I know you know, but here’s a little reminder…
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- Monday, 16 March 2020
So often I forget. But now with the increased risk, I’ve tapped back into the innate knowing I have about how to take care of myself and boost my immune system. Friends have been asking so I’d like to share what I’m doing. If it feels good to you, great. If not, find something else that does. And while you’re looking, keep in mind the things you loved as a kid — playing outside, Smarties, hanging with a pet, that type of thing.
Bangkok, Thailand, 2 March 2020 – Bio-based chemical company Advanced Biochemical (Thailand) Co., Ltd. has announced a capacity increase at its plant in Map Ta Phut, Thailand, which will now produce 120,000 mt/year of bio-based epichlorohydrin (ECH) – an increase of 20,000 mt/year. Permission for this increase was granted by the Industrial Estate Authority of Thailand.
Pearl River, NY, USA, 27 February 2020 –Sustainable technology company Anellotech has announced that a laboratory demonstration of its Plas-TCat™ technology – which transforms mixed plastic waste directly into chemicals – successfully converted a Lay’s Barbeque Potato Chip (PepsiCo) bag into paraxylene, the primary chemical used to make virgin PET for beverage bottles. The conversion also had high yields of benzene, toluene and olefins used to make a range of plastics, including polyethylene, polypropylene, nylon, ABS and polycarbonate.
Boulder, CO, USA, February 6, 2020 – DMC Biotechnologies has successfully produced its lead product, L-alanine at pilot scale. Commercial key performance metrics were achieved and performance from the bench scale was also demonstrated at 3m3 scale fermentation and for each of the downstream purification unit operations. The robustness of DMC’s Dynamic Metabolic Control technology to the process environment was also validated.
January 31, 2020 - AVA Biochem AG in Zug, Switzerland has developed, patented and piloted a fully water-based process for the conversion of industrial sugars into the 100% bio-based molecule 5-HMF.
