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Metabolix announced on Jan. 12, 2012 that ADM has given notice of termination of the Telles, LLC joint venture for PHA bioplastics. Metabolix however, will remain committed to successfully commercializing PHA bioplastics, as Richard Eno, CEO of Metabolix points out. [more]
Jürgen Pfitzer and Helmut Nägele received the “Dieselmedaille” 2011 in the category "Most Sustainable Innovation" of the Deutsches Institut für Erfindungswesen (DIE) (“German Institute for Inventions”) [more]
The report 'The state-of-the-art on Bioplastics 2010' describes the revolutionary growth of bio-based monomers, polymers, and plastics and changes in performance and variety for the entire global plastics market in the first decades of this century ... [more]
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