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Safer Alternatives

This is a directory of green chemistry and engineering technologies from around the world, developed by the Yale-UNIDO Global Green Chemistry Initiative. It provides a worldwide snapshot of technologies that are currently commercially available or are in the process of becoming commercially available. The selected technologies are applicable across a broad range of sectors and industries.

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Engelhard Rightfit™ Organic Pigments

Organic pigments. Traditional heavy-metal based pigments contain lead, hexavalent chromium, or cadmium.

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Inventor/Owner/Manufacturer/Supplier

Stage of Development:

System Development/Field Test/ Commercialization

Category:

Paints/Coating

Environmentally Friendly Adhesives for Wood Composites

Soy flour-based adhesives for wood composites.

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Inventor/Owner/Manufacturer/Supplier

Inventor:

Ashland Inc. (previously Hercules Inc.) Columbia Forest Products Professor Kaichang Li at Oregon State University

Stage of Development:

System Development/Field Test/ Commercialization

Category:

Fine Chemicals

Enzymicals AG Enzymes

Enzymes and chemicals as chiral building blocks, intermediates, specialty chemicals, and recombinant enzymes.

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Inventor/Owner/Manufacturer/Supplier

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System Development/Field Test/ Commercialization

Category:

Bulk Chemicals

ePD™

Decorative metallic coating for plastic parts. ePD™ is short for embedded PVD.

Owner/Manufacturer/Supplier:

Inventor/Owner/Manufacturer/Supplier

Stage of Development:

System Development/Field Test/ Commercialization

Category:

Paints/Coating

Eucodis Bioscience Enzymes

Custom enzymes for biopharma, fine chemicals, cosmetics, and other industries.

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Inventor/Owner/Manufacturer/Supplier

Stage of Development:

System Development/Field Test/ Commercialization

Category:

Pharmaceuticals