By Thomas Kläusli, Chief Marketing Officer, AVA Biochem

The evolution of biorefineries has driven the development of bio-based chemicals as an alternative to petrochemicals.  Due to increasing public concerns around health, the environment and limited foss

Arizona Chemical Company, a world leader in bio-refined specialty chemical products and member of the ACS GCI Chemical Manufacturer's Roundtable, received the Bulldog Reporter Silver level award for its 2012 Sustainability Report in the category of Best A

On Wednesday, June 18, the ACS GCI hosted the final round of the 2014 Green Chemistry and Engineering Business Plan Competition. Four semi-finalists arrived at the 18th Annual Green Chemistry and Engineering Conference in Bethesda, MD to present their bus

Do you want to make a difference in the world? Do you want to make an impact on issues like climate change, reliance on fossil fuels, continuing contamination of air, land and water, unsafe chemicals in consumer products, and conflict minerals use?

All of

In fall 2012, Professor Neil Garg from University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) received a $50K grant from the ACS GCI Pharmaceutical Roundtable (ACS GCIPR) Medicinal Chemistry team for his project, “Development of Green Nickel-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling

Contributed by Jim Hutchison, Co-chair, Green Chemistry & Engineering Conference and Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oregon

This year’s Green Chemistry and Engineering (GC&E) Conference offers an exciting series of multi-day technical tracks al

At this year’s Spring ACS National Meeting in Dallas, TX, Callie Bryan, PhD, a medicinal chemist at Genentech Inc. and ACS GCI Pharmaceutical Roundtable participant, organized a “Greening the Medicinal Chemistry Toolbox: Lunch and Learn” through the ACS D

Concern for our planet and its well being is forcing us to think about greener, more sustainable processes to make the things we need and want, such as new technologies, fuels and drugs.

During the 1990s many industries began to earnestly adopt green chemi

The New Year is a time for reflection on the last twelve months and anticipation of the next twelve. As we exit 2013, the green chemistry community has a lot to be proud of considering huge gains made in fields like catalysis, process energy efficiency, a

Contributed by Garine Isassi

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) honored industrial pioneers and leading scientists in Green Chemistry this month by announcing the winners of the 2013 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge.

An awards ceremony was

Contributed by Stephen Schafer, Pharmaceutical Technology Specialist, Kremers Urban Pharmaceuticals

To help continue to foster a Green and Sustainable culture (i.e., recycling initiatives, waste reduction, and maximizing efficiency of processes) at Kremers

Meike Niggemann, a Junior-Professor at RWTH Aachen University in Germany, has been selected as the 2013 ACS GCI Pharmaceutical Roundtable Distinguished Lecturer. The ACS GCI Pharmaceutical Roundtable recognizes a professor whose research is very highly re

For those of you unfamiliar with the process of dragging a company kicking and screaming through a university system, it requires people that believe in what you are doing (both from the university Office of Technology Transfer (OTT) and from your own tea

ACS GCI kicked off October in New Brunswick, NJ with the ACS GCI Pharmaceutical Roundtable. As you may know, the Institute convenes the Pharmaceutical, Formulators', and Chemical Manufacturer's Roundtables to promote the implementation of green chemistry

A grant from The Bayer USA Foundation supported high school students for a summer of paid laboratory research in Pittsburgh and Houston through the American Chemical Society’s (ACS) Project SEED. This effective program, that has served almost 10,000 econo