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17 December 202117 December 2021

The Most Innovative Bioeconomy CEO is Jennifer Holmgren, CEO of LanzaTech

Results from survey to choose the most innovative bioeconomy CEO of 2021

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16 December 202113 December 2021

Advances in converting CO2 into polymers

Sreeparna Das, independent specialist consultant to the chemicals industry and contributor to materials database Matmatch, outlines some key advancements in the market

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Avantium takes a positive Final Investment Decision on the construction of its FDCA Flagship Plant

A pivotal milestone for the further development and commercialisation of Avantium’s sustainable PEF plastic, with the construction of the Flagship Plant expected to be completed by the end of 2023

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A cleaner choice for our cleaning products

New film about the circular economy of carbon. Unilever is choosing the circular economy. Will you?

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15 December 202113 December 2021

How chemistry is part of the solution to climate change – and not just part of the problem

Green chemistry has been championed by 2021 Volvo Environment Prize laureate, Professor Paul Anastas, who has deepened our understanding of chemicals as a revolutionary way to improve the environment

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Pangaia Elevates Its Environmental Credentials With Colorifix Bacteria-Based Dyes Collection

The Colorifix development works by copying DNA codes of naturally occurring pigments. The replicated code is introduced to engineered microbes and from there, unique colours are evolved

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Cepsa Química launches a new generation of environmentally friendly products to become an industry benchmark in sustainability

Cepsa Química’s new line of research will lead to a wider variety and new generations of products from renewable and reused sources, with an improved environmental footprint, over the next decade

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Covestro CEO Dr. Markus Steilemann Featured in Newsletter

The Global CO2 Initiative interviews in its partner profile a visionary and very active leader

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13 December 20218 December 2021

Arkema to increase global capacity for Oleris® bio-based oleochemicals by 50%

This new production capacity will be part of Arkema’s previously announced major bio-factory currently under construction on Jurong Island in Singapore

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9 December 20216 December 2021

DMC Biotechnologies has completed the first close of its Series B fundraising, raising $34 million (USD)

Company has a deep pipeline of predictable, scalable, cost-competitive products, addressing sustainability challenges across a wide range of industries

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8 December 20213 December 2021

Investment in Shell Energy and Chemicals Park Singapore to bring circular chemicals to Asia Pacific customers

Company to build a new pyrolysis oil upgrader unit that improves the quality of pyrolysis oil to turn it into chemical feedstock for its plant

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LG Chem-GS Caltex Signs Joint Development Agreement for Eco-friendly Materials

LG Chem and GS Caltex will team up to jointly develop mass production technologies of eco-friendly materials for a circulating economy and carbon neutrality

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6 December 202130 November 2021

Breaking News: BASF Honored with Two Chemical Week 2021 Sustainability Awards

Chemical Week has named BASF winner of the Best Sustainable Feedstock Initiative award and the Best Sustainable Product award

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Shell halves Singapore refining capacity, to change chemical feedstock

Company will build its first pyrolysis oil upgrader to produce 50,000 tonnes per year (tpy) of treated pyrolysis oil for its 800,000 tpy cracker on Bukom in 2023

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3 December 202129 November 2021

Continued Progress and Positive Market Activity

Circa Group is enabling the transition to sustainable chemistry by providing a safe low carbon alternative to toxic fossil-based chemicals, and new opportunities for specialty material and pharmaceutical manufacturers

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2 December 202129 November 2021

Blog posts on wood-based fibres and chemicals

Overview over a workshop session beside of AFCC's first conference focusing on forestry feedstock for biofuels and renewable chemicals

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30 November 202125 November 2021

Sugar beet re-introduction could create hundreds of jobs and support Scotland’s net zero goals, new report

Domestic bioethanol supply could reduce carbon emissions by more than 280,000 tonnes annually

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Bacteria as climate heroes

To establish a carbon-neutral circular economy in the future, technologies are needed that use carbon dioxide as a raw material. In the form of formate, CO2 can be metabolised by certain bacteria

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29 November 202124 November 2021

The SHIKIFACTORY100 – Modular cell factories for the production of 100 compounds from the shikimate pathway

Cell metabolism includes hundreds of crosslinked metabolic pathways, such as glycolysis, the Krebs cycle and the shikimate route

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25 November 202129 November 2021

Recycling CO2 to fuel: a carbon-neutral future

The conversion of captured CO2 into fuels and other valuable hydrocarbons could enable a sustainable nonfossil-fuel-based economy

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24 November 202119 November 2021

CO2 from the air as a raw material for chemicals

National and international agreements are aimed at rapidly increasing the share of renewable energies in the energy mix and curbing CO2 emissions. Industry is under pressure to act

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23 November 202118 November 2021

INCITE project update after two years of work

The construction of the two chemo-enzymatic demonstration plants will start soon

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12 November 202129 July 2022

The carbon element – the good, the bad and the ugly

he European Chemical Society (EuChemS) has released this updated version of its iconic Periodic Table, first produced for the International Year of the Periodic Table in 2019

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4 November 20212 November 2021

Clariant Joins Pre-Competitive Development Platform for Low Carbon Emitting Technologies

This agreement follows a two-year collaboration between WEF and the founding companies of the LCET initiative

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3 November 202128 October 2021

Pyrolysis Projects on a Hot Investment Streak

Brief snapshot of some woody-biomass pyrolysis projects

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2 November 202127 October 2021

Coca-Cola Collaborates with Tech Partners to Create Bottle Prototype Made from 100% Plant-Based Sources

New technology for the first sustainable beverage packaging material signals a step-change in the commercial viability of the biomaterial

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29 October 202126 October 2021

Global Chemical Companies Collaborate in Pivotal Move to Net-Zero

Major chemical sector companies and the World Economic Forum are establishing a breakthrough, pre-competitive development platform to accelerate net-zero climate technologies

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28 October 202117 December 2024

The Renewable Carbon Initiative (RCI) celebrates its first anniversary

Looking back at a successful first year with a tripled membership count and presenting clear goals and ambitions for the second year

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27 October 202122 October 2021

Sekab invests in increased production of green chemicals

Company made this investment in response to sharply increased demand for sustainable alternatives to fossil products

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26 October 202122 October 2021

Accelerating electrification with the “Cracker of the Future” Consortium

Today the “Cracker of the Future” consortium announces two new members and accelerating the development of a game changing technology for the electrification of the steam cracking process. This enables a revolutionary decrease in greenhouse gas emissions

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25 October 202120 October 2021

bp and LANXESS join forces on renewable raw materials for plastics production

Partners to produce high-performance plastics for example in various e-mobility applications

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22 October 202121 October 2021

Coca-Cola, Changchun Meihe and UPM Cooperate to Commercialize Next-Generation Biomaterials

Significant Milestone in Commercial Viability and Availability of Plant-Based Plastic from Sustainably Sourced Wood to be Made Available to Entire Industry

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Life cycle assessment shows: Neste RE renewable hydrocarbons cut carbon footprint by more than 85% over fossil feedstock for polymers and chemicals industry

Neste RE’s greenhouse gas emissions correspond to a carbon footprint of 0.45kg CO2-equivalent per kg

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21 October 202119 October 2021

Research gives new meaning to fish-net stockings

Innovation project looks to create clothing fibres from seafood processing waste

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20 October 202115 October 2021

Feds will consider regulating chemical recycling sector

The U.S. EPA is accepting comments on potential regulation of chemical recycling technologies until Nov. 8

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15 October 202114 October 2021

Simple method for converting carbon dioxide into useful compounds

With the new method, carbon dioxide is transformed into useful porous complexes at room temperature and without high pressure

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11 October 20216 October 2021

Restructuring in the pine chemicals market continues

DL Chemical, a subsidiary of DL Holdings Co., will acquire 100% of Kraton in an all-cash transaction

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7 October 20216 October 2021

Gamechanger for clean hydrogen production, Curtin research finds

Curtin University research has identified a new, cheaper and more efficient electrocatalyst to make green hydrogen from water that could one day open new avenues for large-scale clean energy production

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6 October 202130 September 2021

Making climate neutral Chemicals and materials a reality

Legislative proposals must extend the efforts to reduce carbon emissions beyond the energy used for manufacturing, to encompass all products and materials which are made of, including chemicals

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Carbon Dioxide Market Size, Share / Global Industry Growth, Analysis and Forecast 2030 / ChemAnalyst

Carbon Dioxide market has witnessed significant growth as it reached 52 million tonnes in 2020 and is expected to achieve an impressive global CAGR of 6.15% in the forecast period until 2030

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4 October 202129 September 2021

Neste Capital Markets Day 2021: Delivering on strategy and renewal through innovation

Company is targeting commercial-scale operations in at least one of their current innovation business platforms by 2030

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SynBio: The Science Behind LanzaTech’s Success

At its heart, LanzaTech is a cutting-edge synthetic biology or “SynBio” venture, as Wikipedia describes, “…a multidisciplinary area of research that seeks to create new biological parts, devices, and systems, or to redesign systems that are already found in nature."

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1 October 202128 September 2021

Chinese Scientists Report Starch Synthesis from CO2

Researchers of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) designed a chemoenzymatic system as well as an artificial starch anabolic route consisting of only 11 core reactions to convert CO2 into starch

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30 September 202127 September 2021

Eco-friendly process for synthesizing organic materials developed for high-performance materials industry

A team led by Uni Konstanz Prof. and CeMM Adjunct PI Miriam Unterlass has now developed a method for making organic substances suitable for use as high-performance materials in an eco-friendly and completely non-toxic way by generating them in only hot water

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Umweltfreundliches Verfahren zur Synthese organischer Stoffe für Hochleistungsindustrie entwickelt

Ein Team um UniKonstanz Prof. und CeMM Adjunct PI Miriam Unterlass entwickelte ein Verfahren, mit dem organische Stoffe durch Wassererhitzung schadstofffrei als Hochleistungsmaterialien nutzbar gemacht werden können

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29 September 202127 September 2021

Combining sunlight and wastewater nitrate to make the world’s No. 2 chemical

UIC researchers create a sustainable electrochemical system in which a solar cell is attached to a well holding a liquid solution. When charged, nitrates from wastewater in the liquid solution are converted to ammonia

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Circa Signs Agreement with GazelEnergie to Create Industrial-scale Plant Producing Renewable Solvent Cyrene™

With the help of Circa, GazelEnergie wants a green reindustrialisation of its Emile Huchet coal-fired power station site, with renewable heat production and a green hydrogen production project

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24 September 202121 September 2021

LG Chem proceeds with sustainable materials investments

Full-scale production of superabsorbent polymers, full-scale production of the biodegradable polymer PBAT, joint venture on Renewable Diesel production and a planned production of polylactic acid (PLA) are huge steps forward to a circular economy

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23 September 202123 September 2021

Kinder Morgan and Neste Partner on Major Renewable Fuels Logistics Project in the United States

The project, which is supported by a long-term commercial commitment from Neste, is expected to commence operations in the first quarter of 2023

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Solugen raises over $350M – The Series C funding will go towards making carbon negative chemicals

In today’s Digest, you may find reports about the funding, who’s behind it, the tech, reactions, and more