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Michelin Produces France’s First Biomass-derived Butadiene

Michelin, IFP Energies nouvelles, and Axens have opened France’s first industrial-scale prototype facility to produce butadiene derived from biomass at Michelin’s plant in Bassens, near Bordeaux. The facility was built as part of the BioButterfly project, in which the three companies are participating with the support of the French ecological transition agency Adem with the aim of producing butadiene from...

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Riken Technos Develops Biomass Plastic Products With Lower Plastic Content

Riken Technos has developed a new series of biomass plastic products called “Natural Rikebio” and added it to its Rikebio product lineup. The new series aims to reduce waste by compounding natural resources that would otherwise be discarded with the company’s proprietary compounding and processing technology, and effectively utilizing them as molding and processing materials. The polypropylene (PP) base can...

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Mitsui Chemicals Receives New ISCC PLUS Certifications

sMitsui Chemicals has recently acquired for new ISCC PLUS certifications, an international certification system for sustainable products. This is part of the company’s move to continue acquiring such certifications with the aim to expand social implementation of biomass products based on the mass balance method. Products for which ISCC PLUS certification will be newly available: Product: Ammonia, Product name: Ammonia, Main applications:...

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Mitsui Chemicals Invests in Apeiron Bioenergy

Mitsui Chemicals has in June this year invested in Apeiron AgroCommodities, which is also known under the brand of Apeiron Bioenergy, one of the largest collectors and marketers of waste cooking oil in Southeast Asia and China. Waste cooking oil is a raw material for biomass chemicals and plastics. With this investment, Mitsui Chemicals will expand procurement of biomass feedstock...

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Kato Sansho, Ichinen Chemicals Develop New Additive to Increase Biomass Content of PE, PP

Raw materials trading firm Kato Sansho Co. Ltd. has worked with Ichinen Chemicals Co. Ltd. to develop One Bio, a series of biomass additives derived from plants. One Bio B-001 is an 80 percent plant-derived additive that can be simply mixed with polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP) – materials that make up around half of Japan’s plastics market – to...

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Trading Firm Kato Sansho Jointly Develops Biomass Additive Series

Kato Sansho Co. Ltd. has worked with Ichinen Chemicals Co. Ltd. to develop One Bio, a series of biomass additives derived from plants. One Bio B-001 is an 80 percent plant-derived additive that can be simply mixed with polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP) – materials which make up around half of Japan’s plastics market – to raise the biomass content...

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