The document summarizes the latest news from the global bio-based chemicals and materials sector for business members. Key highlights include:
- Nestlé calling for more energy recovery from difficult to recycle plastic waste streams like composites.
- Solazyme announcing the commissioning of their first algal oil biorefinery in Illinois.
- Renmatix unveiling a new R&D facility to explore sustainable feedstock sources for biobased chemicals, including waste.
Biopark Terneuzen in the Netherlands promotes sustainability by facilitating synergistic partnerships between local businesses. It helps companies maximize the potential of by-products and waste by converting them into feedstock, energy, or utilities for other production processes through its "Smart Link" program. This industrial symbiosis reduces costs and environmental impacts while improving profits for participating businesses.
The document discusses bioplastics and their advantages over traditional petroleum-based plastics. It defines bioplastics as plastics derived from plant products like soybean oil, corn, or potato starch, as opposed to conventional plastics which are derived from petroleum. It highlights polylactic acid (PLA), which is synthesized from corn, as the most developed bioplastic currently. The document also discusses polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) which are polymers produced by bacteria and have biodegradable properties. It states that research into bioplastics is focused on developing materials that can replace non-renewable resource-based polymers while providing benefits like biodegradability and renewable sourcing.
Praxair is a Fortune 300 industrial gas company with $10 billion in annual sales. It operates in over 30 countries and serves over 1 million customers worldwide in industries such as aerospace, chemicals, electronics, energy, food and beverage, healthcare, manufacturing, and metals. Praxair produces atmospheric gases through cryogenic air separation and non-cryogenic methods, as well as process gases. It provides gases, gas delivery systems, technical expertise and other services to help customers improve productivity and meet environmental and safety standards.
This document provides guidance on how to assess the sustainability of products and the companies that make them. It explains that sustainability is complex and cannot be determined by a single green label or product attribute. The guide covers understanding a product's life cycle and environmental performance, common categories of environmental impact assessed in life cycle assessments (LCAs), how to interpret LCA results and profiles, examples of LCAs for different product types like carpets, and why embodied energy is important to consider. It also identifies common misleading "green" marketing claims and provides a glossary of terms associated with greenwashing.
Our program is meant to provide Real Estate Investors with an avenue to expand their Real Estate portfolio, without having to utilize all of their investment dollars into one project, and the ability to have all the required positions in place to run your real estate business from Day One of the contract.
Radiation occurs naturally in many materials found in everyday life. Uranium and thorium are naturally occurring radioactive elements found in the earth's crust. Traces of uranium and thorium are present in glazed ceramics, glass objects, welding rods, camera lenses, and other materials. Other naturally occurring radionuclides like potassium-40, radium-226, and americium-241 are found in bananas, brazil nuts, smoke detectors, and other common items. While radiation is present in many objects and foods, the levels are typically very low and do not pose health risks.
This document discusses how biotech tools are helping to convert carbon dioxide into useful products through genetic engineering of microorganisms. Several companies are engineering cyanobacteria and other microbes to produce fuels and chemicals like ethanol directly from CO2. One company has genetically modified Synechococcus cyanobacteria to overexpress enzymes to produce ethanol from CO2. Another company is using Clostridium bacteria optimized through directed evolution to produce ethanol from waste gases from steel plants. These approaches aim to provide carbon capture and utilization at smaller scales than traditional chemical approaches.
Biopark Terneuzen in the Netherlands promotes sustainability by facilitating synergistic partnerships between local businesses. It helps companies maximize the potential of by-products and waste by converting them into feedstock, energy, or utilities for other production processes through its "Smart Link" program. This industrial symbiosis reduces costs and environmental impacts while improving profits for participating businesses.
The document discusses bioplastics and their advantages over traditional petroleum-based plastics. It defines bioplastics as plastics derived from plant products like soybean oil, corn, or potato starch, as opposed to conventional plastics which are derived from petroleum. It highlights polylactic acid (PLA), which is synthesized from corn, as the most developed bioplastic currently. The document also discusses polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) which are polymers produced by bacteria and have biodegradable properties. It states that research into bioplastics is focused on developing materials that can replace non-renewable resource-based polymers while providing benefits like biodegradability and renewable sourcing.
Praxair is a Fortune 300 industrial gas company with $10 billion in annual sales. It operates in over 30 countries and serves over 1 million customers worldwide in industries such as aerospace, chemicals, electronics, energy, food and beverage, healthcare, manufacturing, and metals. Praxair produces atmospheric gases through cryogenic air separation and non-cryogenic methods, as well as process gases. It provides gases, gas delivery systems, technical expertise and other services to help customers improve productivity and meet environmental and safety standards.
This document provides guidance on how to assess the sustainability of products and the companies that make them. It explains that sustainability is complex and cannot be determined by a single green label or product attribute. The guide covers understanding a product's life cycle and environmental performance, common categories of environmental impact assessed in life cycle assessments (LCAs), how to interpret LCA results and profiles, examples of LCAs for different product types like carpets, and why embodied energy is important to consider. It also identifies common misleading "green" marketing claims and provides a glossary of terms associated with greenwashing.
Our program is meant to provide Real Estate Investors with an avenue to expand their Real Estate portfolio, without having to utilize all of their investment dollars into one project, and the ability to have all the required positions in place to run your real estate business from Day One of the contract.
Radiation occurs naturally in many materials found in everyday life. Uranium and thorium are naturally occurring radioactive elements found in the earth's crust. Traces of uranium and thorium are present in glazed ceramics, glass objects, welding rods, camera lenses, and other materials. Other naturally occurring radionuclides like potassium-40, radium-226, and americium-241 are found in bananas, brazil nuts, smoke detectors, and other common items. While radiation is present in many objects and foods, the levels are typically very low and do not pose health risks.
This document discusses how biotech tools are helping to convert carbon dioxide into useful products through genetic engineering of microorganisms. Several companies are engineering cyanobacteria and other microbes to produce fuels and chemicals like ethanol directly from CO2. One company has genetically modified Synechococcus cyanobacteria to overexpress enzymes to produce ethanol from CO2. Another company is using Clostridium bacteria optimized through directed evolution to produce ethanol from waste gases from steel plants. These approaches aim to provide carbon capture and utilization at smaller scales than traditional chemical approaches.
This document summarizes research from Scion, a New Zealand research organization, on biopolymers and chemicals from 2014-2015. It discusses how Scion is supporting manufacturers through research on sustainable and biobased resources. Key points include Scion developing an eco-friendly bioplastic alternative to polystyrene foam called ZealaFoam, research finding that a biocomposite reinforced with wood fibers can be highly recyclable, and industrial extrusion trials being assisted by computer simulation to optimize natural fiber compounding processes.
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Anaerobic digestion is emerging as a way to generate sustainable energy from food waste while also addressing the issue of food waste. The global market for anaerobic digesters was nearly $4.5 billion in 2013 and is projected to reach $7 billion by 2018. Research is exploring using biogas from anaerobic digestion as a feedstock for producing bioplastics in a closed resource loop. Studies have shown the technical feasibility of generating bioplastic resins from biogas and current companies are implementing this approach.
Resource Efficiency - The new watchword of sustainabilityRamon Arratia
There’s a growing global consensus that we’re at a crossroads on the environment. Not only do we face the increasingly urgent challenge of climate change, but we are also witnessing unprecedented demands on energy and fuel, water and material resource scarcity, huge population and life expectancy growth, concerns about food security, and a growing consumerism in the East that is putting an added strain on the global store of raw materials.
Resource productivity improvements could satisfy nearly 30% of demand by 2030.
Recent rises in global GDP and inroads into tackling poverty have largely been achieved by increasing economic growth. But the resource- dependent models that have allowed this to happen can no longer be sustained. In the past, increases in productivity have often come through more efficient use of labour, but the opportunity for further gains here is limited. To continue to make progress we need to squeeze more out of the resources at our disposal.
‘Resource efficiency’ will become the new watchword of sustainability. Accenture and the World Economic Forum recently produced a report looking at how to make consumption more sustainable by decoupling growth from environmental impact. They suggested that $2 trillion manufacturers of products that worth of economic output could be at risk by 2030 if major global economies fail to respond to shortages in the supply of just one resource - iron (and, more importantly, the steel that comes from it). This demonstrates the scale of the challenge we are up against. Accenture and the WEF conclude that ‘the need for rapid action to shift towards a resource-efficient economy is high’ - and that despite some successes to date, ‘change is now. More positively, greater resource efficiency also creates a business opportunity; it improves productivity, reduces costs and enhances competitiveness. If companies are less dependent on the availability of certain raw materials, they are less vulnerable to supply fluctuations and hikes in prices. This in turn means they can offer customers a more reliable supply of their products.
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CELLUWOOD ( “Laminated Strong Eco-Material for Building Construction Made of Cellulose-Strengthened Wood - Final Outcomes”) was a four years EU project, funded under the Eco-Innovation research initiative. The project aims to develop a new range of structural elements made of wood by introducing innovative production elements and includes the use of cellulose instead of petroleum-based glue in the lamination of the timber products. The main results will be the strong eco-beams and eco-columns and their most sustainable manufacturing technologies, in addition to significant environmental and cost benefits of the innovation. These are achieved by the introduction of the (new) technologies from other sectors (e.g. cellulose velvet, biocomposite reinforcement and bio-resin) for innovative uses in the defect removal and repairing, facilitating innovation in the use of nano-cellulose and bio-resin technologies in timber reengineering, and the development, testing and demonstration of the new innovative products.
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This document summarizes recent developments in the biopolymers industry. Major points include:
- Procter & Gamble plans to use sugar cane-based plastics for packaging of brands like Pantene and Covergirl starting in 2011.
- OPXBIO has accelerated development of a commercial process for producing bioacrylic from renewable resources, reducing production costs by 85% toward a target of $0.50 per pound.
- PolyOne's colorants and additives have received OK Compost certification, making them the first in the industry to receive this certification for a full range of products.
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agend:
Challenges
kerosene, a volatile commodity
future fuel expenses
the target – set by IATA
Solution
bio fuels from algae
algal cultivation strategies
hydrocorbons vs. bio-fuel
algae bio fuels offer huge potential for the Gulf Region
a novel refinery process
Proposal
algae plus ppi
a promising combination: partnering to complete the value chain
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This document provides a summary of the latest news and announcements from the global bio-based chemicals and materials sector for April 2012. Key highlights include: the bioplastics market is expected to triple by 2015; major bioplastics companies are investing in developing Asian markets; and a number of partnerships have been announced to develop new bio-based polymers, chemicals, and materials. Commodity prices for crops and crude oil increased significantly compared to the previous year.
Stora Enso's newsletter for stakeholders.
Topics covered:
Towards a low-carbon future
Product-specific carbon footprints on the way
Storing carbon in buildings
Enhanced recycling in Barcelona
Increased focus on bioenergy
Innovative climate-friendly products
Encouraging climate awareness
The document is a flyer promoting the Bioenergy Markets Global Series, an annual calendar of bioenergy industry events. It highlights that the series provides an excellent platform for business networking and covers every aspect of the bioenergy value chain. Over 7,000 industry leaders from 138 countries have attended the events to date. The flyer lists the various international events in the series focusing on biofuels, biogas, biopower and bio-based chemicals.
This document discusses biogas production and upgrading. It provides an overview of traditional biogas production methods and their limitations. It then discusses the growth of the biogas market and technologies for upgrading biogas, including various techniques like chemical adsorption, pressure swing adsorption, and membrane separation. It analyzes patent trends in biogas upgrading technologies and concludes that the biogas upgrading market has significant opportunities, though costs vary significantly depending on production methods and distribution systems used.
The document provides a feasibility and financial study for a proposed biodiesel production laboratory project at the German-Mongolian Institute for Resources and Technology (GMIT). It discusses the worldwide and local biodiesel industries, analyzes the costs associated with establishing a small-scale biodiesel production facility, and models the financial viability of the proposed GMIT Biodiesel Project. The study concludes that under favorable pricing conditions, the project can sustain itself financially and provide educational benefits to students while also producing value for the local community through recycling of waste vegetable oil into biodiesel and other products.
This document discusses sustainable packaging and emerging technologies. It notes that flexible packaging has replaced rigid systems and reduced costs. Companies are joining the green movement to promote themselves and increase margins. Emerging technologies like oxo-biodegradable and hydro-biodegradable additives help reduce environmental impacts and can lower costs. While these solutions have higher costs now, technology improvements will make biodegradability a major part of packaging in the future. Businesses that commit to sustainable practices will see reduced costs and increased revenue and customer loyalty.
This presentation prepared by NNFCC Senior Consultant Andrea Muñoz García for the IrBEA Webinar Series provides an introduction to
AD Deployment in Ireland. An overview of the biogas and biomethane sectors in Ireland, including current and planned deployment, key regulatory aspects and funding opportunities available.
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Encouraging climate awareness
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The legitimacy of a biobased economy has been widely questioned by both NGOs and the academic community , , , , , although criticisms have been largely targeted at biofuel production, these concerns do apply to biobased products. Questions over biodiversity impacts, social concerns around food security and even questions on the potential for greenhouse gas emission reductions, serve to reduce the acceptance of biobased products as a positive change for good.
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This presentation was given at the CHEMUK 2022 - The UK Chemical & Process Industries Expo. The presentation discusses the need for societal, systems and technological change to enable a move from the current petrochemical industry to an industry based on the use of sustainable carbon resources. A presentation is accompanied by a discussion paper which can be accessed at https://www.nnfcc.co.uk/news-transition-biobased-economy-steps.
The role of biomass in the drive to Net-Zero?NNFCC
At the UK Biomass Biorefinery Network (BBNet) Annual Conference 13-15th October 2021, NNFCC's Director and Lead Consultant on Biobased Products, Dr Adrian Higson, gave a presentation:
'The role of biomass in the drive to Net Zero?'
The UK Government aims to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. The Climate Change Committee (CCC) conclude that sustainable biomass can play a significant role in achieving this, providing it is prioritised for the most valuable end-uses.
This document discusses feeding a bioeconomy through the use of sustainably harvested biomass. It notes that biomass can play a significant role in meeting climate targets if prioritized for the most valuable end-uses. However, excessive biomass consumption could damage sustainability efforts, so careful policy management is needed to guide biomass to its most needed uses. The document also explores options for using biomass to produce fuels, chemicals, and materials while following principles of cascading use and carbon capture and storage to contribute to climate change mitigation.
Each month we review the latest news and select key announcements and commentary from across the biofuels sector, including bioethanol, biodiesel and advanced biofuels.
When it comes to the bio-based product market, are we climbing the slope of enlightenment or stuck in the trough of disillusionment? It’s now nearly 20 years since polylactic acid entered the market as a promising new commodity plastic, so what’s changed and is the industry developing as quickly as expected?
Bio-based products compete in a world dominated by fossil derived chemicals and materials. These fossil derived incumbents have the market advantage of proven technology and mature value chains, only through long-term innovation can bio-based products hope to build a significant market share.
However, too often innovation is considered solely in the context of technical development. A far more complicated series of actions is required to transform an inventions or scientific discovery into a product or process which provides value, in other words, something innovative.
A key requirement for successful innovation is the legitimacy of the activity. Without legitimacy, policy and funding support is likely to remain poor and market demand will fail to materialise.
In this presentation we’ll look at the current bio-based product market and ask if its proponents are doing enough to convince stakeholders of its legitimacy.
Anaerobic Digestion deployment in the United KingdomNNFCC
NNFCC publishes a definitive annual report on Anaerobic Digestion Deployment in the UK. The report provides a comprehensive regional breakdown of sector development in Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and the 10 regions of England, giving detailed information on feedstock requirements, installed capacity and output type.
A recent history of industrial biotechnology, bioenergy and bioeconomy in the ukNNFCC
Over the last 10 years the UK has been developing its Industrial Biotechnology Strategy and investing in the infrastructure, such as open access pilot plants, to support innovation. In recent years UK strategy has started to move towards the development of it bioeconomy.
The document describes two European projects called SuperBIO and BioBase4SME that provide funding to support small and medium enterprises' (SMEs) access to business services. SuperBIO aims to build cross-sectoral and cross-border value chains supporting SMEs. BioBase4SME aims to enable knowledge sharing between professional support services and entrepreneurs. Both projects offer services like market research, business planning assistance, and pilot-scale production access to help SMEs in the bioeconomy sector. Eligible SMEs can receive up to €60,000 or partial funding to cover the costs of utilizing these business support services.
HCL Notes and Domino License Cost Reduction in the World of DLAUpanagenda
Webinar Recording: https://www.panagenda.com/webinars/hcl-notes-and-domino-license-cost-reduction-in-the-world-of-dlau/
The introduction of DLAU and the CCB & CCX licensing model caused quite a stir in the HCL community. As a Notes and Domino customer, you may have faced challenges with unexpected user counts and license costs. You probably have questions on how this new licensing approach works and how to benefit from it. Most importantly, you likely have budget constraints and want to save money where possible. Don’t worry, we can help with all of this!
We’ll show you how to fix common misconfigurations that cause higher-than-expected user counts, and how to identify accounts which you can deactivate to save money. There are also frequent patterns that can cause unnecessary cost, like using a person document instead of a mail-in for shared mailboxes. We’ll provide examples and solutions for those as well. And naturally we’ll explain the new licensing model.
Join HCL Ambassador Marc Thomas in this webinar with a special guest appearance from Franz Walder. It will give you the tools and know-how to stay on top of what is going on with Domino licensing. You will be able lower your cost through an optimized configuration and keep it low going forward.
These topics will be covered
- Reducing license cost by finding and fixing misconfigurations and superfluous accounts
- How do CCB and CCX licenses really work?
- Understanding the DLAU tool and how to best utilize it
- Tips for common problem areas, like team mailboxes, functional/test users, etc
- Practical examples and best practices to implement right away
Building Production Ready Search Pipelines with Spark and MilvusZilliz
Spark is the widely used ETL tool for processing, indexing and ingesting data to serving stack for search. Milvus is the production-ready open-source vector database. In this talk we will show how to use Spark to process unstructured data to extract vector representations, and push the vectors to Milvus vector database for search serving.
TrustArc Webinar - 2024 Global Privacy SurveyTrustArc
How does your privacy program stack up against your peers? What challenges are privacy teams tackling and prioritizing in 2024?
In the fifth annual Global Privacy Benchmarks Survey, we asked over 1,800 global privacy professionals and business executives to share their perspectives on the current state of privacy inside and outside of their organizations. This year’s report focused on emerging areas of importance for privacy and compliance professionals, including considerations and implications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies, building brand trust, and different approaches for achieving higher privacy competence scores.
See how organizational priorities and strategic approaches to data security and privacy are evolving around the globe.
This webinar will review:
- The top 10 privacy insights from the fifth annual Global Privacy Benchmarks Survey
- The top challenges for privacy leaders, practitioners, and organizations in 2024
- Key themes to consider in developing and maintaining your privacy program
AI 101: An Introduction to the Basics and Impact of Artificial IntelligenceIndexBug
Imagine a world where machines not only perform tasks but also learn, adapt, and make decisions. This is the promise of Artificial Intelligence (AI), a technology that's not just enhancing our lives but revolutionizing entire industries.
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Topics covered:
CI/CD with in UiPath
End-to-end overview of CI/CD pipeline with Azure devops
Speaker:
Lyndsey Byblow, Test Suite Sales Engineer @ UiPath, Inc.
Let's Integrate MuleSoft RPA, COMPOSER, APM with AWS IDP along with Slackshyamraj55
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In the rapidly evolving landscape of technologies, XML continues to play a vital role in structuring, storing, and transporting data across diverse systems. The recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) present new methodologies for enhancing XML development workflows, introducing efficiency, automation, and intelligent capabilities. This presentation will outline the scope and perspective of utilizing AI in XML development. The potential benefits and the possible pitfalls will be highlighted, providing a balanced view of the subject.
We will explore the capabilities of AI in understanding XML markup languages and autonomously creating structured XML content. Additionally, we will examine the capacity of AI to enrich plain text with appropriate XML markup. Practical examples and methodological guidelines will be provided to elucidate how AI can be effectively prompted to interpret and generate accurate XML markup.
Further emphasis will be placed on the role of AI in developing XSLT, or schemas such as XSD and Schematron. We will address the techniques and strategies adopted to create prompts for generating code, explaining code, or refactoring the code, and the results achieved.
The discussion will extend to how AI can be used to transform XML content. In particular, the focus will be on the use of AI XPath extension functions in XSLT, Schematron, Schematron Quick Fixes, or for XML content refactoring.
The presentation aims to deliver a comprehensive overview of AI usage in XML development, providing attendees with the necessary knowledge to make informed decisions. Whether you’re at the early stages of adopting AI or considering integrating it in advanced XML development, this presentation will cover all levels of expertise.
By highlighting the potential advantages and challenges of integrating AI with XML development tools and languages, the presentation seeks to inspire thoughtful conversation around the future of XML development. We’ll not only delve into the technical aspects of AI-powered XML development but also discuss practical implications and possible future directions.
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• Communication Mining Overview
• Why is it important?
• How can it help today’s business and the benefits
• Phases in Communication Mining
• Demo on Platform overview
• Q/A
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* What is Vector Search?
* Importance and benefits of vector search
* Practical use cases across various industries
* Step-by-step implementation guide
* Live demos with code snippets
* Enhancing LLM capabilities with vector search
* Best practices and optimization strategies
Perfect for developers, AI enthusiasts, and tech leaders. Learn how to leverage MongoDB Atlas to deliver highly relevant, context-aware search results, transforming your data retrieval process. Stay ahead in tech innovation and maximize the potential of your applications.
#MongoDB #VectorSearch #AI #SemanticSearch #TechInnovation #DataScience #LLM #MachineLearning #SearchTechnology
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Neha Bajwa, Vice President of Product Marketing, Neo4j
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My slides at Nordic Testing Days 6.6.2024
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Maruthi Prithivirajan, Head of ASEAN & IN Solution Architecture, Neo4j
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In this work, we equipped AFL, a popular fuzzer, with DIAR and examined two critical Linux libraries -- Libxml's xmllint, a tool for parsing xml documents, and Binutil's readelf, an essential debugging and security analysis command-line tool used to display detailed information about ELF (Executable and Linkable Format). Our preliminary results show that AFL+DIAR does not only discover new paths more quickly but also achieves higher coverage overall. This work thus showcases how starting with lean and optimized seeds can lead to faster, more comprehensive fuzzing campaigns -- and DIAR helps you find such seeds.
- These are slides of the talk given at IEEE International Conference on Software Testing Verification and Validation Workshop, ICSTW 2022.
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Essentials of Automations: The Art of Triggers and Actions in FME
NNFCC market review bio based products issue seven october 2012
1. NNFCC Market Review
Bio-based Products Issue Seven, October 2012
E
ach month we review the latest or potentially renewable energy if used in
announcements and news from an anaerobic digester. Alternatively it may
be more appropriate with some waste
across the global bio-based
streams to recover energy using either an
chemicals and materials sector for our
incinerator or gasifier.
business members.
The petrochemical industry is also looking to
Foreword waste as a feedstock for a new generation
of bio-based chemicals. Just last month,
Welcome to the October 2012 issue of our Renmatix, a manufacturer of cellulosic
bio-based products market review. Waste sugars for bio-based chemical and fuel
is becoming a major issue but also a major markets, unveiled their state-of-the-art R&D
resource. This month has seen the debate facility which will look at new sustainable
on end-of-life options for plastics intensify, feedstock sources, including waste. They
with European Environment Commissioner are just one of a number of companies who
Janez Potočnik calling for a scale back of see waste as the future.
energy recovery from plastics while others
including Nestlé and environmentalist Read on for all the latest sector news.
Jonathon Porritt believe energy from waste
could offer significant opportunities for
Highlights
waste reduction.
Page 2 End-of-life News
Recycling is clearly an important tool for
plastic waste, where there is an end market Page 2 Platform Chemicals News
for the recyclates and it is economical to
Page 4 Bioplastics News
do so. However, for difficult to recycle
waste streams – like composites – it could Page 5 Bio-based Materials News
be time for a re-think.
Page 6 Scientific Reviews
Compostable plastics, for example, can
allow brands to build supply chains where Page 7 Price Information
packaging can be converted into compost
Page 8 Events
NNFCC Market Review, October 2012, Page 1 of 8
2. End-of-life in landfill with no statistically significant
quantity of methane released. This conclusion
was reached after a series of tests to ASTM
D5526 and D5511 standards that simulated a
century‟s worth of landfill conditions.
"We work with a cradle-to-cradle approach
to zero waste. What this means in terms of
landfill diversion, for example, is ideally that
Ingeo foodservice ware would be composted
in order to enable the landfill diversion of a
food-residual stream, and that Ingeo resins
and fibres would be mechanically or
Source: Nestlé
chemically recycled and not landfilled,” said
Marc Verbruggen, President of NatureWorks.
Nestlé Interview: The future of
sustainable packaging “However, these systems are still emerging
and developing. The reality today is that a
Around 90 per cent of Nestlé packaging can percentage of Ingeo products end up in
be recycled, but it is often not viable to do so landfills. And now we can say with certainty
and these materials end up in landfill. In a that the environmental impact of that
recent interview with NNFCC, David Wiggins, landfilling, in terms of greenhouse gas release,
Head of Packaging at Nestlé UK, called for is not significant," he added.
more to be done to explore the options for
generating energy from packaging waste. Click here for more information.
Wiggins says: “The infrastructure for recycling
single-material packaging is well-established
but composite packaging – like laminates
Platform Chemicals
used for confectionery or pet food – is a
particularly difficult to recycle waste stream.”
Renmatix unveil state-of-the-art R&D
“Where it is not economical to recycle facility
packaging waste we should consider energy
recovery, like combined heat and power Renmatix, a manufacturer of cellulosic sugars
plants. When supported with a scientific life for biobased chemical and fuel markets,
cycle assessment, strategically placed CHP have opened a new research and
plants can offer an opportunity to recover the development centre in Pennsylvania. The
calories stored in packaging materials,” he multi-million dollar R&D facility serves to
added. accelerate Renmatix‟s exploration of new
sustainable feedstock sources, assist
Click here to read the full interview. downstream customers in their transition to
cellulosic sugars, and further enhance the
Study finds Ingeo biopolymer stable in economics of the Plantrose™ process to
produce the lowest cost sugar intermediates
landfills
for renewable materials.
A peer-reviewed article appearing in the
Click here for more information.
journal of Polymer Degradation and Stability
concludes that Ingeo™ biopolymer is stable
NNFCC Market Review, October 2012, Page 2 of 8
3. making there in May, according to a
statement released after the close of regular
trading yesterday.
Gevo is working on “certain specific parts of
our technology” to boost isobutanol
production rates, according to the statement.
The Englewood, Colorado-based company
estimated that the facility won‟t reach “our
Source: Solazyme desired year-end run rate” until next year.
Click here for more information.
Solazyme announce commissioning
of algae oil biorefinery in Illinois
Butamax signs up eight ethanol plants
Solazyme have announced the successful for butanol retrofit
commissioning of its first fully integrated
biorefinery in Peoria, Illinois, with a capacity to Eight ethanol plants with a combined annual
produce two million litres of algal oil annually. capacity of 900 million gallons have signed
up with advanced biofuels company
The biorefinery was partially funded with a Butamax to be retrofitted for butanol
grant from the US Department of Energy in production. Butamax is a joint venture
December 2009 to demonstrate the between oil giants BP and chemical giants
integrated commercial-scale production of DuPont. Butamax say they can undertake the
renewable algal-based fuels. The company retrofitting at a cost of about $1 per gallon of
began running fermentation operations at a plant's initial output capacity.
the Peoria facility in the fourth quarter of 2011
and has gradually scaled-up production Click here for more information.
efforts, which have included multiple 128,000-
litre scale fermentations. Kiverdi receives US gov’t funding for its
carbon conversion platform
Click here for more information.
Kiverdi, a sustainable chemicals company,
Gevo to switch back to ethanol has been awarded a $0.75m grant from the
production from biobutanol California Energy Commission's Research,
Demonstration and Development program to
Shares in US biofuel producer Gevo, which is further develop beneficial uses of CO2.
backed by French oil company Total and
specialty-chemicals maker Lanxess, fell to a Kiverdi's proprietary Carbon Engineering
record low after announcing plans to stop Platform transforms carbon from industrial flue
producing isobutanol at its facility in Luverne, gases into high-value oils and chemicals,
Minnesota. including palm oil and palm kernel oil
replacements, say the company. Kiverdi also
Gevo declined 35 per cent to $2.14 at the announced that the company was selected
close in New York, the lowest price and the by a competitive peer-review process to
biggest loss since its February 2011 initial become an industrial user at the Molecular
public offering. The company is shifting to Foundry, where Kiverdi has access to world-
ethanol production at the plant while it class, state-of-the-art facilities and services.
adjusts its manufacturing process for
isobutanol, a more complex fuel it began Click here for more information.
NNFCC Market Review, October 2012, Page 3 of 8
4. BioBased Technologies expand Agrol Dr Carol Lin, who led the research team,
family of polyols described the food biorefinery process, which
involves blending the baked goods with a
mixture of fungi that excrete enzymes to
BioBased Technologies® has expanded its
break down carbohydrates in the food into
family of Agrol® polyols to include a variety of
simple sugars. The blend then goes into a
new feedstocks and a polyol specifically for
fermenter, a vat where bacteria convert the
flexible slabstock formulations.
sugars into succinic acid.
The company will introduce the new
Click here for more information.
products, Agrol Prime™, Agrol Star™, Agrol
Platinum® and Agrol™ AO+, during the
Centre for the Polyurethanes Industry‟s
Polyurethanes International Technical
Conference in Atlanta Sept. 24-26. The new Bioplastics
products are made from a range of raw
materials including soyabeans, castor oil and
cashew nut shells.
Click here for more information.
Source: Coca-Cola
Coca-Cola accelerates global
production of PlantBottle™ packaging
Coca-Cola has announced a partnership
with JBF Industries to further expand
Source: Dr Carol Lin production of the plant-based material used
in the company's PlantBottle™ packaging.
From Starbucks croissants to succinic
Coca-Cola have sold more than 10 billion
acid: Baked goods could become
PlantBottle™ packages to date but this new
bioplastics supply partnership will help Coca-Cola deliver
its target of using PlantBottle™ packaging
Scientists have developed and tested a new technology in all of its plastic bottles by 2020,
“biorefinery” intended to change food waste said the company. To support this partnership,
into a key ingredient for making plastics, JBF Industries will build the world's largest
laundry detergents and scores of other facility to produce bio-glycol; the key
everyday products. Their report on a project ingredient used to make the PlantBottle™.
launched in cooperation with the Starbucks
restaurant chain ― concerned with The facility, to be located in Sao Paulo, Brazil,
sustainability and seeking a use for spent will produce glycol using local sustainably-
coffee grounds and stale bakery goods ― sourced sugarcane and sugarcane
was presented at the National Meeting & processing waste. Construction of the facility
Exposition of the American Chemical Society. is expected to begin at the end of 2012 and
NNFCC Market Review, October 2012, Page 4 of 8
5. last for 24 months. At full capacity, the facility their work at the Society for General
will produce an estimated 500,000 metric tons Microbiology‟s Autumn Conference.
of material each year.
Polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) polyesters are
Click here for more information. synthesised by a wide variety of bacteria as a
source of energy when their carbon supply is
Bioplastics manufacturer Cereplast plentiful. Poly 3-hydroxybutyrate (PHB) is the
opens new office in India most common polymer in the PHA family.
Currently, growing bacteria in large
Cereplast Inc. has opened a corporate office
fermenters to produce high quantities of this
in India to better serve current and future
PHB is expensive because glucose is used as a
clients in the Southeast Asia markets. That
starting material. Now, work done at the
market, according to Cereplast, includes
University of Wolverhampton suggests that
India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka,
bacterium, Ralstonia eutropha H16, could use
and offers 1.6 billion potential new consumers.
waste cooking oil as a starting material to
reduce production costs of the plastic. The
Frederic Scheer, CEO of Cereplast, said that
next challenge for the group is to scale-up
India is a key emerging market for the
experiments; enabling the manufacture of
company and opening an office in India will
bioplastics on an industrial level.
allow Cereplast to establish a client base that
could require between 20 to 2,000 tons per
Click here for more information.
month of biobased product.
Click here for more information.
Biome Technologies announce Bio-based Materials
proposed sale of its 50 per cent stake
in Biotec
UK bioplastics company Biome Technologies
has proposed the sale of its 50 per cent stake
in Biotec, the Group‟s manufacturing joint
venture with Sphere. Biome will receive a
cash consideration of £5.2m. Biome say the
sale will allow the group to focus on its
strategy to develop high margin, application
Source: Bridgestone
led products.
Click here for more information. Bridgestone unveils 100 per cent
sustainable tyre concept
Waste cooking oil could make
Bridgestone is exhibiting a concept tyre of
bioplastics cheaper
“100 per cent sustainable materials” at the
2012 Paris Motor Show, as part of a new
Bioplastics that are naturally synthesised by
initiative to encourage sustainability.
microbes could be made commercially
viable by using waste cooking oil as a starting
Bridgestone Corporation, the world‟s largest
material, according to scientists presenting
tyre manufacturer, is diversifying the regions
where it produces natural rubber and also
NNFCC Market Review, October 2012, Page 5 of 8
6. replacing the synthetic rubber, carbon black and hardwood lignin yielded monomeric
and rubber compounding agents in its tyre compounds in different compositions with a
with alternatives synthesised from biomass. maximum yield of 2.0 per cent for syringic
acid and 3.6 per cent for syringol,
Bridgestone wants sustainable material tyres respectively. The results of the study showed
to be commercially available from 2050. As a that under applied conditions competition
next step in the process, the company will occurred between lignin depolymerisation
“initiate” the technologies to begin mass and recondensation of fragments.
production of bio-based tyres.
Click here for more information.
Click here for more information.
Bio-based production of chemicals,
materials and fuels –
Corynebacterium glutamicum as
Scientific Reviews versatile cell factory
Sustained photosynthetic conversion Abstract: Corynebacterium glutamicum,
of CO2 to ethylene in recombinant gram-positive soil bacteria, traditionally well-
cyanobacterium Synechocystis 6803 known as excellent producers of l-amino
acids are becoming flexible, efficient
Abstract: Ethylene is the most widely production platforms for various chemicals,
produced petrochemical feedstock globally. materials and fuels. This development is
It is currently produced exclusively from fossil intensively driven by systems metabolic
fuels, and its production is the largest CO2- engineering concepts integrating systems
emitting process in the chemical industry. In biology and synthetic biology into strain
this study, we report on a photobiological engineering. This study reviews the potential
process for sustained production of ethylene of Corynebacterium glutamicum in the
from CO2. The efe gene encoding an production of bio-based chemicals, materials
ethylene-forming enzyme from Pseudomonas and fuels.
syringae pv. Phaseolicola was previously
expressed in cyanobacterial strains, but was Click here for more information.
not stable. We modified the gene sequence
to enhance its stability, and expressed it in Toward biotechnological production
Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803, leading to of adipic acid and precursors from
continuous ethylene production.
biorenewables
Click here for more information.
Abstract: Adipic acid is the most important
commercial aliphatic dicarboxylic acid in the
Lignin depolymerisation in chemical industry and is primarily used for the
supercritical carbon production of nylon-6,6 polyamide. The
dioxide/acetone/water fluid for the current adipic acid market volume is about
production of aromatic chemicals 2.6m tons/yr and the average annual
demand growth rate forecast to stay at 3–3.5
per cent worldwide. Hitherto, the industrial
Abstract: Valorisation of lignin plays a key role
production of adipic acid is carried out by
in further development of lignocellulosic
petroleum-based chemo-catalytic processes
biorefinery processes the production of
from non-renewable fossil fuels. However, in
biofuels and bio-based materials. In this study,
the past years, efforts have been made to
supercritical depolymerisation of wheat straw
NNFCC Market Review, October 2012, Page 6 of 8
7. find alternative routes for adipic acid purification methodologies, and chemical
production from renewable sources by modification, as well as the analytical
biotechnological processes. This study reviews methods necessary for xylan related research.
the approaches and the progress made
toward bio-based production of adipic acid. Click here for more information.
Click here for more information. Economic and Environmental
Assessment of Bio-Based Chemicals
From plant biomass to bio-based Production in Singapore's
chemicals: Latest developments in Petrochemical Cluster
xylan research
Abstract: Current refining capacity in
Abstract: This review is focused on xylan, the Singapore is 1.3m bpd and ethylene capacity
second most abundant plant polysaccharide is 2.1m tons per year, projected to reach 4m
on our planet. Some xylan-derived products tons per year by 2014. The petrochemical
have already found commercial applications industry in Singapore is heavily dependent on
(ethanol, xylitol, xylo-oligosaccharides) while fossil-based feedstock. This paper investigates
others could have a great future in a wide the feasibility of incorporating bio-based raw
range of industries. The chemical and materials into the slate of feedstocks
structural variations of xylans produced by available for chemicals production in
different plants, and the concentration of Singapore.
xylan in various plant resources are
summarised. This review discusses the latest Click here for more information.
research developments in extraction and
Price Information
Item Price, US$ (Aug 07) Price, US$ (Aug 12) % Price Increase
Crude oil (petroleum, barrel) 70.13 ↑ 105.28 50.12
Maize (corn, metric ton) 151.01 ↑ 332.17 119.97
Sugar (pound) 0.0961 ↑ 0.2053 113.63
Rapeseed oil (metric ton) 1006.75 ↑ 1221.67 21.35
Soybean oil (metric ton) 797.09 ↑ 1188.51 49.11
Ethanol (gallon) 2.43 ↑ 2.72 11.19
For details on indexes please see www.indexmundi.com/commodities
Crude Oil (petroleum), simple average of three spot prices; Dated Brent, West Texas Intermediate,
and the Dubai Fateh. Ethanol details available at www.neo.ne.gov/statshtml/66.html
Arrows indicate rise (↑), constant (–) or fall (↓) from previous month.
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8. Comparison of Price Indexes (2005 = 100)
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Price index (relative terms)
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150 Materials
100 Food
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For details on the nature of these commodities please see www.indexmundi.com/commodities
Events
Life Cycle Assessment Workshops, 07-
7th European Bioplastics Conference, 08 Nov 2012 in York, UK
06-07 Nov 2012 in Berlin, Germany www.nnfcc.co.uk/events
en.european-bioplastics.org
Two workshops have been developed to
The annual European Bioplastics Conference provide a basic understanding of LCA and
offers a unique information platform for how to set about doing one. The first
industry trends and innovations in material workshop covers the principles of LCA,
and application development. requirements, problems and issues. The
second provides a „hands on‟ opportunity to
learn to carry out an LCA. The workshops can
be taken together or separately.
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