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Bioeconomy and Renewables (4)

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Energy Policy in China and its Impact on some Chemicals Production

Energy is the latest and unexpected factor impacting petrochemical, chemical, and polymer industries in all regions of the world in Q4 2021....

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Funding Heats Up For Biotech Material Developers

Funding, investments and grants continue to soar for biotech materials developers, especially after several successful IPOs from companies such as...

Chart showing the acrylic acid market.

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Acrylic Acid & Acrylates - When Can Buyers Put the Anguish Behind Them?

To say this year has proved a huge challenge for the acrylic acid and acrylates market would be a vast understatement. Buyers have faced a huge...

Employees attending the Zymergen NASDAQ opening event to celebrate being publicly traded.

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Rising Commercialization of Specialty High-Temperature Bio-based Polymers

As of 22 April, California, USA-based biofacturing company Zymergen began trading on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the ticker symbol “ZY” and...

Example of a forest for harvesting woody biomass for feedstock to develop chemicals.

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Pine-Based Chemicals Market Update

Kraton Corporation announced on 17 February a general price increase of 10% across its entire pine chemicals and alpha methyl styrene (AMS) resins...

Graph showing the cellulosic fibers market.

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Cellulosic Fibers – The Sequel

Following Tecnon OrbiChem’s report last year on Cellulosic Fibers based on the Nova-Institute Cellulosic Fibers conference, how has the outlook for...

Chart indicating the amount of viscose carbon emissions.

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Could Wood Pulp Offer a Sustainable Solution for the Garment Industry?

This article originally appeared on Fisher International's FI Insights blog on 3 February 2021. Growing sustainability trends and concerns about...

Forest line against a blue sky.

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Pine-Based Chemicals and Fuel Demand in the Spotlight

Investments are ramping up for chemicals, materials, and fuel using woody biomass and pulp by-products for feedstock. Supply and demand for crude...