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Fibres and fabrics: Eco-friendly feedstocks
2014-10-31 10:59:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
As the global apparel sector searches for more eco-friendly fibres and fabrics, innovative developments are increasingly focusing on more sustainable and often unusual alternative feedstocks.
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Braskem Collaborates with Genomatica to Produce Bio-based Butadiene from Renewable Feedstocks
2013-12-23 06:00:00| Coatings World Breaking News
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Innovative Process from BASF Allows Flexible Use of Renewable Feedstocks in the Integrated Productio
2013-10-17 07:00:00| Coatings World Breaking News
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Renewable Feedstocks Promise Lower-Cost p-Xylene
2013-08-21 21:09:00| Chemical Processing
Researchers at the University of Massachusetts (UMass), Amherst, Mass., have discovered an "ultraselective" process to make p-xylene from dimethylfuran (DMF) and ethylene derived from renewable resources such as lignocellulose. The route boasts more than 99% xylene selectivity to the para isomer, and 90% yield of p-xylene at 99% conversion of...
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Light Converts Fats into Feedstocks
2013-08-14 17:25:00| Chemical Processing
Researchers at Biosolar LLC, Millbury, Ohio, have generated long-chain olefins from lard, tallow, olive oil, canola oil and waste canola cooking oil. Irradiation with ultraviolet light produced long-chain alkenes, dienes, trienes, as well as glycerol byproduct.
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