Manufacture of chemicals and fuels from biomass produced from forests, plants, and other biological resources
8.29Fri 2025
A Sustainable Model Learned in Austrian Villages for Spreading Heat Energy in Mountain Villages [Heat Supply Business as a Basis for Local Economic Circulation 1: Overview].
Have you ever felt uncomfortable with the use of fossil fuels as a matter of course? Nowadays, electricity and heat energy are generated by coal and [...].
8.27Wed 2025
Carbon-Neutral Salt Production with Wood Biomass Power Generation Nihonkaisui to Start Operations at Sanuki Plant in FY2028
A plan to convert an existing coal-fired power plant to a wood biomass power plant at the Nihonkaisui Sanuki Plant (Sakaide City, Kagawa Prefecture) has been approved by the [...]
8.26Tue 2025
Exploring raw biomass (2) "Softwoods and hardwoods" as different as "sharks and dolphins
Biomass, which lexically refers to the amount of living organisms (bio) (mass), as opposed to fossil resources such as oil and coal [...].
8.22Fri 2025
Paper and paperboard also function as social devices that "store and circulate carbon" [Cultivating the Future through Carbon Cultivation].
The most familiar "mass products of forest origin" around us are probably paper and paperboard. Notepads, newspapers, wrapping paper, [...].
8.18Mon 2025
The key to producing homogeneous polymeric materials from lignin is an interdisciplinary approach between chemistry and biotechnology [Cultivating the future through carbon farming].
Lignin is a major component of woody and herbaceous biomass, along with cellulose, but its non-regular and heterogeneous chemical structure [...].
8.12Tue 2025
Why Japan Needs a "Circular Forest Economy" Now: Resource Self-Sufficiency, Lifelong Growth, and a Resident-Financed Platinum Society
As Chairman of the Platinum Initiative Network and former President of the University of Tokyo, I have long been thinking about the future of Japan. Now, the world [...].
8.4Mon 2025
Establishing Technologies to Utilize Lignin, Key to Realizing a Decarbonized Society: Active Research Utilizing Microbial Metabolism [Cultivating the Future through Carbon Cultivation].
Reducing dependence on oil and securing sustainable material feedstocks are essential to achieving a decarbonized society. To address this challenge [...].
7.25Fri 2025
Forest Circular Economy, edited by Hiroshi Komiyama, is a vision for the year 2050: Rebuilding Japan as a resource-rich nation will start with its forests.
The national challenges facing Japan today - carbon neutrality by 2050, regional sustainability, and resource self-sufficiency. These [...]...
7.25Fri 2025
Uncovering the structural diversity of lignin, a wood-derived raw material that is a key to replacing fossil resources [Cultivating the Future through Carbon Cultivation].
The structure of wood, with cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin as its main chemical components, is often compared to reinforced concrete. With polysaccharides [...].
7.19Sat 2025
Mitsubishi Chemical Group Invests in Australia's Licella Holdings to Expand Oil Conversion Business from Used Plastics and Biomass
The Mitsubishi Chemical Group is pleased to announce that its corporate venture capital subsidiary, Diamond Edge Ventures, I [...].
7.10Thu 2025
Sanyo Engineering, which contributes to the circular economy of the region by turning waste wood and unused forest materials into high-quality chips for power generation, has been recognized as an excellent company.
Sanyo Engineering, a machine designer and manufacturer of shredding and sorting equipment for wood and wood waste, is participating in the Hiroshima Industrial Promotion Organization's [...]
7.10Thu 2025
Realization of carbon neutrality and development of the chemical industry through regional and inter-industry cooperation
With the goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions to virtually zero by 2050, a multifaceted approach of technology, policy, and regional cooperation around the world [...].
7.9Wed 2025
Carbon Neutrality as a Basis for Biomass Utilization in the Forest Circular Economy Landscape Approach is Key
The argument for wood use in many places is based on the premise that forest biomass is carbon neutral [...].
7.9Wed 2025
Waste Cooking Oil from Homes and Stores Becomes Aviation Fuel Domestic SAF Begins to be Supplied to Regular Passenger Flights
JGC Holdings, Tokyo Metropolitan Government, All Nippon Airways, and Japan Airlines have recently announced a domestic SAF (Sustainable [...]] that uses waste cooking oil as part of its raw material.
7.8Tue 2025
Expanding Possibilities with "Form-Sustaining Cellulose Materials" that Utilize the Superior Natural Structure of Wood [Cultivating the Future through Carbon Cultivation].
The Paris Agreement was adopted at COP21 in Paris, France in December 2015. This agreement is an agreement that all participants [...].
7.8Tue 2025
Exploring raw biomass (1) Characterization is important to reveal the characteristics and properties of plants
The use of biomass as an alternative to fossil resources is being actively considered, and there have been several booms in the past for this type of initiative [...].
