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3 June 20252 June 2025

Monthly news from the Renewable Carbon Initiative (RCI), May 2025

This Month: New Project on Sustainable Feedstock & Biodiversity Protection, RCI Internal Brands Meeting, Working Group Updates, Denmark’s First E-Methanol Plant, and Lively RCI Webinars on Biomass Availability & LCA


20 May 202519 May 2025

Kassø e-methanol facility officially inaugurated

The Kassø e-methanol facility is supplying e-methanol to industry leaders including A.P. Moller – Maersk, the LEGO Group, and Novo Nordisk


Lego nutzt E-Methanol aus erster kommerzieller Großanlage

Die erste kommerzielle E-Methanol-Großanlage der Welt ist in Kassø/Dänemark in Betrieb gegangen. Mit dem E-Methanol will Lego Kunststoffprodukte fertigen


28 November 202425 November 2024

Henkel und Celanese kooperieren für nachhaltigen Klebstoff

Partnerschaft zur Verbesserung der Kreislaufwirtschaft in der Emulsionsproduktion durch den Einsatz von Materialien auf Basis von Kohlenstoffabscheidung


23 May 202417 May 2024

Celanese Receives American Chemistry Council’s 2024 Sustainability Leadership Award for Achievements in Circularity 

The company earned the award in the “Circularity” category for its active carbon capture and utilization (CCU) project at its manufacturing site as part of its Fairway Methanol joint venture with Mitsui & Co., Ltd.


6 May 20243 May 2024

LanzaJet Announces Investment from Microsoft’s Climate Innovation Fund, Supporting Continued Company Growth

Microsoft’s Latest Investment Supports Scaling and Global Deployment of LanzaJet’s Technology for the Production of Sustainable Aviation Fuel and Renewable Diesel


2 April 202425 March 2024

Celanese Achieves ISCC CFC Certification for Low Carbon CCU Methanol

Newly Certified Methanol Demonstrates a Greater than 70% Reduction in Carbon Footprint


8 February 20241 February 2024

Linde Starts up Supply of Clean Hydrogen and Captured Carbon Dioxide to Celanese

Celanese will use the captured carbon dioxide and resulting clean hydrogen, along with other carbon dioxide sources, as feedstock to produce green methanol


22 January 202412 January 2024

Celanese begins carbon capture and utilization operations at Clear Lake, Texas, Facility

The Now Operational Project is One of the Largest Active CCU Facilities in the World


18 October 202312 October 2023

Final Investment Decision on Green Hydrogen and HVO/SAF projects

Galp has taken the final investment decision on two large scale projects to reduce the carbon footprint of the Sines refinery and of its products


21 June 202316 June 2023

Asahi Kasei and Mitsui establish supply and procurement system for bio-methanol

Asahi Kasei plans to use the bio-methanol procured from Mitsui to produce engineering plastics in Japan with a lower carbon footprint than the current product lineup


Asahi Kasei: Biomethanol von Mitsui für die Herstellung von massebilanziertem Polyacetal

Asahi Kasei will das von Mitsui bezogene Biomethanol für die Herstellung von massebilanzierten technischen Kunststoffen, insbesondere Polyacetal, verwenden


3 March 202328 February 2023

Celanese and Mitsui & Co., Ltd. to Form Food Ingredients Joint Venture; Extend Existing Fairway Methanol LLC Joint Venture

Celanese Corporation (NYSE: CE), a global chemical and specialty materials company, announced today two joint venture (JV) actions with Mitsui & Co., Ltd. to extend their longstanding strategic partnership


23 February 202317 February 2023

Citroniq Chemicals LLC and Mitsui Plastics, Inc. Sign a Letter of Intent

Large-scale supply agreement for sustainable polypropylene is marking the beginning of a long-term alliance between the two companies


2 January 202321 December 2022

Japan’s Mitsui eyes building $550m U.S. bioplastics plant

Bio-PET factory, one of world's largest, would cut carbon emissions tied to drink bottles


23 December 202220 December 2022

LanzaJet Marks Major Milestone on its Freedom Pines Fuels Construction

Soperton, GA Facility will be First Ethanol Alcohol-to-Jet Sustainable Aviation Fuel Production Facility in the World


12 October 202210 October 2022

Neste, Idemitsu Kosan, CHIMEI Corporation und Mitsubishi Corporation beschließen Zusammenarbeit zum Aufbau einer Lieferkette für erneuerbare Kunststoffe

Neste arbeitet an einem Lieferkettenprojekt für erneuerbare Kunststoffe mit, und als Ergebnis unterstützen die Unternehmen den Übergang zu einer Gesellschaft mit niedrigen CO2-Emissionen und den Zielen der Kunststoffindustrie zur Verringerung der Treibhausgasemissionen


8 July 20225 July 2022

Circular plastics for green growth markets

To make circular solutions in the product portfolio even more recognizable to customers in the future, Covestro has developed the brand "CQ" concept which stands for "Circular Intelligence" and indicates the alternative raw material base for the company's products if it is at least 25 percent


Zirkuläre Kunststoffe für grüne Wachstumsmärkte

Um zirkuläre Lösungen für Kunden künftig noch besser erkennbar zu machen, hat Covestro das Konzept "CQ" entwickelt, was für "Circular Intelligence" steht und für jeweilige Produkte des Unternehmens die alternative Rohstoffbasis anzeigt, wenn sie mindestens 25 Prozent beträgt


29 March 20225 April 2022

RICEWAVE ™ is an eco-friendly resin material made from upcycled, non-edible rice

Dubbed RICEWAVE was conceived when Meuble, Biomass Resin Holdings, and Mitsui & Co Plastics Ltd. set out to create a renewable alternative to polyethylene


23 February 202217 February 2022

Covestro, Mitsui Chemicals, and Mitsui & Co., Ltd, complete first delivery of certified renewable raw materials in Asia

ISCC Plus certified mass balanced phenol and acetone based on bio-feedstock


Covestro, Mitsui Chemicals und Mitsui & Co., Ltd schließen erste Lieferung von zertifiziert nachwachsenden Rohstoffen in Asien ab

ISCC Plus-zertifiziert massenbilanziertes Phenol und Aceton auf Basis von Bio-Rohstoffen


21 January 202220 January 2022

LanzaJet Secures $50M in Funding from Microsoft Climate Innovation Fund

LanzaJet partners with Microsoft Climate Innovation Fund to enable the transition towards net-zero sustainable fuels


20 January 202217 January 2022

Origin Materials and Mitsui Form Strategic Partnership to Industrialize Advanced Carbon-Negative Chemicals and Materials

Mitsui signed a multi-year capacity reservation agreement to purchase sustainable carbon-negative materials from Origin Materials


29 April 20214 August 2021

Celanese Expands Methanol Production at Clear Lake Facility

Methanol production expected to expand to 125% of original capacity


21 April 20219 September 2021

Shell Invests in LanzaJet

Shell’s investment further enables LanzaJet’s global growth and aligns with Shell’s strategy to become a net-zero emissions energy business by 2050


7 April 20219 September 2021

Celanese to Expand Capacity and Utilize Recycled CO2 for Methanol Production at Clear Lake, Texas Facility

Expansion of methanol production from recycled CO2 supports environmental targets


11 February 20219 September 2021

Commercial CCU Plant using LanzaTech Technology Receives RSB Advanced Products Certification

Carbon Recycling Facility leads the way in production of sustainable materials with world leading certification


30 September 20209 September 2021

LanzaTech eyes two more spin-off companies

Company is planning to use its core technology to create two other businesses


16 June 202012 June 2020

LanzaJet Takes Off!

Innovative Sustainable Fuel Technology and Investment Structure to Accelerate Commercialization, Regional Job Growth, and Carbon reduction


DEM-COM: LanzaJet takes off on non-stop flight to scale

New LanzaTech spin-off launched with investments from Suncor Energy and Mitsui & Co. about $15 million and $10 million, respectively, to establish the new venture


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


16 May 201814 May 2018

Bio-Based Chemicals Market Research Report – Forecast to 2023

Industrial chemicals segment is likely to dominate the market due to extensive demand from various end uses like engineered polymers, composites, additives, and others


17 November 201715 November 2017

New BioAmber CEO outlines near-term priorities to enable growth

Company now owns 100 percent of the Sarnia, Ontario, production facility


21 August 201717 August 2017

BioAmber announces record revenues for the second quarter 2017 and purchase of Mitsui equity stake in Sarnia Joint Venture

BioAmber entered into a definitive agreement to purchase Mitsui & Co., Ltd.'s entire minority equity position in the Sarnia manufacturing joint venture


4 August 20172 August 2017

Global Bio-Based Chemicals Market Forecast 2017-2025

Key findings, market, regional and competitive insights by Inkwood Research


16 June 201713 June 2017

The Sexy 7: The bio markets and apps in PET, PX, PEF, PLA, PHA, PBS, and PE

200,200 downloads for the DOE’s classic report on value-added chemicals — but some hot molecules are missing!


22 May 201715 May 2017

BioAmber and the Charm of Making

Sales of bio-succinic acid were $2.1 million, a 46% increase over the same period last year


22 March 201717 March 2017

Sofinnova Partners announces the successful IPO of Avantium, a front runner in renewable chemistry, which raises €103 M on Euronext

Funds raised will be used to further commercialise Avantium’s inventions into viable production processes


Avantium completes “oversubscribed” €103M IPO: heads for first commercial

The company’s first world-scale plant is a 50,000 tons per year FDCA production unit planned for Antwerp as part of a joint venture with BASF


16 February 201715 February 2017

Avantium goes IPO: aims for €100 million in Amsterdam, Brussels Float

Here’s our 10-minute version of the filing, slightly re-organized to make sense to Earthlings instead of aliens from the Planet Prospectus


18 January 201716 January 2017

Amber Waves of Gain: BioAmber, CJ CheilJedang to launch Asian JV for bio-succinic

Some Digest's editors background views


22 November 201618 November 2016

Canada’s ‘chemical valley’ city looks to lure green investment

BioAmber is now weighing whether to build a second facility in Sarnia that is six times bigger than its first, or set up shop in Louisiana


20 May 201612 May 2016

An exclusive interview with Mike Hartmann, Executive VP BioAmber

Mike Hartmann, executive vice president of BioAmber, talks to Il Bioeconomista


19 May 201611 May 2016

BioAmber reports steady progress at Sarnia plant

BioAmber Inc. has released first quarter financial results


11 May 20163 May 2016

Low cost oil environment sparks focus on performance for BioMaterials

Performance has become a key factor in the biomaterials environment


14 April 201612 April 2016

New platforms, new pathways: The Digest’s Multi-Slide Guide to Organic Acids, the molecules and markets

Main Digest slide deck can be seen below


22 March 201621 March 2016

BioAmber reports operational progress at Sarnia plant

More than 100 companies have tested and qualified the bio-succinic acid produced at Sarnia's plant


21 March 201618 March 2016

The renewable plastic bottle goes commercial: BASF and Avantium to establish JV for biobased plastics, chemicals

Mitsui expected to play a role


15 February 201613 February 2016

Mitsui & Co. Invests Additional $CDN25 Million in BioAmber Sarnia

Joint Venture to provide dedicated resources alongside BioAmber's commercial team

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