These micronized innovations are based on renewable raw materials in different particle size distributions that support customers’ ambitions to offer more sustainable solutions to industrial markets without compromising performance.

Analysis presented during the recent Bloomberg New Energy Finance annual summit in New York offered more evidence that the tide is slowly turning against fossil fuels.

Kraton Performance Polymers Inc. has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire all of the capital stock of privately held Arizona Chemical Holdings Corp. for a cash purchase price of $1.37 billion.

A new report by research firm MarketsandMarkets predicts that the renewable chemicals market will grow from an estimated $57.5 billion in 2012 to $83.4 billion by 2018, with a CAGR of 7.7 percent from 2013 to 2018.

Myriant Corp., a global renewable chemicals company headquartered in Quincy, MA, announced the successful start-up at its flagship bio-succinic acid plant located in Lake Providence, LA.

Green Biologics Limited (GBL), a UK-based industrial biotechnology company, announced the merger between GBL and butylfuel™ Inc., a U.S.-based renewable chemicals and biofuels company.