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17 April 202415 April 2024

Plastic-free vegan leather that dyes itself grown from bacteria

This new process could also theoretically be adapted to have bacteria grow materials with various vibrant colours and patterns

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A microbial plastic factory for high-quality green plastic

Bioengineers achieved strong and easy-to-shape eco-friendly plastic using a plastic modifier and polylactic acid

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9 April 20244 April 2024

Eastman molecular recycling facility achieves on-spec initial production and is generating revenue 

The company expects to ramp up production of the new facility over the coming months and enable growth across a wide range of markets

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New Master’s degree programme in Sustainable Chemistry

Focus on the sustainable use of resources – International study programme starts at JLU Giessen in the winter semester 2024/2025 – Applications may be submitted from 1 May 2024

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5 April 20242 April 2024

C1 proves continuous green methanol production process in record time,confirming predictions from quantum chemistry

Berlin-based start-up sets a new standard in green methanol production while tripling innovation speed with the predictive power of quantum chemistry

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3 April 202427 March 2024

AFYREN NEOXY receives €3.4 million milestone payment as part of the AFTER-BIOCHEM project

The payment, recognised in the 2023 accounts of AFYREN NEOXY, is the third instalment of a €20 million grant

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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

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28 March 202422 March 2024

UvA chemists develop new type of bio-based plastic: “Strong, recyclable and biodegradable”

UvA chemists have now developed a strong, heat-resistant plastic that breaks down in the nature after six months

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13 March 20248 March 2024

British cleantech Sonichem secures €1.4 million to convert sawdust into high-value bio-based chemicals

The investment will be used to further develop its technology and finalise plans for a biorefinery plant — the first of its kind

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1 March 202427 February 2024

New Tech Turns CO2 Into Chemicals With 93% Efficiency, Runs Record 5000 Hrs

Researchers at Huazhong University of Science and Technology teamed up with those from the University of Auckland, New Zealand and spent the last five years looking for a viable solution

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29 February 202426 February 2024

A sustainable fuel and chemical from the robotic lab

Artificial intelligence and automated laboratory infrastructure are massively accelerating the development of new chemical catalysts. With these tools, researchers at ETH Zurich are developing catalysts for efficiently and cost-​effectively synthesising the energy source methanol from CO2

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28 February 202423 February 2024

Greenhouse gas transformed in aid of carbon-free future

Waste carbon dioxide was repurposed in benchtop experiments at the University of Auckland

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23 February 202420 February 2024

World’s First Pilot Plant for Bio-Based Aniline

Opening ceremony with guests from the world of politics and science

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The chemical industry is going electric – and using waste as a raw material

Replacing fossil fuels with climate-neutral electricity is now the order of the day - and it is particularly worth looking at process alternatives for the production of basic chemicals such as ethene

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22 February 202420 February 2024

UC engineers’ CO2 conversion helps industry, addresses climate

National research team led by UC professor develops more efficient system to address climate change - a new approach to converting CO2 into ethylene

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19 February 202415 February 2024

Evonik achieves ISCC PLUS sustainability certification for specialty chemicals production in Essen

Evonik has attained the International Sustainability and Carbon Certification (ISCC) PLUS for its specialty chemicals production at the Essen Goldschmidt site

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9 February 20246 February 2024

EU Commission wants captured CO2 to become ‘tradeable commodity’

The end objective is clear: making CO2 a “tradeable commodity” – like gas or crude oil – thanks to "an EU-wide transport and storage infrastructure with pipelines as the dominant transport means on land"

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8 February 20247 February 2024

Navigating a Renewable Carbon Future with the Program of the CO₂-Based Fuels and Chemicals Conference 2024

Redefining CCU Technology and Empowering Power-to-X Solutions

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5 February 202429 January 2024

Teaching Nature to Break Man-made Chemical Bonds

Caltech researchers developed an enzyme to break man-made bonds between silicon and carbon that exist in widely used chemicals known as siloxanes, or silicones

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31 January 202431 January 2024

Catalysing Change – Smart CO₂-Solutions Wanted for the “Best CO₂Utilisation 2024” Innovation Award

Innovators at the Forefront of Carbon Capture and Utilisation are Encouraged to Showcase Their Revolutionary Technologies and Products at the CO₂-Based Fuels and Chemicals Conference 2024

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24 January 202416 January 2024

India: A Vibrant Ecosystem for Cost-Effective Bioplastics Production

India, with its cost-effective production environment, government support, and abundant resources, has potential to emerge as a global bioplastic hub

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19 January 202412 January 2024

UChicago chemists hope to lay foundation for greener chemistry

UChicago chemists found a way to use electricity to boost a type of chemical reaction often used in synthesizing new candidates for pharmaceutical drugs

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17 January 202417 December 2024

The brightest stars of Renewable Materials meet in Siegburg/Cologne (Germany), 11-13 June 2024

The Number One Meeting Point for Global Leaders in Industry, Academia and Policy – first 40 speakers announced, deadline for submissions for the innovation award is 28 February 2024

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WSS Research Centre for a circular economy in the chemical industry

In the new WSS Research Centre RWTH-scientists will be developing catalysis-driven production processes that enable multidimensional circularity in the chemical industry

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GreenLight Biosciences Announces EPA Registration of Calantha

GreenLight Biosciences Secures EPA Registration for new bioinsecticide, Calantha - Historic Step Towards A Safer and More Sustainable Food System

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Turning plastic trash into chemistry treasure

Researchers employ common plastics to kickstart radical chain reactions, creating a way to reuse plastic waste while improving process safety and efficiency

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16 January 20249 January 2024

2023 Sees NETL Make Strides in CO2 Conversion Research & Development

Researchers grew versatile biocatalysts using microbes from a coalbed methane (CBM) well to convert industrial CO2 wastes and other single-carbon compounds into useful chemicals

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12 January 20246 January 2024

Sumitomo Chemical to Establish Innovative and Highly Efficient Technology for Producing Methanol from CO2

Completion of CCU Pilot Facility for Demonstration of the Technology as a Green Innovation Fund Project

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11 January 20244 January 2024

Samyang Innochem’s White Bio-Material “Isosorbide” Receives International Eco-Friendly Certification “ISCC Plus”

Samyang Innochem has received international environmental certification for its in-house developed isosorbide, a white bio-material, and is ready to enter the global market

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8 January 202422 December 2023

Danish Climate Tech Startup Again Launches Groundbreaking Production Site for CO₂-Based Chemicals and Announces $10 million Seed Round 

The company harnesses natural, gas-eating bacteria to convert waste carbon dioxide (CO₂) into a range of sustainable chemical products

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4 January 202420 December 2023

Keppel partners AM Green to explore biogenic carbon-based sustainable fuels opportunities in Asia and the Middle East

The two parties will jointly identify, evaluate and co-develop projects, which can harness and aggregate at least one million tonnes of biogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) per year

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12 December 202312 December 2023

The proposed Green Claims Directive – Targeting Market Transparency for a Green Transition in Europe

Impacts for all market players

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MAN Energy Solutions to Build Reactor for Renewable Fuels

Cleantech start-up, CAPHENIA, to establish production plant for synthesis gas as feedstock for industrial production of Sustainable Aviation Fuel for aviation decarbonisation

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The University of Manchester and Shell partner to bring more sustainable chemical manufacturing to market

The SuCCEED project will look to find new ways of manufacturing the chemicals needed for many every-day products through industrial biotechnology routes

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7 December 20232 December 2023

Unlocking the green potential: Transforming industrial CO2 into acetone with carbon capture and utilisation technology

PyroCO2 is developing carbon capture and utilisation technology for climate-positive solutions in European chemical production

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6 December 20231 December 2023

SmartProSys: New Methods and Approaches for Process Engineering in future Chemical Industry

Team of scientists around Prof. Kai Sundmacher at MPI Magdeburg is participating in SmartProSys research initiative - Smart Process Systems for a Green Carbon-based Chemical Production in a Sustainable Society

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New approach to the sensible utilisation of carbon dioxide from car exhaust gases

Utilizing impure CO2 from car exhaust, the team of Prof. Dr. Shoubik Das, Chair of Organic Chemistry I at the University of Bayreuth, presents in a paper, which was published in Nature Communications, a cost-effective synthetic route for γ-lactams

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5 December 20234 December 2023

IFP Energies nouvelles and ResiCare, leaders in the development of a production process for the non-toxic* biobased molecule 5-HMF

They announce that all the stages of industrial development have been completed, from tests on various scales to pre-FEED and FEED engineering studies for an industrial unit

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4 December 202329 November 2023

Clariant’s SynDane® catalyst chosen for Shenghong’s new world-scale biodegradable plastics project 

One of the largest production plants for MA worldwide will have production capacity of 200,000 tons per year and is slated for start in 2025

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22 November 202316 November 2023

How to sustainably remove and recycle microplastics from water

Wasser 3.0, a non-profit start-up from Karlsruhe, has developed a customisable process to detect, remove and recycle microplastic pollutants

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Mikroplastik aus Wasser nachhaltig entfernen und wiederverwerten

Das gemeinnützige Start-up Wasser 3.0 hat ein Verfahren entwickelt, um Verschmutzungen mit Mikroplastik maßgeschneidert aufzuspüren, zu entfernen und anschließend wiederverwerten zu können

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20 November 202317 November 2023

CATCO2NVERS, CO2SMOS and VIVALDI to support the green transition towards a low-carbon circular economy by turning CO2 emissions into essential products

The use of carbon dioxide to produce essential carbon-containing products like chemicals, but also fuels and building materials can allow various processes to reach net zero or even negative CO2 emissions

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17 November 202315 November 2023

Emerging Molecules Produced Through Industrial Biomanufacturing

White biotechnology not only reduces society's dependence on fossil fuels, but also consumes less energy, generates minimal waste, and produces more environmentally friendly products

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16 November 202317 November 2023

Winter Special 2023 – 20% discount on market and trend reports on renewable carbon until 31 January 2024

From advanced recycling technologies, over bio- and CO2-based chemicals, building blocks and polymers to specific polymer insights: The latest nova-Institute reports around renewable carbon markets are available for a special price

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DMC opens new lab in Research Triangle Park, NC – New 9,500 Square Foot R&D Facility

The facility is home to DMC’s workflows in strain and metabolic engineering, high throughput testing, as well as bench and pilot scale fermentation

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8 November 20236 November 2023

Clariant and Technical University of Munich celebrate renewal of sustainability and catalysis alliance “MuniCat” 

Future collaboration ensures continuation of successful university-industry partnership in the area of sustainable chemistry and catalysis

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Sustainable feedstocks: Accelerating recarbonization in chemicals

Reducing greenhouse gases is essential for chemical companies to remain competitive. Investing in feedstock sources and conversion technologies can help close the gap to net zero

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7 November 20232 November 2023

Perstorp strengthens its sustainable offerings with 100% renewable based 2-Ethylhexanol

The new product grade is the world’s first 2-EH partly based on renewable raw materials, meeting the growing demand for more sustainable alternatives in various applications

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2 November 20232 November 2023

Kick-off von GreenCHEM – das Innovationsökosystem für Grüne Chemie

Berliner Universitäten kooperieren zur Unterstützung der Chemiewende

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GreenChem: Ecosystem for Green Chemistry Launches in Berlin

Berlin Universities Cooperate to Support Chemical Innovation