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Neste to acquire used cooking oil collection and aggregation business from Crimson Renewable Energy in the US

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Neste’s headquarter in Espoo, Finland

Neste, the world’s leading producer of renewable diesel and sustainable aviation fuel produced from waste and residue raw materials, has agreed to acquire the used cooking oil (UCO) collection and aggregation business and related assets in the United States from Crimson Renewable Energy Holdings, LLC. The transaction includes shares in SeQuential Environmental Services, LLC, and Pure, LLC, as well as a UCO processing plant in Salem, Oregon. The transaction is subject to the fulfillment of customary closing conditions and regulatory approval.

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TotalEnergies Corbion and BGF enter a long-term collaboration

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Thomas Philipon and Mr. Hong showcasing the Luminy PLA based noodle cups .

Be Good Friends (BGF) and TotalEnergies Corbion entered a long-term collaborative arrangement for application development and the supply of Luminy® PLA. Both leading bioplastic companies are focused on the development and production of biodegradable materials and products.

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Evonik provides tire industry with silica made from biobased raw materials

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Evonik, one of the world’s leading silica producers, entered a strategic cooperation with the Pörner Group, Austria, and Phichit Bio Power Co., Ltd., Thailand, to supply sustainable ULTRASIL® precipitated silica to tire manufacturers. The key raw material for the sustainable silica is sodium silicate, which is derived from rice husk ash (RHA), an agricultural waste product, and produced exclusively with green energy.

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Stora Enso launched a wood building kit to meet the demand for sustainable construction solutions

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Stora Enso launched Sylva™ by Stora Enso to meet the demand for sustainable and innovative construction solutions,. Sylva is a massive wood building kit comprising pre-manufactured, custom-made applications delivered just-in-time to the building site. The solution enables faster construction, reduced costs, more efficient use of raw material and fewer emissions than concrete or steel. 

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Urban waste as opportunity for the bioplastic sector: Novamont and the Circular Biocarbon flagship project

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Novamont’s Headquarter in Novara (Italy)

Turning organic urban waste streams into value–added products. This is the title of a workshop organized by Iclei Europe in the framework of Circular Week 2022, the international campaign that promotes the idea of circular economy, supports sustainable business models and establishes cooperation between interested stakeholders in Europe. 

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Metsä Group’s pine sawmill inaugurated in Rauma

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The new Rauma pine sawmill of Metsä Fibre, part of Metsä Group, was inaugurated last Monday, 10 October 2022, by Prime Minister Sanna Marin with Ilkka Hämälä, Metsä Group’s President and CEO, and Jussi Linnaranta, Chair of the Board of Directors of Metsäliitto Cooperative.

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An interview with Kelly Smith, VP R&D DMC Biotech

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“The crises, while tragic, created an opportunity to rethink security of supply in terms of where things are manufactured, and DMC is positioned to lead the change. It has taken time to get to this point. Nobody really saw the benefit of shortening supply chains until we had these recent crises. And all of a sudden, everyone is talking about logistics.” Kelly Smith, VP R&D at DMC Biotech talks with Il Bioeconomista.

Interview by Mario Bonaccorso

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LanzaTech signed a funding partnership with Brookfield Renewable

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Babette Pettersen, VP Europe at LanzaTech at IFIB 2022’s round table on SAF

LanzaTech, an innovative Carbon Capture and Transformation (“CCT”) company that transforms waste carbon into materials such as sustainable fuels, fabrics, packaging, and other products that people use in their daily lives, signed a funding partnership with Brookfield Renewable, and its institutional partners, to co-develop and build new commercial-scale production plants that will employ LanzaTech’s CCT technology, which transforms captured carbon into valuable raw material commodities.

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Stora Enso and EcoTelligent Oy joined forces to advance sustainable wood-based telecom towers

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Stora Enso paper mill in Hyltebruk (Sweden)

A new partnership between Stora Enso and EcoTelligent Oy will establish mass timber as the material of choice for telecommunication support structures. The collaboration is set to provide an alternative that will reduce the dependency on steel and concrete in telecom masts, through sustainable towers that naturally blend in with the environment. 

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Bioeconomy stakeholders are gathering in Bari at IFIB to shape our sustainable future

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Bari is the world capital of the bioeconomy. The International Forum on Industrial Biotechnology and Bioeconomy (IFIB) is taking place in Apulia this year at the Bari Chamber of Commerce. And it is completely physical.

With more than 170 delegates in attendance from approximately 20 different countries from all around the world, the conference truly succeeds one more time in its ambitions aim to be one of the leading bioeconomy event at global level.

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