Articles Tagged with ''bio-based raw materials''

Virent has appointed Edgar Steenwinkel to be the company’s Vice President of Research and Development.

Following its recent acquisition of the U.S.-based biotechnology company Virdia, Stora Enso is investing €32 million in a demonstration and market development plant to be built in Raceland, Louisiana.

Bioproducts manufacturer Solazyme Inc. and AkzoNobel have expanded their previous joint development agreement.

Commercial-scale production of the high-purity renewable platform chemical, 5-hydroxymethylfurfural(5-HMF), has started at the Biochem-1 facility operated by AVA Biochem in Muttenz, Switzerland.

Elevance Renewable Sciences Inc. announced that Steven Mills, former Chief Financial Officer at Amyris Inc., is joining the company’s Board of Directors.

Clariant is incorporating renewable raw materials into Quinacridone pigments produced at its Frankfurt-Hoechst facility in Germany.

Sartomer Americas has earned the Certified Biobased Product designation from the USDA for its entire Sarbio^® line of 13 specialty acrylates and methacrylates.

BASF has produced its first commercial volumes of 1,4-butanediol (BDO) from renewable raw material, and is offering this product to customers for testing and commercial use.

Specialty chemicals company Elevance Renewable Sciences Inc., Woodridge, IL, has authorized the next stage of its second world-scale biorefinery in Natchez, MS, in order to expand production of its Inherent™ renewable building blocks.

OPX Biotechnologies Inc. (OPXBIO) and Evonik Industries AG have entered into an agreement to jointly develop certain bio-based specialty chemicals.