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Avantium raises 30M to advance YXY technology for green chemicals and fuels; new bio-based polymer PEF

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Avantium completed a €25-million financing round with new investors Sofinnova Partners, Aster Capital and De Hoge Dennen as well as existing investors Aescap Venture, Capricorn Cleantech Fund, ING Corporate Investments and Navitas Capital. The process is based on Avantium’s catalytic technology.

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Titan Advanced Energy Solutions raises $33M Series B; ultrasound-based battery management

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Titan Advanced Energy Solutions, a pioneer in ultrasound-based battery management solutions, announced a $33-million Series B financing led by HG Ventures, the corporate investment arm of The Heritage Group. Several chemical processes influence the physical properties of a battery, and therefore its capacity, over time.

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DOE awarding $1.6B to 11 battery materials separation and processing projects as part of $2.8B funding

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Construction is expected to begin in 2023, subject to permitting and project financing, with first production targeted for 2025. As part of the fluorinated solutions business group of Orbia, a publicly traded global corporation with total revenues of $8.7

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Global Bioenergies and Cristal Union form JV to produce renewable isobutene

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Isobutene is a key chemical building block that can be converted into transportation fuels, polymers and various commodity chemicals. IBN-One is a societe anonyme (limited liability corporation) with share capital of €1,000,000, jointly owned by Cristal Union and Global Bioenergies; the plant could be operational by 2018.

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LanzaTech in Coal to Ethanol Project in China; New Bio Energy Research Center

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.: MEK, Butadiene) from industrial waste gases, has signed a memorandum of understanding with one of the largest coal producers in China, Henan Coal and Chemical Industrial Corporation, to build a demonstration plant to produce ethanol and chemicals via LanzaTech’s fermentation process using syngas resulting from the gasification of coal.

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DOE to award $118M to 17 projects to accelerate domestic biofuel production

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Financing for novel biorefinery process systems can be a barrier to commercializing advanced biofuels, and this funding will reduce technological uncertainties and enable industry deployment.

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Dow and HPL Sign Li-ion Technology Transfer Agreement; Dow Kokam JV Acquires Assets of Kokam America

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HPL is financed by the founders, Draper Fisher Jurvetson ePlanet Ventures, Initiative Capital Romandie (managed by DEFI-Gestion), Bankinvest New Energy Solutions and private investors. a leader in the lithium rechargeable battery market and source of Dow Kokam’s superior lithium polymer battery technology. in South Korea.

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