The Swedish Minister for Enterprise and Innovation, Mikael Damberg, joined Stora Enso CEO, Karl-Henrik Sundström, at the company’s official inauguration of its new Innovation Centre.

Elevance Renewable Sciences Inc., Woodridge, IL, has hired Robert “Bob” Kumpf as the company’s Chief Technology Officer.

BASF, Ludwigshafen, Germany, and technology provider Renmatix Inc., Philadelphia, will jointly scale up the Renmatix Plantrose process for the production of industrial sugars based on lignocellulosic biomass.

Publishing company Global Industry Analysts Inc. has released a study on the renewable chemicals market that reports the market for renewable chemicals is projected to reach $66.1 billion by 2018.