The Swedish company Processum has announced an 8 million Swedish Krona nanocellulose project which will develop new applications such as the test bed TinyBTalented on a large scale over the nest four years.

Vireo Advisors' Jo Anne Shatkin, James Ede, and Kimberly Ong published a chapter, “Minimizing Risk: An Overview of Risk Assessment and Risk Management of Nanomaterials” to the newly released “Metrology and Standardization for Nanotechnology: Protocols and Industrial Innovations”.  

The chapter, (Environmental Health and Safety of Cellulose Nanomaterials and Composites, Ch. 21 in, Dufresne, A, H. Kargarzadeh, I. Ahmad, S. Thomas (Eds.) Handbook of Cellulose Nanocomposites, 2 Volume Set 1st Edition. 2017, ISBN: 978-3527338665.Wiley,-VCH, Weinheim, DE.) was co-authored by Jo Anne Shatkin and Baram Kim.

American Process Inc. (API) (Atlanta, GA) and Aditya Birla Group’s, Birla Carbon (Marietta, GA) recently signed a Joint Development Agreement to further efforts of combining carbon black and nanocellulose to improve the performance and sustainability of tires.

The National Strategy for Modernizing the Regulatory System for Biotechnology Products (Strategy), was published in September of 2016 along with the 2017 Update to the Coordinated Framework (see our previous post).