference, 12 – 13 May 2020, Cologne, Germany ready for submission

Innovative companies to find markets for their new bio-based products and upcoming technological breakthroughs for a sustainable future

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Verdict’s in for Vertimass: Yep, it’s commercially viable

The innovative catalytic technology of one of the Digest's 'next 50 companies to disrupt the world' allows any feedstock for the conversion of biomass into fuels

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29 November 201926 November 2019

‘Doing More With Lignin’

Project will utilize existing infrastructure for biobased chemistry at 3 locations in the south of the Netherlands

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Destabilisierung macht Holz stabiler: Das Holz-Paradoxon

Forscher der EMPA und ETH Zürich entwickeln innovativen Hightech-Werkstoff aus Holz, aus welchem sie das Lignin entfernt haben

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28 November 201926 November 2019

Novel Biocatalytic System Turns Waste Biomass into Value-Added Chemicals

Their findings have been published in Nature Communications on November 12, 2019

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26 November 201924 November 2019

An exclusive interview with Alex Michine, CEO of MetGen. “Building consumer awareness is key for the expansion of the European bioeconomy”

In this exclusive interview with Il Bioeconomista, the CEO, Alex Michine, talks about the achievements and the next steps of the company

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19 November 201914 November 2019

Avantium opens branch office in Japan to reinforce high-value market for PEF

Japan is considered to be the key market for introducing innovative and advanced materials - and the new Avantium Japan branch office will provide local support

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18 November 201914 November 2019

Valmet introduces roll covers made of recycled and renewable raw materials

New composite covers for press, guide and calender rolls are now available for the first customer deliveries

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The Wood Paradox

Destabilization renders wood more stable

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Das Holz-Paradoxon

Destabilisierung macht Holz stabiler

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15 November 201913 November 2019

Avantium advances its plant-based MEG technology with the opening of its demonstration plant

Company additionally announces the naming of this innovative technology to produce plant-based MEG: Ray Technology^TM

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11 November 20196 November 2019

Avantium partners with R&F Chemical to market high-value PEF applications in Korea

Under this collaboration, Avantium expects to enter this market for high-value applications such as electronics and smart packaging

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A Dutch consortium led by Vertoro has been granted €1.2 million to investigate the potential of crude lignin oil as a platform for sustainable chemicals and materials

New project to focus on the further development of an interregional campus eco-system and for the conversion of biomass residues to crude lignin oil

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Turning wood into pharmaceutical ingredients

"From Wood to Tetrahydro-2-benzazepines in Three Waste-Free Steps: Modular Synthesis of Biologically Active Lignin-Derived Scaffolds"

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28 October 201923 October 2019

MetGen Earns Acclaim from Frost & Sullivan for its Unique, Customized Enzyme Technologies, METNIN™ and ENZINE®

The technologies solve the industry’s major pain points regarding the valorization of lignin, shorter technology development cycles, and customization of enzymes

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25 October 201922 October 2019

Turning lignin into bioactive molecules in three green steps

Efficient, waste-free process transforms pine wood into novel benzazepines

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23 October 201918 October 2019

Avantium joins the Paper Bottle Project

Announcement at the Paboco Pioneer Community Event in Copenhagen

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About those biobased amines we might one day dream up at Ptixar Amination

This review presenting both fundamental and applied research on the synthesis of biobased primary and secondary amines with current available biobased resources

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22 October 201919 October 2019

Graanul Invest flagship plant received the cornerstone

Graanul Invest laid the cornerstone for wood processing flagship plant, thus marking the start of new biomaterials business line

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15 October 201910 October 2019

World’s first combined 2G ethanol and crude lignin oil biorefinery inches closer to reality

New bio-refinery at Villaralto, in Cordoba Province, Andalusia will produce second generation ethanol alongside so-called crude lignin oil

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10 October 20197 October 2019

Farbe in den Biokunststoff bringen

Firma Finke hat spezielle, nachhaltige Bio-Masterbatche zur Einfärbung von PLA, PBS, WPC und TPS sowie Bio-PE, Bio-PP und Bio-PETentwickelt

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Biobasierte Carbonfasern – Nachhaltige Hochleistung für den Leichtbau

Carbonfasern, auch Kohlenstofffasern oder C-Fasern genannt, sind das festeste und steifste Material, das derzeit in großtechnischen Anlagen erzeugt werden kann

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25 September 201922 September 2019

Versalis confirms the resumption of the former Mossi Ghisolfi’s biorefinery in Crescentino

Versalis confirms that maintenance operations and investments to adapt the Crescentino site to regulatory requirements have already been defined

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13 September 201911 September 2019

Der Umwelt zuliebe: Bioplastik aus Lignin

Forschungsteam von LignoPure will aus Lignin im industriellen Maßstab Kunststofflösungen für seine Kunden entwickeln und selbst produzieren

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10 September 201910 September 2019

Stora Enso: Bio-based carbon materials for batteries

Interview with with Lauri Lehtonen, Head of Innovation, Biomaterials, about this exciting innovation to replace fossil-based and mined raw materials with renewable solutions

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Finland Makes Batteries from Trees. Can Maine?

Stora Enso has recently made an exciting and innovative new investment that could one day come to Maine

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9 September 20194 September 2019

Avantium awarded €6 million EU grant to accelerate its technologies

Company will lead a 4-year research programme 'IMPRESS' consortium containing ten industry and academic organisations across Europe

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5 September 201931 August 2019

From Lignin to Value: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to MetGen’s Enzymes

Alex Michine, CEO of MetGen gave this enlightening overview of MetGen’s ‘how’, the Sweetwoods project and its integrated biorefinery flagship, and more at ABLC 2019

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2 September 201928 August 2019

Beyond food: the role of animals in the bioeconomy

The bioeconomy may be dominated by plant-based processes, but animals also have key roles to play

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30 August 201927 August 2019

Avantium plans to open bio-MEG demo plant in November

Based on the results of a demo plant, Avantium will be able to validate the technical performance and refine its economic opportunities

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27 August 201922 August 2019

Research: ‘Nanowood’ membrane is 20% more efficient, finds study

Wood shows promise as sustainable membrane material

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23 August 201923 August 2019

CMBlu stellt Bundesverkehrsminister Scheuer Organic-Flow-Batterie vor

Lignin statt Lithium: Organische Energiespeicher aus Alzenau

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22 August 20199 September 2021

Hydrogen Production – how much will be sustainable, how sustainable, when, and how?

We need new methods of affordable production, new sources that justify the time, money and aggravation of building out a hydrogen infrastructure

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12 August 20196 August 2019

These are the top 10 emerging technologies of 2019

Bioplastics for a circular economy in first place

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7 August 20194 August 2019

Sayings and images from 12 years traveling on the bioeconomy road

The Digest turns 12  

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5 August 201931 July 2019

Could genomics turn pulp’s ‘black liquor’ into consumer goods

UBC research designed to turn ‘black liquor’—a by-product of pulp and paper manufacture—into consumer goods has received funding from Genome BC and the BC Pulp and Paper Bio-Alliance

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Researcher uses canola to create biodegradable cling wrap

A University of Alberta researcher has found a new use for a canola byproduct, providing potential for diverse markets beyond China

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30 July 201926 July 2019

Potential of Lignin Use in Plastic Recycling: A Random Match

Value the Random Structure of Lignin by Nature

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Stora Enso invests in producing bio-based carbon materials for energy storage

Another step on Stora Enso's transformation journey to explore new ways to replace fossil-based, scarce and high-cost materials with renewable alternatives