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Business Roundup

C&EN Global Enterprise 2023

Summary

This paper is not about microplastics research — it is a short business news roundup mentioning, among other items, that BASF opened a biodegradation and microplastics laboratory.

MyForest has raised $15 million in series A funding to help boost sales of its fungal bacon, which is currently available only in New York City. The firm has also hired food industry executive Greg Shewchuk as CEO. Kraton has appointed Marcello Boldrini as CEO. Boldrini has been the company’s co-CEO with Holger Jung as well as CEO of Kraton Pine Chemicals since March 2022, when DL Chemical of South Korea closed its acquisition of Kraton. BASF has opened a biodegradation and microplastics laboratory in Wyandotte, Michigan. The firm says the site will help customers analyze the environmental fate of established and emerging materials. Röhm expects to close its methacrylates plant in Westwego, Louisiana, in June 2025, after the firm opens a new plant for the business in Bay City, Texas. The closure will affect 70 employees. Open Targets , a UK-based public-private partnership that uses human genetics and genomics

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