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GranBio and Rhodia sign partnership deal to produce bio n-butanol 23 Aug 2013 | 12:36 pm
GranBio, a Brazilian biotechnology company, and Rhodia, a Solvay Group company, have signed an agreement to create a partnership to produce bio n-butanol. Bio n-butanol is made from sugar cane straw a...
NatureFlex™ Packaging Film Adopted by Fair Trade Tea Company 22 Aug 2013 | 05:51 pm
Innovia Films’ compostable cellulose-based material, NatureFlex™ NVR, has been chosen by French company, Les Jardins de Gaïa to pack its range of organic teas in individual sachets. Founded in 1994, L...
Corbion Purac at K 2013: unveiling PLA partnerships for new bioplastic applications 22 Aug 2013 | 04:23 pm
Corbion Purac bioplastics will be exhibiting at the K trade fair in Dusseldorf under the theme 'partnering for bioplastics growth'. To highlight the most recent developments in PLA (Poly Lactic Acid),...
Child Bicycle Carriers Made From Cereplast Bioplastics 21 Aug 2013 | 07:11 pm
MammaCangura by Bellelli, a world leader in the design and manufacture of child bicycle carriers and trailers, is launching a line of child bicycle carriers made from Cereplast Biopropylene® 101. Mam...
Cereplast and Bioplastics: The Next Five Years 14 Aug 2013 | 04:32 pm
Cereplast, Inc.a leading manufacturer of proprietary biobased, compostable and sustainable bioplastics, today is providing an outlook on the bioplastics industry over the next five years and the Compa...
What if plants could be plastic factories? 14 Aug 2013 | 04:29 pm
The greenhouse at Metabolix’s lab is full of grass. That would be unexciting, except that the 300 or so pots of switchgrass growing here have been genetically engineered to produce a kind of polymer u...
Pancake Parlour Restaurants lead the way with a "go green strategy" 9 Aug 2013 | 04:23 pm
The Melbourne Pancake Parlour Restaurants lead the way with a ”go green strategy” to lower their carbon footprint using Cardia’s environmentally friendly customer carrier bags and in-store waste manag...
Building a Bio-based Economy for Europe for 2020 6 Aug 2013 | 05:30 pm
The vision of a society that is far less dependent on fossil fuels for energy and industrial raw materials is closer than ever to becoming a reality in Europe. The application of biotechnology for the...
Sustainable packaging market to reach $244 billion by 2018 2 Aug 2013 | 06:56 pm
Leatherhead, UK. The global market for sustainable packaging is forecast to reach $244 billion by 2018, according to a new market report from Smithers Pira, the worldwide authority on the paper, packa...
USDA Designates New Biobased Product Categories 12 Jul 2013 | 02:26 pm
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture has designated eight new biobased product categories for preferred Federal procurement. The announcement furth...
