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Gevo joins up with Total Cray Valley to develop

renewable isoamylene

US-based renewable chemicals
expert. Gevo, has signed a joint
development agreement with Total
Cray Valley, part of the French oil &
gas giant’s polymers division, to up-
grade fusel oils from ethanol produc-
tion into renewable isoamylene.

Isoamylene is predominately used
in a diverse set of applications, in-
cluding resins, pesticides, flavours
and fragrances, pharmaceuticals,
healthcare products, adhesives, anti-
oxidants, and UV stabilisers.
“This collaboration is a spinoff
of Gevo’s chemical-based catalytic or isobutanol production, into renew- waste feedstock and this alliance
processes that selectively converts able isoprene, ketones, aldehydes, or will be another move towards the
low-value fusel oils, a mixture of alco- olefins. Fusel oils from the ethanol delivery of low carbon sustainable
hols that are by-products from fer- industry alone equate to about 2.5 chemicals,” stated Mr. Patrick Gru-
mentation processes such as ethanol million tons of potential bio-based ber, CEO, Gevo.

Henkel acquires patented skin model technology

Germany’s Henkel has closed the
acquisition of a patented skin model
technology from SkinInVitro. The
epiCS skin models will be manufactured
in the Henkel laboratories in Dussel-
dorf under the firm’s Phenion brand.

The skin model technology com-
prises reconstructed human epider-
mal equivalents, which are officially
approved by the OECD for assessing
skin irritation, enabling safety as-
sessments of end products and cos-
metics ingredients without recourse
to animal testing.

“With this acquisition we are
strengthening our existing product
portfolio in the field of reconstructed
human tissue models,” explained our clients tissue models which are Hence, this reasonable complement
Mr. Dirk Petersohn, responsible well-suited and regulatory accepted of our already existing product port-
for the Phenion brand. “With the for analysing the skin-corrosive and folio gives us the opportunity to serve
epiCS technology we can now offer irritating potential of substances. our customers even better.”
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