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Chemistry World
October 16, 2014
Rebecca Trager |
Bio-based chemicals on the rise in US The bio-based products and renewable chemical industry in the US is growing and offers significant economic benefits, including job creation in numerous sectors, according to the US Department of Agriculture   |
Chemistry World
March 6, 2014
Jose Lopez-Sanchez |
The future of feedstocks Can we replace fossil fuel-derived feedstocks with sustainable bio-based alternatives? |
Chemistry World
May 25, 2011
James Urquhart |
Engineered bacterium to take on petrochemicals producers US sustainable chemicals company Genomatica has demonstrated a commercially viable approach for turning sugar into 1,4-butanediol -- a globally important petrochemical intermediate - using a metabolically engineered strain of E. coli. |
Chemistry World
October 8, 2014
Emma Stephen |
Sawdust cellulose offers alkane pipeline A new way for converting cellulose into liquid straight-chain alkanes may provide a viable alternative route to chemicals traditionally sourced from crude oil. |
Chemistry World
August 2, 2013
Phillip Broadwith |
Palm kernel oil to polyamide German speciality chemicals firm Evonik has announced that it is producing bio-based I -amino lauric acid at a pilot-scale plant in Slovakia. |
Chemistry World
January 21, 2010
Phil Taylor |
Biosuccinic acid ready for take off? Faced with escalating oil prices that are likely to continue rising, the chemical industry is trying to find alternative sources for a number of the chemical ingredients derived from petroleum and other fossil-sources. |
Chemistry World
January 29, 2013
Laura Howes |
Five green chemical feedstock projects launched The UK's Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council has announced 10.7 million pounds, in combination with 1.1 million pounds from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, to fund five projects to develop new bio-based feedstocks for the chemical industry. |
Chemistry World
June 29, 2009
Anna Lewcock |
Going green with white biotech Industrial biotech has also been growing steadily in the chemicals sector, and in 2007 six per cent of all chemical sales were generated with the help of enzymes - so-called 'white' biotech. |
Chemistry World
October 1, 2013
Eleanor Merritt |
New software for creating green solvents Scientists in France have developed a computer-assisted organic synthesis program to design sustainable solvents from bio-based building blocks. |
Chemistry World
June 11, 2012 |
Coca-Cola collaborates on bio-PET project Coca-Cola is talking about its bottles again and specifically how it might make them out of bio-based polymers -- compounds that have been made from biological, and therefore renewable, raw materials, such as plants, rather than petrochemicals. |
Chemistry World
February 16, 2010
Sean Milmo |
New scheme to boost bio-based chemistry The European Commission has launched an initiative to help chemical companies switch to renewable feedstocks and energy sources. |
Chemistry World
September 24, 2012
Samantha Cheung |
Tumors reprogram nylon synthesis Cancer mutations have inspired a redesign of an enzyme to catalyze a key step in the bio-based production of adipic acid, a precursor to nylon. |
IndustryWeek
August 1, 2004
Tonya Vinas |
Making Waves Dubbed the 'third wave' of biotechnology, after medicine and agriculture, industrial biotechnology is promising to reshape manufacturing. |
Chemistry World
July 23, 2015
Andy Extance |
Chemical firms seek better grasp of biomanufacturing Hope and expectation surround the chemical industry's increasing adoption of biotechnological manufacturing -- but today, their lengthy development times and complex processes mean frustration is a major by-product. |
IEEE Spectrum
October 2010
Paul McFedries |
The Age of Spimes Life cycle assessment attempts to quantify the total environmental impact of all the inputs and processes used to take a product from raw materials to its final form. |
Chemistry World
September 18, 2012
James Urquhart |
UN report urges chemical industry to clean-up Governments and industry worldwide must address the management of chemicals in order to curtail the escalating heath and environmental risks associated with the widespread production, use and disposal of chemicals, warns the United Nations Environment Program. |
National Defense
April 2009 |
On Biofuels Looking at alternatives to fossil fuel. |
Chemistry World
January 7, 2014
Phillip Broadwith |
All hail shale The US shale gas boom has continued to drive recovery for the country's chemical industry this year. Access to cheap feedstocks and energy has allowed US producers to compete strongly in the global market |
IndustryWeek
April 1, 2007
John Teresko |
DuPont Does The DNA Dance Biotechnology is reshaping the world through our medicine, food, agriculture, materials and fuel. DuPont sees biotech as the ideal tool to improve productivity, quality and sustainability. |
Chemistry World
March 13, 2015
Phillip Broadwith |
BASF introduces bio-based polyTHF Chemical giant BASF has begun commercial production of polytetrahydrofuran (polyTHF) derived entirely from biomass feedstocks. |
Chemistry World
November 28, 2012
Andrew Turley |
Lignin to lead bio-based chemicals? Lignin could come become the primary source of bio-based aromatic compounds for the chemical industry, according to a new report. |
