SABIC Collaborates With Kraton for Certified Renewable Butadiene to Produce Certified Renewable Styrenic Block Copolymers
SABIC’s certified renewable butadiene is derived from animal-free and palm oil-free ‘second generation’ renewable feedstock, such as tall oil, a by-product from the wood pulping process in the paper industry
Start of Assessment for the Commercialization of Ethylene, Propylene, Etc. Using Plant-derived Raw Materials
MCC and Toyota Tsusho will evaluate the manufacture of 100% plant-derived ethylene and its derivatives using bioethanol as a raw material, and the manufacture and sale of the first plant-derived propylene in Japan
PURA Plans To Disrupt $200 Billion Steel Rebar Market With Hemp Alternative In Addition To Disrupting $600 Billion Lumber Market
Company is constructing a facility in Farmersville, Texas where they will conduct consultative education for each corporate customer to how hemp can be utilized to improve the efficiency of existing products
Low-tech and its benefits for sustainability
Many proponents of sustainability adhere to the idea that the main path to sustainability lies in high-tech solutions. Like electric cars instead of the old ones, that guzzle fossil fuels. We even wrote a book on this ‘green growth’. But we also need to look at low-tech and its opportunities
New, nature-inspired concepts for turning CO2 into clean fuels
Some Cambridge researchers, working with a team from the Universidade Nova de Lisboa in Portugal, have developed a method to improve the efficiency of electrolysis by fine-tuning the solution conditions to alter the local environment of the enzymes
Sumo & Kelheim Fibres develop sustainable and high-performance absorbent washable diaper pad
The innovative nonwoven construction with the speciality fibres from Kelheim performs significantly better in tests in terms of air permeability, liquid absorption and rewetting than commercially available solutions made of synthetic fibres or cotton in knitted structures
Easy aluminum nanoparticles for rapid, efficient hydrogen generation from water
For years, researchers have tried to find efficient and cost-effective ways to harness the extreme reactivity of aluminum to generate clean hydrogen fuel. A new study shows that an easily produced composite of gallium and aluminum creates aluminum nanoparticles that react rapidly with water at room temperature to yield large amounts of hydrogen
Carbios to build in France its first-of-a-kind manufacturing plant for fully bio-recycled PET in partnership with Indorama Ventures
With its world-first enzyme-based biological process, Carbios’ converts PET into its core monomers, which can then be used to manufacture 100% recycled and infinitely recyclable PET
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