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Tetra Pak: Another milestone in a long line of bio-based innovations

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Headquarter of Tetra Pak

A new version of Tetra Pak’s Tetra Top® package, more than 80% of which comes from plant-based materials, will make its global debut in the United States with JUST™ water. To announce it was last Friday the Swedish multinational company. The new generation carton bottle now comes with a cap and top made from high-density polyethylene (HDPE) derived from sugarcane. Combined with the FSC™ certified paperboard used in the main sleeve of the carton, this pushes its renewable content up from 53% to 82%, with no impact to its recyclability. This unique bio-based bottle delivers another milestone in a long line of successful environmental innovations at Tetra Pak.

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Willem Sederel talks to Il Bioeconomista. An interview with the GM of the Biobased Delta

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Willem Sederel. Source: www.biobaseddelta.nl
Willem Sederel. Source: http://www.biobaseddelta.nl

“The Dutch Bioeconomy is based on world class farming and agro-industry with very high yields and productivity per hectare. Whereas the country is small in terms of size, often reflected in small to medium size farms, it plays a leading role in Europe in the agro food sector”. What differentiates the Dutch bioeconomy from other European bioeconomies? We have asked this to Willem Sederel, general manager of the Dutch Biobased Delta, who talks to Il Bioeconomista, right after the fourth EU Bioeconomy Stakeholders’ Conference that took place last 12-13 April in Utrecht.

Interview by Mario Bonaccorso 

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Global Bioenergies delivers renewable isobutene to Arlanxeo for bio-based tires

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Arlanxeo's presentation, 6 April 2016
Arlanxeo’s presentation, 6 April 2016

Global Bioenergies, the French company which is developing a process to convert renewable resources into hydrocarbons through fermentation, have delivered isobutene produced at its industrial pilot to Arlanxeo, a world leader in high‐quality synthetic rubbers headquartered in the Netherlands.

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The future of Clariant is bio-based

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Clariant new R&D center in Planegg, near Munich

Clariant’s cellulosic ethanol using sunliquid® technology can achieve price competitiveness with sugarcane ethanol pricing in Brazil. To say it is the Swiss chemical company in a note.

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Bio-based agreement in Canada between Comet and BioAmber

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Trans Alta Energy Park in Sarnia, Ontario

Comet Biorefining, the Canadian bio-based company, has signed an off-take agreement with bio-succinic acid producer BioAmber for high-purity dextrose from Comet’s planned commercial plant in Sarnia, Ontario. 
The dextrose will be produced from agricultural residues using Comet’s innovative technology.

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Bio-on and Tampere University of Technology: the milk carton goes green

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Tampere University of Technology, Finland

Bio-on, an Italian industrial biotech company, yesterday announced a major result achieved thanks to its new collaboration with Tampere University of Technology Finland, one of the most important centers in the world for research and innovation in the use of paper and plastic for food packaging. “A joint project launched in 2015 has produced for the very first time tetrapak type containers made of a combination of paper and bioplastic, namely the special grade EC (Extrusion Coating) of the Minerv PHA biopolymer”.

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Kläusli, Ava Biochem: The bioeconomy is the biggest chance we have to decarbonise our world

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Ava Biochem“The bioeconomy is the biggest chance we have to decarbonise our world and make it a more sustainable place”. Thomas Kläusli, Chief Marketing Officer at AVA Biochem and AVA-CO2, talks to Il Bioeconomista. AVA Biochem is a subsidiary of AVA-CO2 Schweiz AG, which produces the premium platform chemical 5-Hydroxymethylfurfural (5-HMF) from renewable biomass, and delivers to industrial and research customers around the globe. “5-HMF – the Swiss manager say – can be used for many applications, including the bioplastics industry”.

Interview by Mario Bonaccorso

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Catia Bastioli talks to Il Bioeconomista. An exclusive interview with the Ceo of Novamont

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“To pass laws that can make a difference means overcoming the braking action of those who defend and feed the advantageous position, put into practice the good industry and multiply virtuous cases there are in our country. Much of the Italian industry has invested and is investing in the development of new products and “green” technologies, and now considers sustainability as an opportunity rather than a constraint”. Catia Bastioli talks to Il Bioeconomista. In this exclusive interview with the Chief Executive Officer of Novamont, considered as the beacon of Italian bioeconomy, we talk about bioeconomy, circular economy and climate change. A few days before the 4th EU Bioeconomy Stakeholders’ Conference in Utrecht, Bastioli gives us her vision to fully realize in Italy and Europe the new economy based on biological resources, able to create wealth and jobs, starting from the local areas.

Interview by Mario Bonaccorso

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The Bioeconomy Revolution: the new ebook on world bioeconomy

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The cover of the ebook
The cover of the ebook

The Bioeconomy Revolution has just begun. The Bioeconomy Revolution is the new ebook on world bioeconomy published by Edizioni Ambiente, the main Italian publisher focused on green economy, bioeconomy and circular economy.

The ebook has the privilege of hosting the preface written by Christian Patermann, the man who is considered as the “father” of the European bioeconomy:

“The Bioeconomy Revolution” is not just another book to be added to the growing number of publications worldwide on the Bioeconomy and more recently on the so-called circular economy.

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Cologne center of gravity of the innovative bio-based materials

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Michael Carus, Ceo of nova-Institut, with the representatives of the three companies awarded in Cologne. Copyright: nova-Institut

Last Tuesday in Cologne, at the 9th International Conference on Bio-based Materials organized by the nova-Institut, the Innovation Award “Bio-based Material of the Year 2016” was awarded to three innovative materials in suitable applications. The competition focused on new developments in the bio-based economy, which have had (or will have) a market launch in 2015 or 2016.

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