With the steel work that will house the main process reactor in place at its Atlas Point manufacturing site in New Castle, DE, Croda International Plc came a step closer to completing the first plant of its type in North America that will manufacture 100-percent renewable non-ionic surfactants.
In collaboration with several partners, including the special contribution of Versalis under a strategic partnership started in early 2014, Elevance Renewable Sciences Inc. has successfully completed scale-up of a second-generation biorefinery technology of the company’s olefin metathesis technology, utilizing ethylene and natural oil feedstocks.
Science and agricultural leaders DuPont Industrial Biosciences (DuPont) and Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) announced a new breakthrough process with the potential to expand the materials landscape in the 21st century with novel, high-performance renewable materials.
BioAmber Inc., a leader in renewable materials, announced that its Sarnia, Ontario, production plant, which is jointly owned with Mitsui & Co., has received ISO 9001, ISO 14001, OHSAS 18001 and FSSC 22000 certifications.
Producing high-purity silicon compounds is today an expensive and carbon-intensive process that requires heating mined silicon metal and anthracite coal to 3500 °C in an electric arc furnace. That could soon change, thanks to a new technology that can produce the same silica compounds from agricultural waste.
Covestro, previously known as Bayer MaterialScience, has won a sustainability award for an innovative polyurethane paint hardener at the 2015 British Coatings Federation Awards.
Solvay subsidiary Advanced Biochemical Thailand Co. Ltd. (ABT) has received certification from the Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials (RSB) for the production of Epicerol®, a bio-based building block for renewable chemicals and resins.
Green Biologics Ltd., a UK-based industrial biotechnology and renewable chemicals company, is moving forward with the construction of its 100-percent renewable, bio-based n-butanol and acetone manufacturing facility in Little Falls, MN.
