Green Chemistry

Bio-based Chemicals, Renewable Feedstocks, Green Polymers, Less-toxic Alternative Chemical Formulations, and the Foundations of a Sustainable Chemical Industry

Green chemistry encompasses a broad area of endeavor. It is not covered by a narrow definition and does not offer a “silver bullet” type solution because it is essentially a reaction to a complex variety of issues. Ranging from dangerous and wasteful production processes and a heavy reliance on increasingly expensive petroleum to the persistence in the environment of toxic substances with far-reaching (and increasingly well-understood) effects on human and animal health, these problems call for equally diverse solutions. Green chemistry is the expansive discipline that is evolving in response to this wide array of challenges and represents a market opportunity that Pike Research forecasts will grow to approximately $100 billion in 2020.
The Green Chemicals markets are currently nascent, with many technologies still at laboratory or pilot scale, while many production-scale Green Chemical plants are not expected to be running at full capacity for several more years. However, most Green Chemicals companies are targeted at large, existing chemical markets, so adoption of these products is limited less by market development issues than by the ability to feed extant markets at required levels of cost and performance.
This Pike Research report examines the three major segments of the Green Chemical market: waste minimization in conventional synthetic chemical processes, green replacements for conventional chemical products, and the use of renewable feedstocks to produce chemicals and materials with smaller environmental footprints than those produced by current processes. Representative companies from each segment are profiled and global forecasts, segmented by world region, extend through 2020.

Key Questions Addressed:

-What is Green Chemistry?
-What are the key segments of the Green Chemicals market?
-What are the market sizes and growth rates of these segments?
-What are the sizes and growth rates of these market segments by geographic region?
-How much of the global chemical industry do Green Chemicals account for? How much will they account for?
-Who are some of the companies to watch in the Green Chemicals industry?

Who needs this report?

-Chemical companies
-Companies using petroleum-derived chemical and polymer feedstocks
-Green plastics or chemical consumer products companies
-Investor community
-Government agencies
-Nonprofit organizations

Global Chemical Industry

Table of Contents

1.     Executive Summary
1.1   Introduction
1.1.1    The Value of Green Chemistry
1.1.2    Evolution of the Green Chemical Market
1.1.3    Competitive Landscape
1.1.4    Market Forecast

2.     Market Issues
2.1   Overview
2.2   The Origins of Green Chemistry
2.3   Market Taxonomy
2.3.1    Waste Minimization in Conventional Synthetic Chemical Processes
2.3.2    Green Replacements for Conventional Chemical Products
2.3.3    Renewable Feedstocks
2.4   Green Chemistry Impact on the Chemical Industry
2.5   Market Drivers
2.5.1    Technological Drivers
2.5.2    Regulatory Drivers
2.5.2.1     United States
2.5.2.2     European Union
2.5.2.3     China
2.5.2.4     Greenhouse Gas Emissions Regulation
2.5.3    Customer Preferences
2.5.4    Process Economics

3.     Technology Issues
3.1   Overview: What Makes a Chemical Green?
3.2   Green Chemical Production Technologies
3.2.1    Improvement of Conventional Processes
3.2.2    Biologically Based Chemical Production Technologies –  Industrial Biotechnology
3.2.3    Biologically Based Chemical Production Technologies –  Biological Feedstocks

4.     Key Industry Players
4.1   Emerging Green Chemistry Companies (Companies to Watch)
4.1.1    Agrivida, Inc.
4.1.2    Amyris, Inc.
4.1.3    Anellotech, Inc.
4.1.4    Arzeda Corp.
4.1.5    BioAmber Inc.
4.1.6    Codexis, Inc.
4.1.7    Elevance Renewable Sciences Inc.
4.1.8    Genomatica, Inc.
4.1.9    Gevo, Inc.
4.1.10  Godavari Biorefineries, Ltd.
4.1.11  Itaconix LLC
4.1.12  Metabolix, Inc.
4.1.13  Myriant Technologies, Inc.
4.1.14  Novomer, Inc.
4.1.15  OPX Biotechnologies, Inc.
4.1.16  Segetis, Inc.
4.1.17  Solazyme, Inc.
4.2   Established Companies
4.2.1    Archer Daniels Midland Company
4.2.2    BASF
4.2.3    Braskem SA
4.2.4    Cargill, Inc. (and Natureworks, LLC)
4.2.5    The Clorox Company
4.2.6    The Dow Chemical Company
4.2.7    E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
4.2.8    GlaxoSmithKline plc
4.2.9    Koninklijke DSM N.V.
4.2.10  Merck & Co., Inc.
4.2.11  Pfizer Inc.
4.2.12  Warner Babcock Institute for Green Chemistry, LLC
4.3   Non-Commercial Players
4.3.1    American Chemical Society Green Chemistry Institute
4.3.2    The Berkeley Center for Green Chemistry
4.3.3    The Center for Green Chemistry and Green Engineering at Yale
4.4   Governments

5. Market Forecasts
5.1   Introduction
5.2   Global Chemical Market
5.3   The Green Chemical Market – Products and Intermediates
5.4   Green Chemical Market – Cost Savings and Liability Avoidance
5.5   Green Chemicals – Replacements for Toxic Formulations (Consumer Products)

6.     Company Directory 

7.     Acronym and Abbreviation List 

8.     Table of Contents

9.     Table of Charts and Figures

10.   Scope of Study, Sources and Methodology, Notes 


List of Charts and Figures

Green Chemical Market by Region, World Markets: 2011-2020
Chemical Market by Region, World Markets: 2011-2015
Green Chemical Market by Region, World Markets: 2011-2020
Green Chemical Market CAGRs by Region, World Markets: 2011-2015, 2016-2020, 2011-2020
Green Chemical Market Penetration Rates by Market Segment, World Markets: 2011-2020
Green Chemistry Savings and Liability Avoidance by Region, World Markets: 2011-2020
Green Consumer Chemical Market, United States: 2011-2020

List of Tables

Green Chemical Market by Region, World Markets: 2011-2020
Chemistry Market by Region, World Markets: 2005-2009
Sustainable Value Creation (and Destruction), World Markets: 2005-2007
Top Value-Added Chemicals from Biomass Feedstocks: 2004
Chemical Market by Region, World Markets: 2011-2015
Green Chemical Market by Region, World Markets: 2011-2020
Green Chemical Market CAGRs by Region, World Markets: 2011-2015, 2016-2020, 2011-2020
Green Chemical Market Penetration Rates by Market Segment, World Markets: 2011-2020
Green Chemistry Savings and Liability Avoidance by Region, World Markets: 2011-2020
Green Consumer Chemical Market, United States: 2011-2020