19.11.2015
- 1,4-Butanediol (BDO) is an important chemical intermediate product and raw material for plastics, solvents and synthetic fibers. The alcohol’s production capacities have been...
25.09.2015
- German chemical giant BASF and US biotech firm Genomatica have expanded the scope of their license agreement for production of renewable 1,4-butanediol using Genomatica’s patented...
21.07.2015
- US Agricultural giant Cargill, headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, has made an equity investment in California-based biotech firm Genomatica. As part of the deal, Cargill has...
28.11.2013
- BASF has begun offering its first commercial volumes of 1,4-butanediol (BDO) produced from renewable raw material produced with dextrose-based fermentation technology licensed from...
28.06.2013
- Trial production of polybutylene terephthalate (PBT) at the Hamm-Uentrop, Germany, plant of specialty chemicals producer Lanxess, using bio-based 1.4 butanediol (BDO) made...
07.03.2012
- Alternatives To Oil - Light olefins, or short alkenes, are key platform molecules for the chemical industry. They are almost exclusively obtained from fossil oil. Because of the...
