Dow Wire & Cable, a business unit of The Dow Chemical Company (“Dow”), today signaled a groundbreaking advance in sustainable chemistry by launching DOW ECOLIBRIUM™ Bio-Based Plasticizers, a new family of phthalate-free plasticizers for use in wire insulation and jacketing that are made from nearly 100% renewable feedstocks.
Royal DSM N.V., the global Life Sciences and Materials Sciences company headquartered in the Netherlands, today introduces two bio-based performance materials for the automotive industry, in response to customers’ increasing demand for sustainable products. This marks an important step in DSM’s aim of creating a portfolio of bio-based performance materials.
Top-ranking manufacturer of sustainable, bio-based plastics Cereplast, Inc. has changed back its trading symbol from CERPD to CERP, after it temporarily switched to CERPD on March 15, 2010.
Rick Bell, global development manger for Renewable Materials – DuPont Automotive Performance Polymers joins a panel to discuss “Environmentally Friendly Interiors” on April 14 at 2 p.m. EST during the Society of Automotive Engineers World Congress in Detroit.
NatureWorks Ingeo has been awarded the first four-star rating from the Vinçotte OK biobased certification board for its innovative product, the Natureworks Ingeo polymer.
Umbria Olii International introduces a worldwide first - compostable soap wrapping. This bio-film is based on FKuR’s Bio-Flex® and is used for the packaging of “Ecolive“ laundry soap.
Crash-test dummies could soon be facing vehicle collision tests in cars padded with cork rather than traditional materials such as polymer foams or porous aluminium metal, according to Portuguese engineers writing in the International Journal of Materials Engineering.
In a paper published in the American Chemical Society journal, Macromolecules, scientists from IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Stanford University detail discoveries that could lead to the development of new types of biodegradable, biocompatible plastics. The result of a multi-year research effort, the breakthrough also could lead to a new recycling process that has the potential to significantly increase the ability to recycle and reuse.
Scientists at the BBSRC Sustainable Bioenergy Centre are analyzing how miniature marine gribble isopods eat and digest wood that is supposedly indigestible. These wood-eating creatures destroy docks and wooden piers in coastal regions and the wooden components aboard ships, thus becoming a seafarer’s nightmare. The scientists analyzed gribble gut genes and understood that the digestive systems of these creatures contain enzymes that are capable of indicating a solution for converting straw and wood into liquid biofuels.
The Lorraine Regional Council has joined forces with Arkema and two university laboratories to back a research program into "biobased acrylics", the challenge of the project being to offer new "green" acrylic acid derivatives and develop a biosourced chemical activity in the Lorraine region.
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