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28 October 202424 October 2024

Unable to get its cosmetics plant project financed, Global Bioenergies is now focusing all its efforts on SAF opportunities

The Company is now devoting all its energy to applying its technology to the production of Sustainable Aviation Fuel (“SAF”), with a model of industrial partnerships

15 January 20248 January 2024

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

13 October 20239 October 2023

French government awards Global Bioenergies €16.4 million to help fund construction of the world’s first biosourced isobutene plant

The French government will provide its investment of non-dilutive funding in the form of a subsidy (60%) and a repayable advance (40%)

17 August 202315 August 2023

Global Bioenergies raises its ambitions

Increased plant sizing to reach larger volumes and more competitive prices. Production aimed at the cosmetics market, then sustainable aviation fuel. Preparation of model replicability for international deployment

6 April 20233 April 2023

Global Bioenergies launches Isonaturane® 16, its second cosmetic ingredient

The Company has now produced the first volumes of the new ingredient and starts offering them to its future customers, namely brand owners, manufacturers and distributors

21 February 202316 February 2023

Global Bioenergies: First significant sales in 2022

Trade payables increased as a result of the negotiation of more favourable payment terms for the Company in connection with the initiation of production activities

12 December 20226 December 2022

Successful scale-up of Pomacle commercial unit

Global Bioenergies announces the successful scale-up of production at its Pomacle commercial unit. All sub-units are now up and running, a few weeks ahead of schedule

14 November 20229 November 2022

Global Bioenergies awarded for its innovative ingredient Isonaturane® 12 at the In-Cosmetics™ Asia trade show

The world’s first 100% naturally sourced isododecane, paving the way for naturalness in longwear make-up

7 October 20225 October 2022

Biobased chemicals – market opportunities for small and large innovators

Drawing data from NNFCC's own news reviews, this article looks at the chemical giants driving innovation in the biobased chemicals sector in recent years

4 October 202228 September 2022

Global Bioenergies: Successful completion of REWOFUEL project

Conversion of wood residues into sustainable high-performance components for road and aviation fuels, and participation to the decarbonization efforts of ground and air transportation

27 September 202222 September 2022

Global Bioenergies sells to Repsol testing volumes of bio-isobutene derivatives for gasoline formulation

Repsol, the Spain-based multi-energy company, signed a purchase order for a volume of Global Bioenergies’ full-bio-ETBE to be used for formulation and performance assessment of gasoline

29 June 202223 June 2022

Global Bioenergies secures first order from Shell for testing volumes of bio-isobutene derivatives

Company has focused its strategy on the bioproduction of isobutene as this molecule is one of the main building blocks in the world of chemistry

Global Bioenergies erhält ersten Auftrag von Shell für Testmengen von Bio-Isobuten-Derivaten

Eine Umstellung auf erneuerbares Isobuten könnte in Zukunft bis zu 70% weniger CO2-Emissionen im Vergleich zum kohlenwasserstoffbasierten Äquivalent ermöglichen

15 June 202210 June 2022

Global Bioenergies receives first orders from a number of major cosmetics players totalling several tonnes of Isonaturane® 12

Bio-sourced version of isododecane is manufactured entirely in France from locally sourced raw materials and meets ISO 16128 requirements in terms of naturalness in cosmetics products

31 March 20221 April 2022

Start of commercial production in Pomacle

The Company’s first commercial unit has begun production on schedule and the first batches of biosourced isobutene have been manufactured at this unit in March 2022

3 March 202228 February 2022

Synthos to build a commercial bio-butadiene plant

It has been a long time coming for the commercialization of bio-based butadiene (at least for this one where you can count the percentage renewable content unlike some of the mass balance approaches)

21 February 202214 February 2022

A new molecule for the greening of C5 chemistry

New isobutene-process offers an interesting intermediate for the industry, as two chemical functions allow it to be used in a multitude of compounds that are currently derived from petroleum

16 February 202210 February 2022

LAST® wins Marie Claire Prix d’Excellence Beauty Award 2022

The panel awarded the prix for “Research and Innovation” to LAST® in recognition of its make-up range combining performance with naturalness

14 February 20229 February 2022

€500,000 subsidy granted to Global Bioenergies by the Grand Est region as part of the France Relance plan

The financial support covers half of the second phase of construction of the industrial unit and consolidates the long-standing links between Global Bioenergies and the Grand Est region

20 January 202219 January 2022

Unique equipment for biotechnological capture and conversion of CO2 into chemical building blocks developed in the BioRECO2VER project

Examining the conversion of CO2 emissions from refineries and the cement industry into the chemical building blocks isobutene (C4H8) and lactate (C2H6O3)

9 December 20216 December 2021

Global Bioenergies extends the use of its bio-sourced isododecane to skincare and haircare products

New 2020 study has now been completed and will allow Global Bioenergies to broaden its proposal to the giants of the beauty and personal care industry in order to increase the overall naturalness of the cosmetics sector

28 October 202127 October 2021

Global Bioenergies makes breakthrough on the road toward biojet fuel

Global Bioenergies plans a larger plant for 2024, that will be able to produce thousands of tonnes and serve the vastly bigger skincare and haircare markets

15 September 202110 September 2021

Publication in Nature Communications of a paper describing the mechanism of enzymes yielding renewable isobutene

First time that a member of a widespread enzyme family has been repurposed to yield isobutene

23 July 202120 July 2021

Market launch of LAST® brand

Independent laboratories conducted numerous instrumental tests and clinical tolerance and use studies on the products

13 July 20218 July 2021

Global Bioenergies releases second commercial batch of naturally sourced isododecane

Company recently communicated on the reorganisation of its production, which will allow rapid scale-up of Isonaturane® 12 production over the coming years

28 May 202116 June 2021

Global Bioenergies: production scale-up

Transfer of main units from the Leuna demo plant to the Pomacle facility

17 May 202118 June 2021

Cosmetics brand LAST® to launch in June 2021

Products have been designed with over 90% natural ingredients and packaging to minimise their environmental footprint

3 March 202126 February 2021

TECNARO EU Projekt – SWEETWOODS Bioraffinerie produziert erste Tonnen hochreines Lignin

Das EU Projekt SWEETWOODS hat seine ersten Meilensteine erreicht. Es stehen Proben von hochreinem Lignin und Holzzucker im Tonnenmaßstab zur Verfügung

23 February 202118 February 2021

SWEETWOODS delivers first tons of high purity lignin and wood sugars

One of the goals of the SWEETWOODS project is to establish markets for lignin and sugar-based platform chemicals

9 December 20198 December 2019

The 10 Most Innovative Bioeconomy CEOs in 2019. Now choose the number 1

The bioeconomy is innovation, the result of the skills and passion of researchers and managers able to create value and new high-qualified jobs

8 July 20197 July 2019

Launch of a capital increase through a public offer without preferential subscription rights for an initial amount of €17 million supported by the L’Oréal Group and the CM-CIC funds

The issuance of the New Shares will be carried out without any priority subscription period for existing shareholders

17 April 201912 April 2019

How to convert wheat straw waste into green chemicals

An EU initiative has produced renewable bio-isobutene for use in various applications ranging from cosmetics to fuels

Wie man Weizenstrohabfall in grüne Chemikalien umwandeln kann

Einer EU-Initiative ist es gelungen, erneuerbares Bio-Isobuten zur Verwendung in verschiedenen Anwendungsbereichen von Kosmetika bis hin zu Treibstoffen herzustellen

19 March 201914 March 2019

Butagaz and Global Bioenergies announce their first delivery of bio isobutene, a bio-sourced gas, to the Héraclès Winery

France’s biggest organic wine cooperative sharing the commitment to reducing the footprint of energy consumption

15 February 201912 February 2019

First production of isobutene from wheat straw at demo scale

Aim of the project is a new value chain combining Global Bioenergies bio-Isobutene process with technologies developed by Clariant and INEOS

25 January 201920 January 2019

Global Bioenergies Welcomes France’s Decision to Increase Biofuel Mandates

Biofuel players will thus be able to continue building plants and creating jobs in rural environments while reducing greenhouse gas emissions from transportation

10 December 20189 December 2018

Global Bioenergies receives letters of intent for purchases covering the capacity of its first plant project, IBN-One, a joint venture with Cristal Union

The letters of intent come from the cosmetics, specialty fuels, road fuels and air transport industries

6 December 20189 December 2018

The 10 Most Innovative Bioeconomy CEOs in 2018 – Now choose the number 1

Il Bioeconomista has asked a panel of world bioeconomy experts to tell us the Chief Executive Officers that have stood out as the most innovative during the last year

17 October 201812 October 2018

Global Bioenergies reaches 87% of yield target in Isobutene process

Yield and productivity have reached a threshold meeting the expectations for profitable exploitation of the process at commercial scale

13 August 201811 August 2018

France grants to two renewable isobutene derivatives the benefit of public support for sustainable biofuels

Bio-isobutene will be converted on-site into renewable, sustainable compounds, which will be directly usable by distributors to formulate quality gasoline

18 July 201817 July 2018

GLOBAL BIOENERGIES and AUDI renew their partnership in renewable gasoline

Global Bioenergies and Audi announced today the signing of a new agreement focused on the implementation of residue usage, preparation of a path to commercialization and engine testing of new blends

5 July 20183 July 2018

Global Bioenergies successfully moves its C3 process to Demo scale

Bacteria with a core metabolism rewired in order to increase the production yields from sugars

23 May 201817 May 2018

Global Bioenergies and an industrial consortium including Sekab, Neste Engineering Solutions, Repsol and SkyNRG receive major EU funding to demonstrate the production of isobutene-derived gasoline and jetfuel from wood

The aim is to convert currently poorly valorised softwood residues into second generation renewable isobutene for subsequent conversion into gasoline and jetfuel

Global Bioenergies und ein Industriekonsortium, mit Sekab, Neste Engineering Solutions, Repsol und SkyNRG, erhalten umfangreiche EU-Fördermittel, um die Herstellung von Isobuten-basiertem Benzin und von Kerosin aus Holz zu demonstrieren

Das Ziel besteht darin, geringwertige Weichholzreste in erneuerbares Isobuten der zweiten Generation für die anschließende Weiterverarbeitung zu Benzin und Kerosin umzuwandeln

9 May 20189 May 2018

SWEETWOODS Consortium brings together 9 European bio-innovation oriented stakeholders

The project receives major EU funding to establish a first-of-a-kind wood fractionation Flagship plant to create new industrial value-chains using sustainable hardwood as a resource

30 April 201826 April 2018

Global Bioenergies und SkyNRG kündigen Kooperation bei der ASTM-Zertifizierung eines auf Isobuten basierenden Umwandlungsprozesses für die Herstellung nachhaltigen Flugbenzins an

Unternehmenskooperation will die Vermarktung des von Global Bioenergies entwickelten Verfahrens zur Weiterverarbeitung von Isobuten zu einer Flugbenzinbeimischung beschleunigen

20 April 201818 April 2018

Global Bioenergies and SkyNRG announce their collaboration on ASTM-certification of a bio-isobutene feedstock and conversion process for the production of sustainable aviation fuel

Companies collaboration to accelerate the commercialization of Global Bioenergies’ approach to process isobutene into a jet fuel blending component

17 April 201813 April 2018

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