By Ben Hirschler, SOURCE: Reuters Dutch scientists have found a way of turning plant matter into the building blocks of common plastics using a nanotechnology process that offers an alternative to oil-based production. The team from Utrecht University and Dow Chemical Co produced ethylene and propylene – precursors of materials found in everything from CDs [...]

SOURCE: Braskem.com.br Agreement with the Brazilian petrochemical company envisages the supply of raw material for 2,000 seats made of 100% renewable plastic for the Dutch stadium Braskem, the leading thermoplastic resin producer in the Americas and the world’s largest producer of biopolymers, established a partnership with Amsterdam ArenA to supply Green Plastic to be used [...]

MINNEAPOLIS, MN — 10/17/2011 — /PRNEWSWIRE/ – BioAmber, Inc. has been awarded a 2011 ICIS Innovation Award, winning the Best Business Innovation category for the development and commercialization of its biobased succinic acid platform.  BioAmber joins an elite group of past winners that includes Huntsman in 2010 and DSM in 2009. BioAmber becomes only the [...]

By Don Loepp – SOURCE: PlasticsNews.com Brazilian plastics giant Braskem SA is now the largest polypropylene resin supplier in the United States. Today the company closed on its $323 million purchase of Dow Chemical Co.’s PP business. The deal which was first announced July 27, includes two U.S. plants and two in Germany, with total annual [...]

Dow Chemical Co and Mitsui & Co Ltd have formed a joint venture to turn sugar cane into ethanol and plastic, an area widely considered the future of the chemical industry. Reporting by Ernest Scheyder, editing by Gerald E. McCormick and Matthew Lewis SOURCE: Reuters 07/19/2011 The move directly challenges Braskem SA, Brazil’s largest chemical [...]