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MCI®-2005 contains 67% USDA certified biobased content and is a qualified product under the mandatory federal purchasing initiative of the USDA BioPreferred® Program.2 It was used by a water consortium in Spain to enhance the durability of a new 1.32 million gallon (5000 m³) water buffer tank and avoid corrosion issues experienced with previous ...
Department of Agriculture (USDA) Office of Procurement and Property Management published a final rule that will amend the Guidelines for Designating Biobased Products for Federal Procurement (Guidelines) to add 30 sections designating the product categories within which biobased products would be afforded procurement preference by federal agencies and their ...
Stäger commissioned a report from NNFCC to assess suitability of biobased and recycled polymers. There are many reasons why, over the last 60 years, plastic has increasingly replaced other materials such as glass and metal. ...
ASTM International's Committee on Plastics recently approved revisions to standard D6866, Test Methods for Determining the Biobased Content of Solid, Liquid, and Gaseous Samples Using Radiocarbon Analysis. ...
Department of Agriculture (USDA) Certified Biobased Product Label. This news was followed by a second announcement on August 27, 2015, when another biobased foam produced by Malama, Pacific BioFoam™, also received the Biobased Product Label from the USDA. Malama is a Biobased and Renewable Products Advocacy Group ...
The new report, An Economic Impact Analysis of the U.S. Biobased Products Industry, shows that in 2013, the U.S. biobased industry added $369 billion dollars and four million jobs to the economy. The biobased products industry is comprised of many significant contributors to the U.S. economy including biorefining, biobased ...
Department of Agriculture (USDA) issued final amendments to the regulations concerning the Voluntary Labeling Program for Biobased Products. The rule is intended to incorporate statutory amendments to Section 9002 of the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act signed into law on February 2, 2014. Among other changes, USDA has deleted the definitions of "BioPreferred product," ...
Chemicals must have at least a 50 percent biobased content to qualify as renewable chemicals under the bill, and must also be sold and used for purposes other than food, feed, or ...
In the industrial sector, Benjamin Borns, staff chemist for Sherwin-Williams Global Supply Chain R&D, points to the company’s water-based alkyd acrylic technology (another Green Chemistry Challenge Award winner), an example of the replacement of nonrenewable inputs with biobased alternatives. “Using this technology, we make commercial paint products from soybean ...
At Armstrong, a standard from ASTM International Committee D20 on Plastics provides a method to quantify biobased content in its ceiling and flooring products: D6866, Test Methods for Determining the Biobased Content of Solid, Liquid and Gaseous Samples Using Radiocarbon Analysis. ...