The Dow Chemical Company unveiled its Blueprint for Sustainable Watershed Management to a multi-stakeholder session of The CEO Water Mandate. Part of Dow’s 2025 “Leading the Blueprint” Sustainability Goal, the blueprint is built on the Company’s collaborative watershed management practices.
Neste explores ways to introduce liquefied waste plastic as a raw material for fossil refining
Neste, the world’s leading producer of renewable diesel based in Espoo, Finland, is now exploring ways to introduce liquefied waste plastic as a future raw material for fossil refining. The aim of the development project is to proceed to industrial scale trial during 2019. The company’s target is to process annually more than one million tons of waste plastic by 2030.
AkzoNobel and Renmatix jointly develop biomass-based performance additives
AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals and Renmatix, a leader in the global plant-based technology movement, will jointly develop biomass-based performance additives that improve the properties of architectural paints and construction materials. Renmatix is one of the winners of the 2017 Imagine Chemistry challenge, a program through which AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals collaborates with startups, scale-ups, scientists and others to uncover business opportunities for sustainable chemistry.
Biochemtex and Beta Renewables are for sale
Court of Alessandria
Bankruptcy Section
Notice of initiation of a competitive procedure
pursuant to art. 163 bis L.F.
Biochemtex S.p.A. (No. 9/17), Beta Renewables S.p.A. (No. 10/17), IBP Energia S.r.l. (No. 11/17) and the Italian Bio Products S.r.l. (No. 13/17) companies belonging to the industrial group Mossi & Ghisolfi S.p.A., with registered office in Tortona (AL), Strada Ribrocca 11
given that
Canada is leading the way in the bioeconomy
Large research infrastructures, a chemical and paper industry supporting a sector that is considered strategic, clusters that are able to build extended value chains, universities at the level of excellence and a federal government and provinces with a vision and an effective action plan. These are shortly all the strengths of the bioeconomy in Canada, as I saw them last week.
From Ruka to Turin: September will be the month of circular bioeconomy
From Ruka, in Finland, to Turin, in Italy: September will be the month of the bioeconomy. The very first World BioEconomy Forum will be held in Ruka on 11-13 September. The Forum, born as an idea of Jukka Kantola, CEO of NC Partnering and KaiCell Fibers, will bring together professionals from the leading edge of the bioeconomy for face-to-face dialog in one of the world’s most beautiful areas of outstanding natural beauty. In Turin on 27-28 September will be held IFIB, the International Forum on Industrial Biotechnology and Bioeconomy.
The partners of the BIOPEN project carried out 5 perspective studies: the global market for bioproducts should reach $714.6 billion by 2021
The partners of the BIOPEN project carried out 5 perspective studies, that have been centered around two axis: raw materials and intermediate and end products. Raw materials include lignocellulosic biomass, micro and macro algae, and waste. Products are categorised into bio-energy, bulk products (eg. bio-aromatics), biofuels and energy carriers, intermediate chemicals (syngas, glucose, lipids etc.).
Global Bioenergies and Audi renew their partnership in renewable gasoline
French biotech company Global Bioenergies and German cars manufacturer Audi signed a new agreement focused on the implementation of residue usage, preparation of a path to commercialization and engine testing of new blends. Following the completion of a first series of engine testing and significant progresses of the isobutene bioproduction process, the two companies have agreed to start a new program.
UK: waste feedstocks for flight to help decarbonize the aviation sector
LanzaTech, Virgin Atlantic and partners are one-step closer to building the world’s first large scale Alcohol to Jet (ATJ) facility producing commercial quantities of fuel in the UK. The commercial facility would convert low carbon ethanol produced from waste emissions, to jet fuel.
Tour de France: Royal DSM partners with Team Sunweb. A natural ingredient can reduce the toxic effects of exercise by more than half
Royal DSM, the Dutch global science-based company in Nutrition, Health and Sustainable Living, is helping professional cyclists Team Sunweb to recover faster in this year’s Tour de France with its dietary antiplatelet, Fruitflow®. This forms part of the innovation partnership between DSM and Team Sunweb that aims to improve the health, nutrition and cycling materials of the professional athletes.
