All Entries Tagged With: "Alcoa"
DOE grant encourages collaboration between Alcoa, Codexis, CO2 Solution
In New York, with a DOE grant of $13.5 million from the ARRA870A Recovery Act, Alcoa reports that in a collaboration with Codexis and CO2 Solution. They will be working on a 3 year carbon capture technology project designed to sequester industrial carbon emissions, neutralizing the material to create a commercially viable product. The project [...]
Cereplast says bioplastics near-term prospects bright, as demand booms, economy recovers
In California, Cereplast commented that increased growth rates for plastic giants such as DuPont and Alcoa combined with higher costs for crude oil bode well for the bioplastics industry as science-based initiatives and green technologies begin to lead the way and the economic recovery takes hold. Both DuPont and Alcoa reported better-than-expected EPS for the [...]
DOE awards $228 million for green chemicals, CO2-to-products
In Washington, the US Department of Energy announced the award of $228 million, including $122 million to establish an Energy Innovation Hub aimed at developing revolutionary methods to generate fuels directly from sunlight, and $106 million for six projects that convert industrial CO2 emissions into fuel, plastics, cement, and fertilizers. The Fuels from Sunlight Energy [...]
