If I had money I wouldn’t invest it in Facebook. I will instead choose to invest my savings in industrial biotech. There is probably also something of a bubble going on with industrial biotech, but it is not blown out of proportion by a worldwide brand like Google, Facebook or Twitter. Yet industrial biotech is in a growth phase, which is what investors are looking after.
The 11th of April Solvay announced its intention to buy Rhodia for €3 billions. This is the last announcement in a long list of acquisitions in the chemical industry in a year that is breaking records. The number of acquisitions is motivated by a market recovering from the economic crisis and that has cash again after 3 years of strong readjustment measures
A new market research, published by Frost & Sullivan, entitled “Strategic Assessment of the Bioplastics Market in Brazil and Mexico” analyzes production plans, main resins sold and applications currently in use in both countries. The study also aims at providing a look into the future for bioplastics in the region, with regards to future demand and prospective feedstocks
ANAIP, the Spanish trade association for plastic professionals and COFACO, a consortium of companies transforming rubber, just signed the Foundational Act of the FEITCAP or Federación Española de Industriales de la Transformación de Caucho y Plásticos. ANAIP y COFACO are two of the oldest trade associations in Spain, with 53 and 61 years of existence
The FAO has declared 2009 International Year of Natural Fibres. Within natural fibres we can find materials as important for humanity as wool, cotton or flax, key in our development through history. They are used in a variety of markets, to produce textiles, paper and composite materials. The benefits of their production, sales and export significantly help farmers in deprived areas to secure an income, a rare advantage over other crops and lines of work. For this reason, mundomaterial wants to promote through 2009 the use of natural fibres in their many applications