The Technology Strategy Board, has awarded a grant to a consortium led by Biome Technologies, to investigate a bio-based alternative to the oil-dervied organic chemicals currently used. Although bioplastics are based on natural materials, ...
Tags: Packaging, Biome Technologies
Shipping has so far not benefited from the research and development that has turned biomass into one of the world's most important sources of renewable energy. Two projects involving Maersk aim to change that. With an annual fuel bill of ...
The study'Natural Polymers to 2016'analyzes the U.S.natural polymer industry.It presents historical demand data for the years 2001,2006 and 2011,and forecasts for 2016 and 2021 by market(e.g.,medical,food and ...
Tags: natural polymer industry, historical demand data, Cellulose ether, study
The European Community's Seventh Framework Program has granted funds to Dyadic International's research and development center in the Netherlands, a member of the Bio-Mimetic Project, to develop enzymes. As part of the Bio-Mimetic ...
Tags: Bio-Mimetic Project, C1 platform technology, modify lignin
National Jute Board (NJB) is actively engaged in market development of jute products and as part of its promotional activity, a ‘jute festival’ is being organized at Chennai. Nearly 35 jute entrepreneurs from different states ...
The Society of Plastics Engineers(SPE)held its annual Automotive Composites Conference&Exhibition(ACCE)at the Michigan State University's Management Education Center in Troy,Mich.,from Sept.11 to 13.The current uptick in the automotive ...
Tags: automotive industry, automotive composites, preforms, carbon material
Sustainable packaging upstart Ecovative Design LLC has received tremendous attention over the past year for its disruptive technology introduction of protective packaging materials grown from agricultural byproducts bound together by ...
This post offers an overview of a patented new process being used by Renmatix to achieve physical transformation of sustainably produced plant cellulose to bio-available sugars (the kind of affordable sugars industrial bugs will thrive on). ...
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