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BUSINESS Business Roundup ShareShare onFacebookTwitterWechatLinked InRedditEmail C&EN, 2022, 100 (18), p 15May 23, 2022Cite this:C&EN 100, 18, 15AbstractCargill and Helm have started building a $300 million 1,4-butanediol facility in Eddyville, Iowa. It will be completed in 2024. The companies announced last year that they would form a joint venture to make biobased alternatives to petrochemicals. Mission Zero Technologies has raised $5 million in seed funding for electrochemical direct-air-carbon-capture technology. The firm’s Project Hajar collaboration with the CO 2 sequestration firm 44.01 was among 15 projects to win $1 million last month from the carbon removal XPrize. Ginkgo Bioworks is working with the plant-based ingredient company Evo Foods to develop animal-free egg proteins. Evo has already introduced an egg substitute and is looking to improve taste, texture, and cooking properties. Toray Industries and the technology provider Axens are considering building a plant at Toray’s site in Saint-Maurice-de-Beynost, France. It would break down 80,000 metric tons per year of difficult-to-recycle polyethylene terephthalate waste into the monomer bis(2-hydroxyethyl) terephthalate. NeuvivoView: PDF | Full Text HTML
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