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7 March 20222 March 2022

EU-initiated impact fund oversubscribed with € 300 million

Growth capital for sustainable transformation to a bio-based circular economy

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Neste reports strong Q4 for renewable products

Neste released fourth quarter financial results on Feb. 10, reporting that the company’s renewable products business segment achieved improve sales volumes and sales margins despite several scheduled shutdowns, a weaker U.S. dollar and higher fixed costs

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4 March 20221 March 2022

Sustainable Chemistry Based on Wood

Producing materials for solar cells, light-emitting diodes and other organic electronics applications as sustainably as possible: A team from Würzburg's Faculty of Chemistry is working on this

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Plans for chemical recycling growing at rapid pace

"Trend Study – Chemical Recycling" by ecoprog examines the technical fundamentals, market factors, development status, plant inventory, projects and competition in the field of chemical recycling worldwide

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World’s first Lyocell T-Shirt from 100% recycled textiles

Due to the superior cellulose properties of cotton in the recycled textiles, the fiber tenacities are even superior compared to wood based Lyocell fibers

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Denka, Toyo to Develop Chemical Recycling Plant for Used Polystyrene

Denka has partnered with Toyo to build a chemical recycling plant in Chiba, Japan which will process approximately 3,000 tons of used polystyrene to produce styrene monomers which will be used for the production of high-quality polystyrene resins

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Durchbruch bei der Umwandlung von CO2 in Kraftstoff mithilfe von Sonnenenergie

Wichtiges Puzzlestück für die künftige Verringerung der Treibhausgaskonzentration in der Atmosphäre

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Breakthrough in converting CO2 into fuel using solar energy

A research team led by Lund University in Sweden has shown how solar power can convert carbon dioxide into fuel, by using advanced materials and ultra-fast laser spectroscopy

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Versalis: the production of bioethanol up and running at Crescentino

Versalis, Eni's chemical company, announces that it has begun the production of bioethanol from lignocellulosic biomass at Crescentino (Vercelli).

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3 March 20221 March 2022

Stellenausschreibung: Projektmanager im Bereich Bioökonomie bzw. „Renewable Carbon Economy“ – Ökonomie, Politik, Strategie (m/w/d)

Standort Hürth bei Köln, Vollzeit

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BASF has developed new adhesives for labels that no longer interfere with paper and paperboard recycling

The newly developed adhesives are easy to remove early in the process, making it possible to reuse and print recycled paper or paperboard packaging without any further issues

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Carbon-negative platform turns waste gases into valuable chemicals

Researchers built on LanzaTech technology to develop a new process that converts emissions from heavy industry or bio-based syngas, into either acetone or IPA, using an engineered bacterium called Clostridium autoethanogenum

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Our first chapter: raising $4.5M to bring planet-positive textiles to the fashion industry

Join us on our mission to build the world’s most sustainable supply chains for people and planet

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CRI’s largest CO2-to-methanol reactor installed in Anyang

The reactor is based on CRI's proprietary technology, developed and first demonstrated in Iceland, and is the key piece of equipment needed to directly hydrogenate CO2 to form methanol

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PepsiCo explores use of recycled UBQ materials in pallets

PepsiCo Inc.'s Latin America operation is exploring the potential for pallets made with UBQ, a material made from unsorted household waste, that could soon replace the conventional pallets currently in use

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2 March 20223 March 2022

Conference on CO2-based Fuels and Chemicals

Join our conference and meet forerunners in CO2 utilisation / 23-24 March 2022, hybrid event – Cologne (Germany)

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Bridgestone and ENEOS Launch Joint Project Focused on Producing Tire Raw Materials from Used Tires

The project aims to contribute to the realization of a more sustainable society, adopted as part of the Green Innovation Fund

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Veterans Delta CleanTech on carbon capture: ‘Utilization is the key’

"We have been joined by an amazing transformation and that’s been due to capital markets and investors who are starting to say they want their money put into work that is ESG responsible,” said Kambeitz, one of the company founders

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Relief for Oceans and Landfills?

Strong and elastic, yet degradable: protein-based bioplastics

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1 March 202223 February 2022

The Yellow New Deal: Factory 01 will start an era of sustainable protein production

The production process for Solein is disconnected from agriculture, climate and weather - it is a scalable solution for any geography to create all the different proteins that Earth’s rising population will demand

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28 February 202228 February 2022

A “fairly simple” breakthrough makes accessing stored hydrogen more efficient

New catalyst extracts hydrogen from hydrogen storage materials easily and efficiently

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25 February 202221 February 2022

Origin Materials Announces Geismar, Louisiana as Location for Second Manufacturing Plant, Origin 2

Construction of companys first world-scale manufacturing facility to produce carbon-negative materials used to make polyethylene terephthalate (“PET”) plastic is expected to be operational mid-2025

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Printpack Invests in Nexus Circular

Printpack’s investment, part of a larger round of private funding, supports the commercial scale-up of Nexus Circular’s proprietary advanced recycling process

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24 February 202218 February 2022

BASF and NEVEON co-operate on mattress recycling

Mattress take-back pilot as important step towards circular economy

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Aemetis India to Acquire Site for Biodiesel and Sustainable Aviation Fuel Feedstock Refining Facility

India biodiesel plant adds pre-treatment facility to convert crude tallow into refined tallow for biodiesel production and export of feedstock to California

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23 February 202218 February 2022

New report: PET, the most circular of all plastics, is far from real circularity

A picture of the true state of circularity of this material in bottles in Europe – including how much material from bottles is collected for recycling; how much of it is actually recycled; and how much of recycled PET is put into new bottles

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Braskem Invests in Nexus Circular to Accelerate Advanced Recycling of Plastics

Braskem’s investment supports the goal of a circular economy where hard-to-recycle plastic waste is captured as a valuable feedstock for new materials

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22 February 202216 February 2022

Sustainable and creative: STAEDTLER makes pencils from “Upcycled Wood”

High-quality pencils from the smallest wood chips in order to make full use of wood as a raw material and thus save resources

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Fibral Material Alliance brings together plant-based textile industries

Three plant-based textile companies, Ananas Anam, Bananatex and Circular Systems, have come together to form the Fibral Material Alliance

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21 February 202216 February 2022

Sulzer Chemtech will provide its SuRe™ BTX technology to recover high-value circular petrochemicals downstream of Encina’s mixed plastics catalytic conversion process

New technology to separate high purity aromatics fom cracked oil products gets the first commercial application where waste plastics is used as feedstock

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Covestro receives ISCC Plus certification for its Leverkusen and Dormagen sites

Conversion of production to renewable attributed raw materials makes progress

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Creating a Better Plastic

Carolina chemists may have a solution to the country's plastic problem by "upcycling" plastic trash to tougher, stronger material

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18 February 202214 February 2022

Predictions 2022: CEOs and top leaders share tactics that will speed the net zero transition

While energy efficiency is needed to reach net zero targets, we'll need other approaches and solutions for a fossil fuel-free future

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Sustainable supply chain: Nordmann receives ISCC PLUS certification

Last month, Nordmann, Rassmann GmbH (Hamburg) obtained ISCC PLUS Mass Balance certification. This means that the company can now offer customers in the plastics industry ISCC-certified polypropylene- and polyethylene-based Circular Compounds® from TotalEnergies, made from renewable or recycled raw materials

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10 years after the first EU bioeconomy strategy. An interview with Chris Patermann, the father of the European bioeconomy

In this exclusive interview with Il Bioeconomista, Chris Patermann talks about the new challenges we are facing to make the new economy based on biological resources happen

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17 February 202211 February 2022

Getting hydrogen out of banana peels

EPFL-researchers found a new method for biomass photo-pyrolysis that produces not only valuable syngas, but also a biochar of solid carbon that can be repurposed in other applications

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16 February 202210 February 2022

Linde Expands Agreement with Celanese to Provide Decarbonization Solutions

Under the terms of the expanded agreement, Linde will now also supply captured carbon dioxide, which Celanese will use plus hydrogen as an alternative feedstock to produce methanol

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15 February 202210 February 2022

Greiner Packaging and LyondellBasell offer circular solution for coffee capsules

Branded under the name CirculenRevive new polymers are made, using an advanced recycling process which converts plastic waste into feedstock

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Trinseo Chemical Recycling Plant on Track

Technology & Engineering Companies Named

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14 February 202215 February 2022

The stars of Renewable Materials meet in Cologne, May 10-12

46 Speakers from leading companies in bio-based, CO2-based and Recycling already confirmed their participation – preliminary program already available, innovation award submission by 15 March

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Renewable raw material: ‘Kompofibre’

Raw materials such as coco peat, bark , compost and wood fibre from renewable sources are increasingly being used in the professional horticulture

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11 February 20228 February 2022

Short circuit for big impact

UD researchers report hyper-efficient method for removing carbon dioxide from air

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Verdox Captures $80M to Develop Novel Electric Carbon Removal Technology

Company to Commercialize Patented Electrochemical Capture System to Remove Carbon Dioxide from Atmosphere and Industrial Emission Sources

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ReCarbon completes USD 25 million Series B-1 funding round with strategic and financial investors

Silicon Valley decarbonization solutions company announces global partnerships with major industry leaders

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10 February 20227 February 2022

Tenaris, Saipem and SIAD sign a MoU for the study of a carbon capture and utilization project in Dalmine, Italy

New project covers the capture of 30 tons of CO2 per day through Saipem CO2 Solutions proprietary technology will be subsequently used by SIAD

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9 February 20223 February 2022

Mechanische Wälder in Arizona sollen das Klimagas CO2 aus der Atmosphäre saugen

"Bäume" sind aufrechtstehende Rohre mit einer Reihe von Scheiben, die das Kohlendioxid tausend Mal effizienter als die "natürlichen Kollegen" einfangen sollen

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Aker Carbon Capture, Altera Infrastructure and Höegh LNG to collaborate on full value-chain offerings for carbon capture and storage

The parties will collaborate on offering Carbon Capture as a Service to industrial emitters, enabling cost-effective implementation of the full value chain needed to realize carbon capture, utilization, and storage projects for industrial emitters

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What are the textiles really made of?

Discover the easy way of testing fabrics with mobile textile analysis

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8 February 202231 January 2022

The state of Baden-Württemberg is funding a research project on the production of bio activated carbon from renewable raw materials

The basis for this is the minus CO2 technology of carbonauten: carbonauten convert bioresidue into biocarbons, which permanently binds CO2 from the atmosphere

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7 February 202228 January 2022

CHAMPION consortium reaches milestone in safe and circular material development

Researchers of the CHAMPION project have successfully prepared a first set of innovative bio-based materials with promising properties for coatings, adhesives and home care ingredients