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Displaying 161 - 180 of 457 stories.
January 5, 2011
Virent Energy Systems (Madison, WI) and HCL CleanTech (Oxford, NC) say they have secured $900,000 in public funding for a project to demonstrate a process for converting cellulosic...http://www.chemweek.com/sustainability/biofuels/Virent-HCL-Secure-Funding-for-Pine-Tree-Sugars-to-Biomaterials-Project_31901.html January 5, 2011
Biotech start-up Qteros (Marlborough, MA) says it has successfully closed a deal to raise $22 million as part of its Series C round of financing. Qteros has developed Consolidated...http://www.chemweek.com/sustainability/biofuels/Qteros-Secures-$22-Million-of-Financing-to-Accelerate-Cellulosic-Ethanol-Program_31903.html December 27, 2010
The company will use the funding to move to commercial scale with its lead products and fund additional development projects....http://www.chemweek.com/sustainability/biofuels/LS9-Completes-$30-Million-Financing-Round_31760.html December 23, 2010
Deinove (Paris), a biotech start-up, says the European Patent Office (EPO) has sent the company an “intention to grant" notice for a “foundational” biomaterials...http://www.chemweek.com/sustainability/biofuels/Deinove-on-Track-to-Receive-Key-Biomaterials-Patent_31774.html December 16, 2010
Fine chemicals firm Novasep (Pompey, France), and Daniso (Copenhagen), say they have jointly developed a “cost-effective, environmentally friendly process” to produce...http://www.chemweek.com/sustainability/biofuels/Novasep-and-Danisco-Develop-Process-for-Betaine-from-Bioethanol_31615.html December 15, 2010
The J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI; San Diego, CA) announced in May of this year that it had, for the first time in scientific history, created a new, living microorganism in a...http://www.chemweek.com/sustainability/biofuels/Synthetic-Biology-Injecting-New-Life-into-the-Chemical-Industry_31497.html December 10, 2010
By Jim Stoppert CEO of Rivertop Renewables (Missoula, MT) Universally, companies in the green chemistry space are seeking to mitigate the negative economic and environmental...http://www.chemweek.com/sustainability/biofuels/Blog-Drop-in-Versus-Novel-Chemicals_31339.html December 10, 2010
Bayer Material Science (BMS) earlier today said it plans to begin commercial sale of polyols derived from CO2 within the next five years. Speaking in Leverkusen at Bayer’s annual...http://www.chemweek.com/sustainability/biofuels/Bayer-Moves-Closer-to-Commercializing-Polyols-from-CO2-with-video_31399.html December 8, 2010
Dineen, who also served as president of LyondellBasell's chemicals division, left LyondellBasell in early 2010 when the firm reorganized its management. Dineen replaces Bill Haywood, who served as LS9's CEO since September of 2008....http://www.chemweek.com/sustainability/biofuels/Former-LyondelBasell-Executive-to-Head-Synthetic-Bio-Startup_31423.html November 29, 2010
Süd-Chemie says it has formed an alliance with the Technical University of Munich (TUM; Munich) to cooperate on research in the field of catalysis. Süd-Chemie will invest...http://www.chemweek.com/sustainability/biofuels/Sud-Chemie-Invests-$31-Million-in-Catalyst-R-and-D-Alliance_31213.html November 26, 2010
Roquette (Lestrem, France), the world’s fourth largest producer of starch, says it plans to start producing commercial volumes of a range of bioplasticisers and biopolymers...http://www.chemweek.com/sustainability/biofuels/Roquette-Develops-Low-Toxicity-Bio-Alternatives-to-Phthalates-Bisphenol-A_31207.html November 26, 2010
Huntsman and its partners say that there is an increasingly bright future for the development and use of new products derived from biomaterials, and that activities in this field are...http://www.chemweek.com/sustainability/biofuels/Huntsman-Boosting-Innovation-through-Collaboration_31208.html November 26, 2010
Philippe Michaud, chief technology officer/Huntsman Advanced Materials in an interview with CW outlines a range of biomaterials projects and other innovations that Huntsman is seeking...http://www.chemweek.com/sustainability/biofuels/Huntsman-Develops-Biomaterials-video_31184.html November 24, 2010
Andre Genton, president/Huntsman Advanced Materials outlines plans for the business at its Technology Exchange Day meeting with academics and industry executives in Basel, Switzerland...http://www.chemweek.com/sustainability/biofuels/Huntsman-Outlines-Innovation-Plan-video_31183.html November 23, 2010
Food and industrial starch supplier Penford (Centennial, CO) says it is developing a renewable-based replacement for perfluoronated acrylic polymers used to provide oil and grease...http://www.chemweek.com/sustainability/biofuels/Penford-Pursuing-PFOA-Replacement_31000.html November 19, 2010
Brazilian petrochemicals firm Braskem (São Paulo) and trading company Toyota Tsusho (Nagoya, Japan) say a life-cycle assessment of Braskem’s polyethylene (PE) made from...http://www.chemweek.com/sustainability/biofuels/Life-Cycle-Assessment-of-Braskems-Green-PE-Shows-70-percent-Savings-in-GHG-Emissions_31101.html November 19, 2010
Rui Chammas, executive v.p./Braskem outlines the company's growth strategy for biopolymers at the recent 'K' Show held in Germany. source: KChannel...http://www.chemweek.com/sustainability/biofuels/Braskem-Outlines-Biopolymers-Growth-Plan-video_31099.html November 19, 2010
The European Commission has cleared Syngenta’s acquisition of Monsanto’s global sunflower seeds business. The deal combines two leading sunflower seed suppliers in Europe...http://www.chemweek.com/sustainability/biofuels/EU-Approves-Syngentas-Sunflower-Purchase-from-Monsanto-with-Conditions_31097.html November 18, 2010
(scroll down for video of John Shanklin). Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and Dow AgroSciences say they have engineered plants that for the first time produce...http://www.chemweek.com/sustainability/biofuels/Dow-and-DOE-Grow-Plants-with-Industrially-Relevant-Levels-of-Plastics_30905.html November 16, 2010
The project will be supported by unspecified investments from both Department of Energy (DOE) and LanzaTech....http://www.chemweek.com/sustainability/biofuels/LanzaTech-PNNL-Partner-in-Syngas-to-Jet-Fuel-Project_30976.html |
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