Articles Tagged with ''bio-based materials''

BASF produces high-performance UV acrylic hotmelt acResin^® with a zero and low product carbon footprint by applying its biomass balance approach and using renewable feedstock.

Maker of bio-based epichlorohydrin transferred administrative operations to its parent company to increase efficiency and improve customer relations. 

Using the mass balance approach, H.B. Fuller and Covestro teamed up to produce a new adhesive product that allows customers in the woodworking, composites, textile, and automotive sectors to reduce the carbon footprint of their own products, cutting fossil resource use.

The extension will expand production capacity at BASF’s only North American site that produces alkyl polyglucosides. 

In the report, Ingevity announced it has advanced its long-term vision for operating sustainably as well as highlighting goals for the future. 

New Energy Blue will create bio-based ethylene from renewable agricultural resources, which Dow will purchase and use it in recyclable applications.

A UCLA-led research team has created a new, biodegradable hydrogel adhesive that is reported to be three-times stronger than comparable bioglues.

A team of researchers from the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in Germany and McGill University in Canada have discovered strong adhesive properties of white-berry mistletoe.

A team of scientists has invented a new catalyst technology that converts renewable materials like trees and corn to acrylic acid and acrylates.

Westlake Corp. recently announced that Westlake Epoxy’s Pernis, Netherlands, site has completed the first sale of certified mass balanced bisphenol A.