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Ohio launches biosoy program

The State of Ohio is seeing green in soybeans, and not just from food and biofuel applications. The Ohio Soybean Council (OSC) , Ohio Bioproducts Innovation Center (OBIC) and Polymer Ohio , recently launched its "Cell to Sell" soy technology program to accelerate commercialization of soybean...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-19-2008
World Toilet Summit

I was eating breakfast while surfing the web, and thinking of serious election-aftermath stuff to post in the blog when this news about this week's ongoing World Toilet Summit in Macau caught my attention. At first I was amused by the notion of a global toilet expo and all the crappy notions that...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-05-2008
More hydrogen research

In connection with fuel cells, I just wanted to share these new R&D breakthroughs on hydrogen production. The green blog mentioned this week about producing hydrogen using sewage feedstock but according to researchers from the US Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory and Ontario...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-17-2008
Fuel cell rumor from BASF

I just went this morning to the Liberty Science Center in New Jersey to attend the North American debut of a global exhibition called Science of Survival , and what a treat it was! The exhibition, sponsored by BASF, Nissan and HSBC, uses an interactive "kid-friendly video game" like effects...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-17-2008
From garbage to gas to cash

"In California, they don't throw their garbage away - they make it into TV shows." - Woody Allen. And that's how garbage is being revolutionized by following Woody Allen's sage (or should we say green) advice. There are so many developments now of turning trash into cash, garbage...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-15-2008
GREEN = INNOVATION

ICIS Chemical Business (the magazine I work for) published yesterday its feature on Innovations and most innovations nowadays it seems is focused on the environment. Specialty chemicals company Rhodia is certainly on top of this trend as they talked about how sustainability issues are largely affecting...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-14-2008
The biopower of soy

Here are some of the new industrial developments in the soybean arena brought to you by the United Soybean Board: Soy is hip for skaters Comet Skateboards has partnered with e2e Materials to develop a new skateboard made from soy-based products. The new skateboards are made entirely from plant fibers...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-08-2008
New green chems and a notice

The green blogger is indisposed for the rest of the week doing her real job. She promised to make it up for it next week. For now, here is September's new green chemical picks to chew on: 1. Rohm and Haas plastic additive - Rohm and Haas showcased a new additive Paraloid™ BPMS 250 melt strength enhancer...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-01-2008
No plastic bag ban from Wal-Mart

Much to the relief of the chemical and plastic manufacturing community , the big box retailer giant Wal-Mart opts to reduce, reuse and recycle instead of implementing plastic shopping bag bans. Yesterday, Wal-Mart announced its goal to reduce its global plastic shopping bag waste by an average of 33...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-26-2008
No more explosive fertilizers!

Honeywell can be commended in the development of its new ammonium nitrate-based fertilizer, which the company said is not only as effective as the traditional product but it has lower explosive potential, which is very significant when it comes to cutting back potential terrorism activities. Hard as...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-23-2008

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