Tag: Clariant
Swiss chem company seeks partner to compete with Novozymes on second-gen
Tweet In Switzerland, Clariant is getting ready to go head-to-head with Novozymes and other second-generation biofuels technology providers with their own waste-to-fuel technology. The company is currently looking for partners to help fund the demonstration plant. The move comes on the heels of several years of restructuring following the $2.5 billion purchase of catalyst maker [...]
The Force: the Cellulosic biofuels tax credit is back, but is it really needed?
Tweet Finding it hard to explain to taxpayers why the PTC is needed, for the jump to cellulosic biofuels lightspeed, or to ward off predatory fossil-fuel evildoers? Turns out, The Force may not be needed after all.  So, the fiscal cliff was averted in a last minute-deal by DC lawmakers. Sort of. For now. [...]
New 5-Minute Biofuels Digest Guides to Blue Sugars, Clariant, Direvo, Dyadic, Genera Energy, Lygos
Tweet Biofuels Digest has released the next wave of its 5-Minute Guides – a “news you can use” digest on the leading companies in biofuels. Each 5-Minute Guide provides a company description, 3 top milestones for 2010-12 and projected for 2012-14, description of the business model; plus project info (location, feedstocks, product set, processing technology, [...]
Clariant: Biofuels Digest’s 5-Minute Guide
Tweet Address: Biotech & Renewables Center, Staffelseestr. 6, 81477 München, Germany Year Founded: 1995 Annual Revenues: CHF 7.4 billion (2011) Company description: Clariant is an internationally active specialty chemical company, based in Muttenz near Basel. The group owns over 100 companies worldwide and employed 22 149 employees on December 31, 2011. In the financial year [...]
Clariant and Wilmar team up for amine production in Singapore
Tweet In Singapore, Clariant Ltd and Wilmar International have teamed up and signed an agreement for a 50-50 joint venture for production of amines and amines derivatives. The specialty chemical company and agribusiness groups, respectively, will headquarter their operations in Singapore as they prepare the venture to be operational by spring. Clariant will contribute its [...]
Elevance, Clariant hitch up for renewables development
Tweet In Illinois, Elevance Renewable Sciences and Clariant International announced that they have completed an agreement to cooperate within the field of renewable products. The companies are coupling Clariant’s market knowledge and formulation development capabilities with Elevance’s renewable products and patented process technology to commercialize new renewable additives for plastics. Elevance uses olefin metathesis to [...]
