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15 April 20209 September 2021

How the chemical industry can meet the climate goals

ETH researchers analysed various possibilities for reducing the net CO₂ emissions of the chemical industry to zero. Their conclusion? The chemical industry can in fact have a carbon-​neutral future

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Super clear, super thin, super durable: Zymergen bends it like Beckham, electronics-wise

New great company's product is incredibly more thin, coupled with opacity and cost parity

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14 April 20207 April 2020

Sateri’s Fujian Mill Complies with EU-BAT Standard, Rest of the Mills to Complete Assessments and Comply by 2023

EU-BAT is specifically developed for adoption by industries in Europe. Sateri is going beyond regulatory requirements to be an early adopter

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9 April 20207 April 2020

Possible lives for food waste from restaurants

Research into the field of the bioeconomy and the search for waste valorization strategies is the field of research for the BIOSAHE

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8 April 20203 April 2020

MATER-BI, the New Grade for Extrusion Coating Now Available

In comparison with previous versions, the new grade offers an appreciable improvement in process stability, coating thicknesses and processing speed

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7 April 20202 April 2020

Synthetic palm oil being brewed like beer gets Bill Gates’ investment

C16 Biosciences has just received a 20 million dollar 'series A' investment round from Bill Gates’ Breakthrough Energy Ventures fund

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6 April 20201 April 2020

NC Partnering Newsletter 03/2020

How does bio-based achieve higher impact in environmental policy?

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31 March 202027 March 2020

The Bioplastics Industry 2020-2024

Focus on Biodegradable Plastics, Featuring Detailed Profiles of Corbion, BASF, Mitsubishi Chemical, Biome Technologies, Solvay & Arkema

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Agriculture, bioeconomy and rural development Overview 2020

Investing in agricultural supply chains and rural areas is crucial to addressing the growing demand for healthier food and tackling challenges such as soil degradation, food waste, pollution and climate change

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30 March 202025 March 2020

Huhtamaki’s ambition is to be the first choice in sustainable food packaging

Company will focus on growth, competitiveness, talent and sustainability

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Governor Janet Mills Signs Renewable Products Tax Credit into Law

New legislation will help Maine compete for a market share in the growing global bioeconomy

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27 March 202024 March 2020

DSM honors Professor Marc Hillmyer with the 2020 Bright Science Award in materials sciences

The jury selected Professor Hillmyer because of the scientific breadth and depth of his work and its relevance to the advancement of bio-based and circular materials

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Next Five Years Could be Pivotal for Bioplastics

Bioplastics industry is yet to take off and the sector is littered with bankruptcies - but the situation is beginning to change

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26 March 202023 March 2020

AR Packaging drives sustainable innovation and targets a major shift to dry molded fibre packaging together with PulPac

Group has joined the PulPac Technology Pool and thereby gets unique access to optimised processes for putting fully fibre based and renewable single-use products on the market

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In stressful times, some good news

This legislation to help Maine compete for a market share in the growing global bioeconomy

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More rapeseed meal in compound feeds despite declining production

UFOP Chart of the week (12 2020)

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25 March 202023 March 2020

EUBP raises concerns over biased EASAC report on bio-based and biodegradable plastics

Statements implicitly lead to some very questionable recommendations to EU institutions and citizens

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DOE offers $25 million for plastics recycling R&D

BETO issued a joint funding opportunity announcement on March titled “BOTTLE: Bio-Optimized Technologies to Keep Thermoplastics out of Landfills and the Environment.”

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Building a lemon bioeconomy with green technology

Italy wants to open the route to a broader and richer economy for lemons, well beyond its conventional markets

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24 March 202024 March 2020

Sateri Achieves Breakthrough in Commercial Production of Viscose Using Recycled Textile Waste

Forging Ahead with Circular Bioeconomy

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Capricorn Partners invests in plant-based protein company Prolupin

Coming years will bring the company's unique Lupine Protein Isolate (LPI) as well as the vegan Made with LUVE brand centre stage for consumers

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PTG earmarks B5bn for pumps, expansion

Thai Company to invest $15.5M in PPP Green Complex JV - Goal is No. 2 in Thai market after outlay

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23 March 202018 March 2020

Scientists call for action for the EU Common Agricultural Policy to address sustainability challenges

An open statement signed by over 3,600 scientists across Europe and beyond

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World’s smelliest fruit could charge your mobile phone

Turn tropical fruits into super-capacitors

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20 March 202017 March 2020

New Circular Economy Action Plan: no circular economy without bioeconomy

EUBP would prefer a more differentiated approach from the Commission and claim artificial separation of the circular economy and the bio-based economy

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19 March 202016 March 2020

Enhanced role envisaged for the bio-based industries under the EU’s new Circular Economy Action Plan

Proposed EU Strategy for Textiles also presents opportunities for Europe’s flourishing bio-based textiles sector

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DSM announces partnership with SABIC and UPM Biofuels to create bio-based Dyneema®

Collaboration sees Dyneema^® transition to bio-based feedstock without compromising process efficiency or product performance

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Update on Starbucks Journey to Find a More Sustainable Cup

In March of 2019, Starbucks announced a commitment to conduct market tests with the cup technologies in select stores in five cities

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European Commission takes aim at ‘greenwashing’ in new circular economy action plan

The EU’s circular economy action plan goes a long way in setting out an agenda on sustainable products

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Early ballots are in, Praj, LanzaTech leading in “Best Places to Work in the Bioeconomy” voting

The final results will be announced at 630pm ET on March 26th, 2020 at ABLC 2020

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18 March 202014 March 2020

Carbios is a signatory to the European Plastics Pact, a public-private initiative to promote the circular economy of plastics

A coalition to increase the management efficiency of the lifecycle of plastic materials and support the development of innovative technologies

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Kelheim Fibres achieves low risk in first CanopyStyle Audit

Company’s current supply chain is confirmed as low risk of sourcing wood from Ancient and Endangered Forests

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Nova Pangaea partners with Pakistan’s JS Group to licence biofuel technology

Deal includes a licence for the use of NPT’s REFNOVA end-to-end fractionation process to turn sugar cane bagasse into valuable sugars and chemicals

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16 March 202019 March 2020

PHA (Polyhydroxyalkanoates) are a class of Natural Polymers that have not been chemically modified

GO!PHA response to the Eunomia study on the plastics definition under the Directive (EU) on the reduction of the impact of certain plastic products on the environment

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Corbion Strategy Update: Advance 2025

Company has developed increasingly from an ingredients business into a solutions business

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12 March 20209 March 2020

Kitchen knives with a rice-based handle

Rice composite has been designed in such a way that all material can be recycled or biodegrades

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11 March 20207 March 2020

Nouryon and INEOS Nitriles break ground on new facilities in Germany

INEOS will operate and maintain the new facilities as well as provide key raw materials

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Brewing greener chemicals from fermented waste

BBI JU's PERCAL project is developing novel solutions for transforming the organic part of municipal solid waste into intermediate chemicals

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10 March 20205 March 2020

BASF showcases solutions for the entire packaging life cycle at interpack 2020

Increasing resource efficiency and the use of alternative feedstocks in production

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New online platform connects crop and food producers to biorefineries

Waste as feedstock for two biorefineries: one in Spain and one in Italy providing new biobased compounds for the chemicals, food-packaging and agricultural sectors

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Thailand plant to expand capacity for bio-based epichlorohydrin

Capacity increase at ABT’s plant was made possible thanks to improvements in process efficiency and process optimizations in production

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Malawi legalises cannabis for medicine and industrial fibres

Malawi’s parliament passed a bill that makes it legal to cultivate and process cannabis for medicines and hemp fibres, but stops short of decriminalising recreational use

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6 March 20209 November 2020

Good as new: how chemical recycling is giving every day plastic a new lease of life

Worley has partnered with Agilyx and INEOS Styrolution to advance the circular economy for plastics and will be providing engineering design services for a commercial-scale polystyrene (PS) chemical recycling facility in Channahon, Illinois

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Bio-based solutions for a future-fit Europe – How can the bio-based sector contribute to EU Green Deal and to a zero-waste-europe?

"Bio-based solutions for a future-fit Europe" conference gathered different stakeholders of the biobased sector to discuss and coordinate the future of the sector

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Anellotech’s Technology Converts Lay’s Potato Chip Bag into Key Chemical Required for New Plastic Bottles

Converting multilayer food packaging and other non-PET waste plastics into chemicals could help brand owners meet their recycled PET content targets

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Vow ASA enters plastic to fuel deal with test plant in the oil refining and petrochemical industry

New plant is planned to be operational during 2020, when it will become a first showcase of ETIA’s Biogreen pyrolysis unit potential for plastic to fuel

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New metabolic engineering strategy for effective sugar utilization by microbes successfully improves bioproduction of polymer raw materials

Japanese scientists find new metabolic engineering technique to improve biochemical production

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5 March 20202 March 2020

USDA Rural Development, BioPreferred Program and more

The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to USDA’s Bioproducts to Market Efforts

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4 March 20204 March 2020

Avantium sells bioaromatics patent portfolio to TNO

These technologies lie outside Avantium’s strategic focus and will now be further developed by TNO

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Arkema is committed to keeping global warming well below 2°C

Group has now set a new strategic environmental objective: to reduce its absolute greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 38% in 2030 compared to 2015