Foreword
The big news with regard to biobased products
this month concerns the European Parliament, specifically its Environment,
Public Health, and Food Safety (ENVI) committee. In late January, the committee
met to discuss amendments to the European Commission’s existing Directives on
Waste, Landfill, and Packaging. Many amendments were passed, a good deal of
which were beneficial to the biobased products sector, including amendments
regarding separate waste collection, and more significantly, a distinction for
packaging made from bio-based plastic. This is potentially a big victory for
the bioplastics industry, with it being......
Other News this Month Includes:
Policy
- Illinois state announces bioeconomy legislation
- European Parliament ENVI committee approves
amendments to waste legislation
Markets
- Transparency Market Research Analyse
Mannosylerythritol market prospects
- BioAmber to offer $17.5m of shares to the
public
- BioAmber successfully clears corporate debt
- Report on global bio-polyethylene market - Market
Reports World
- Market forecasts for biobased chemicals and
polymers in Asia
- Grand View Research - Significant growth
expected in Bio-PET market
Research & Development
- AVALON begins search for bio-based replacement
for formaldehyde
- ASLEE to establish algal pilot plants in Scotland
- Wild bacterial strain identified with high
succinate yield from biomass
- High value enzymes produced by fungi on food
waste
Polymers
- Croda to market Revolymer (Itaconix)’s ZINADOR
- Lenzing achieves BioPreferred status on all of
its fibres
- AkzoNobel partners with Revolymer (Itaconix) to
produce biopolymers
Chemicals
- License agreed for Biobased Glucaric Acid production
- Croda continues investment in Hull, UK
- Sustainable Palm Oil certification for more
Evonik products
- Avantium announces partnership for Biorefinery
Plant
Consumer Products
- US Air Force to trial bio-based grease
- Synbra to release Carbon Neutral foam
- Biobased paint for trains
- IKEA releases kitchen units made from recycled
PET
Patents
Events
- Technology Transfer in Bioeconomy - BioBase4SME
Workshop, 8th March, Düsseldorf, Germany
- ORG Conference 2017, 23rd March 2017, Rocester, United Kingdom
- Bio-Based Live, 31st May - 1st June 2017, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- 13th International Conference on Renewable Resources and
Biorefineries, 7-9th June 2017, Wrocław, Poland
- EFIB, 9th – 11th October 2017, Brussels, Belgium
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