Category: Production Capacity
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Toray Expands
Toray says the final phase of a $40 million expansion enhances its leadership role in foam innovation.
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ALPLA Builds New Plant in South Africa
Production site near Johannesburg bundles activities from five existing plants.
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Biodegradable Nonwovens for Wipes
New Carded Airlaid Carded line will make a 100% cellulose nonwoven.
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Versalis Circular Strategy
Versalis, Eni’s chemical company, has announced that all the plants at Crescentino (Vercelli, Piedmont) will be up and running by the first half of 2020.
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First Bio-Aromatics Plant in Sight
BioBTX is able to take significant steps in its ambition to realize a commercial plant to produce platform chemicals from waste plastics with a full circular and sustainable process.
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Avantium to Build FDCA Plant in the Netherlands
Avantium, announces today that Avantium Renewable Polymers has signed a letter of intent to locate its new flagship plant at Chemie Park Delfzijl, the Netherlands.
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Kaneka Builds 5.000 tons PHBH Plant
Kaneka has completed the capacity building of its Biodegradable Polymer PHBH at the Takasago Plant. The completion ceremony was held on December 17th.
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VTT Buys Hydroprocessing Bench Scale To Fasttrack Bioeconomy
hte – the high throughput experimentation company, has supplied a customised four-fold bench scale hydroprocessing unit to VTT, a Finnish research, development and innovation organisation.
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Azerbaijan to Start Producing Bioplastics
Azerbaijan will build its first bioplastic plant in the High Technology Park in Pirallahi, in the outskirts of Baku, Board Chairman of the Azerbaijan’s Innovation Agency Tural Karimli has said.
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Stora Enso Invests in Pilot Plant for Bioplastic Packaging Material
Stora Enso is investing EUR 9 million to build a pilot facility for enabling the production of bio-based plastics as barrier in transparent packaging.
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New Zealand Research Funding For Potential Bioplastic Plant
Research that could lead to a bioplastics plant being built in Marton, potentially creating hundreds of jobs, has received a $380,000 boost from the Government’s Provincial Growth Fund (PGF).
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Avantium Will Build FDCA Plant With Help of BBIJU
The Bio-based Industries Joint Undertaking (BBI JU), an EU body, reconfirmed to award the PEFerence consortium, coordinated by Avantium Renewable Polymers, with a €25 million “PEFerence” Horizon 2020 grant.
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Danimer Scientific Opens First Nodax PHA Commercial Plant
Grand opening of the Danimer Scientific’s Nodax™ PHA manufacturing plant in Winchester, KY. Many employees, partners, customers and investors came to this event to observe the beginning of a new era of bioplastics.
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Avantium Set to Become World Leader in Plant-Based MEG
Avantium advances its plant-based MEG technology with the opening of its demonstration plant.
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Novamont Increases Mater-bi Production to 150,000 Tonnes
The increased production capacity (+36%) to be provided by the plant in Patrica, Lazio.
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Michelin, IFP Energies Nouvelles and Axens Construct Bio-Butadiene Protoype Plant
Axens, IFP Energies Nouvellas and Michelin have announced the construction of the first industrial-scale prototype of a plant producing butadiene from bioethanol in France.
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Indian Joint Venture To Start Producing Bioplastics
GUWAHATI: As the government is set to ban the use and manufacturing of single-use plastic products by October 2, the Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati (IITG), in collaboration with the Numaligarh Refinery Limited (NRL) has initiated a joint venture to start biodegradable and environment-friendly plastic production for commercial use.
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Call for Partners: Use or Invest in (Biobased) Polymerization Shared Facility
Green Chemistry Campus, REWIN and Wageningen University are planning the development of the first multipurpose Polymerization Shared Facility Pilot Plant in Bergen op Zoom. In this facility new and redesigned bio-polymers can be produced at a sub-commercial scale. Currently the consortium is looking for companies in the field of new (biobased) polymers that are interested…
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Benin Will Start Producing Bioplastics
The Benin (West Africa)-based blown film manufacturer, Asahel Benin Sarl recently announced that it will produce sustainable, bio-based plastic films in the future.
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Will BP Force Its Way Into Bioplastics?
BP Just announced a New Joint Venture with Bunge. The 50-50% JV will be called BP Bunge Bioenergia.
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Stora Enso Invests in Bio-Based Carbon Materials for Energy Storage
Stora Enso is investing EUR 10 million to build a pilot facility for producing bio-based carbon materials based on lignin.
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Biofuel Company Secures $118 Mln To Produce Bioplastics
Genera announced today it has secured more than $118 million in new investment for its first manufacturing facility to produce its Earthable® line of sustainable agricultural fiber products.
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Bioplastics Company Builds Recycling Plant
The French bioplastics biotech Carbios has raised €14.5M through a placing of shares in order to fund the construction of a demonstration plant that will use enzymes to make 100% recycled plastics.
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LyondellBasell and Neste Announce Commercial-scale Production of Bio-Based Plastic
This collaboration marks the first time bio-based polypropylene and bio-based low-density polyethylene were produced simultaneously at commercial scale.
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Arkema Selects Singapore for its Bio-Sourced Polyamide Production Site
Arkema has chosen the location of Jurong Island in Singapore to build its new world-scale plant dedicated to the manufacture of the amino 11 monomer and its flagship Rilsan® polyamide 11 resins.
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Tailor-Made Enzymatic Solutions Reduce Time and Cost of Biorefinery Processes
Non-food, woody materials (namely lignocellulosic biomass) is the largest renewable reservoir of fermentable starches to substitute fossil fuels. It can be used to produce bio-based polymers and materials for any kind of product – from yoga mats to loud speakers – as well as for paints, biochemicals, cosmetics, bioplastics and biofuels.
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Sealed Air & Kuraray Upgrade Plant-based Food Packaging Production Facilities
Sealed Air Corporation has invested in capacity at its Simpsonville, S.C. facility to produce plant-based food packaging. This facility will be the first in North America to produce materials made from Plantic™ plant-based resin and post-consumer plastic.
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Alagappa University To Set Up Bioplastic Facility
The Department of Microbiology and Alagappa Institute of Skill Development, in collaboration with Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), South Africa, have initiated a collaborative setup for manufacturing Bioplastics, said N. Rajendran, Vice-Chancellor, Alagappa University.
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Avantium Will Build Demonstration Plant for Third Technology Program
Avantium has decided to locate the new demonstration plant for its Mekong technology in Chemie Park Delfzijl, the Netherlands.
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Agreement between Bio-on and Innova Imagen for the production of Bioplastic in Mexico
Bio-on and Innova Imagen (Himes Group) announce the signing of a new agreement to produce ultra-green PHA biopolymers in Mexico
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EcoCortec opens bioplastic and anti-corrosion film plant in Croatia
EcoCortec has opened its first bioplastics and anticorrosion film plant in Croatia. Plant management finalized the big expansion project last year with the construction of a new facility, tripling production capacity.
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Despite increased production, bio-based polymers still account for only 2% of plastics consumption
Germany-based nova-Institute (Hürth) has published Bio-based Building Blocks and Polymers – Global Capacities, Production and Trends 2018-2023, which shows capacities and, for the first time, production data for all bio-based polymers.
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Production of PHA Bioplastics in Spain
PRESS RELEASE – Strategic Agreement between Bio-On and Acor
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Futerro, Sulzer and TechnipFmc Team up to Simplify the Production of Bioplastics
Three major process technology and equipment specialists, Futerro, Sulzer and TechnipFMC, have formed the PLAnet™ partnership to promote the production of sustainable plastics made of Poly-Lactic Acid (PLA).
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New Company Lux-on Will Produce PHA from CO2
PRESS RELEASE – Bio-on and Hera create Lux-on to produce bioplastic from CO2.
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The New Total Corbion PLA Factory starts Production
PRESS RELEASE – Total Corbion PLA, a 50/50 joint venture between Total and Corbion, announces the start-up of its 75,000 tons per year PLA (Poly Lactic Acid) bioplastics plant in Rayong, Thailand.
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Secos is Cashing in on Bioplastics
Bioplastics company SECOS shared its quarterly financial results and bioplastics is growing strongly.
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Russia Enters Bioplastics Through Putin and Italian Connections
PRESS RELEASE – Bio-on grants bioplastic technology license to Russian group TAIF for production in Russia.
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Novamont Boost Production
Novamont increases the production capacity of its Mater-Biopolymer plant located south of Rome.
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Will the Chinese Disrupt the Bioplastics Industry?
Thyssenkrupp built the first commercial plant in China based on their patented PLA bioplastics process
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Danimer Scientific Will Open First Commercial PHA Plant
Danimer Scientific is opening a fermentation facility in Kentucky for the production of its PHA biopolymer that will be commercialised under the brand Nodax.
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Japanese Companies Expand Bioplastics Production
Japanese Companies are Increasing Bioplastics Production
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Belgium Will Build Plant to Convert Lignin and Wood into Bio-Aromatics
VITO and partners have presented a plan to build a pilot plant in Antwerp for the production of bio-aromatics from lignin/wood.
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FDCA and PEF Production Becomes Cheaper and Faster
German Chemists Discover a Low Cost Catalyst for FDCA. Germany Remains at the top of Bioplastics.
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India is Going for Sorghum Bioplastics
It looks like India is increasing their agricultural activities around Sorghum. Sorghum can be used for food, animal fodder, alcohol production, biofuels and bioplastics.
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Bio-On Confirms Italian Leadership in BioPlastics
Bio-On builds its first bioplastics plant to produce bioplastics for the cosmetics industry.
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First FDME Plant was Built in the US
The first pilot plant to produce bio-based furan dicarboxylic methyl ester (FDME) began operating last month in the US (Decatur, Illinois). This is a major breakthrough.
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Production capacities of Bio-based polymers by Michael Carus
10th International Conference on Bio-bases Marerials – Köln, Germany- May 10-11, 2017
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Rennovia enters pilot stage of its bio-based 1.6- hexanediol (HDO) platform, accelerating the race to bio-nylon
Rennovia, CA (USA) has successfully commissioned and is operating its pilot plant operations for its sugars to 1,6-hexanediol process. 1,6-HDO is a platform intermediate to several commodity chemicals with over $20 billion global market value, including hexamethylenediamine (HMD), adipic acid (AA), and caprolactam.
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Avantium completes IPO and heads for first commercial plant to produce FDCA
In the Netherlands, Avantium completed its highly-anticipated initial public offering, raising $109.5M (€103M) via the sale of 9,401,793 shares at $11.70 (€11) per share, giving the company a market capitalization of $294M (€277M). Trading will begin on March 15th 2017 on Euronext Amsterdam and Euronext Brussels under the symbol AVTX.
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Plans Advancing for Comet’s Sarnia Cellulosic Sugar Plant
Comet Biorefining has begun detailed design work for a manufacturing plant it plans to build in Sarnia (Canada) to turn corn stalks and leaves, as well as wheat straw, into sugar for industrial uses.
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Total Corbion PLA Formally Starts Up Operations
Total Corbion PLA announced on March 2, 2017 the official launch of its operations to produce and market Poly Lactic Acid (PLA) polymers. As announced by its parent companies Total ( France)and Corbion (The Netherlands) last November, the new company is a 50/50 joint venture based in the Netherlands.
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S2G Biochemicals Starts Commercialization of Bio-based Glycols
S2G Biochemicals (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) announced last month that it has successfully initiated commercial production of bio-based Monopropylene Glycols (MPGs) using glycerine at the Memphis, Tennessee USA site of S2G’s operating partner, Pennakem LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Specialty Chemicals Group Minafin (France).
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French Launch First Bio-Isobutene Plant With l’Oreal
The French public investment program PIA provides €9 million funding to Global Bioenergies and IBN-One for a bio-isobutene plant project involving Cristal Union as partner supplier and L’Oréal as partner customer.
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Corbion Starts New PLA Plant in 2018
In order to further accelerate market acceptance of PLA, Corbion has already sold pre‐marketing volumes of PLA.Following their positive launch in the European and Pacific markets, these PLA resins will now be extended to the North American markets.
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Growth Prospect for Bioplastics Production Capacity for Next Five Years
The global bioplastics production capacity is set to increase from around 1.7 million metric tons in 2014 to approximately 7.8 million metric tons in 2019.
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Another biobased dicarboxylic acid comes into commercial production, by Verdezyne
At EFIB in Brussels last month, Tom Beardslee proudly presented Verdezyne’s achievements in the production of biobased chemicals.
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Bio-On and Moore Capital Agree to Build a PHA Plant in Brazil
Bio-On sign a 2nd license agreement with Moore Capital to build a 10,000 ton PHA bioplastic production plant in Brazil after its first licence agreement with Cristal Union to build a 5,000 to PHA plant in France.
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TerraVerdae’s Waste to PHA Production Scale-Up Completed
TerraVerdae BioWorks Inc (Canada) develops biodegradable bioplastics, specifically polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA), biobased chemicals and bioactives from environmentally sustainable, single carbon methanol feedstocks.
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Turning Thistles Into Plastics – The Matrica Complex
Novamont and Versalis-ENI (Italy) opened their innovative green chemistry “Matrica” complex in Sardinia just a year ago. A new “third generation biorefinery” started production in Porto Torres – Sardinia (Italy) just a year ago.
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Corbion Signs LOI for PLA Polymerization Plant
Corbion (NL) announces that it has signed letters of intent for one-third of the volume of a 75,000 metric Tons per annum PLA polymerization plant. Corbion reaches the next milestone to enter the polylactic acid (PLA) market as set out in its “Disciplined Value Creation” strategy announced on October 30, 2014. Corbion is accelerating its…
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Corbion Purac Intends to Build a 75000 Tpa PLA Production Plant
Corbion Purac ( Netherlands) will accelerate its thrust into the biotechnology arena, making the next step in the bioplastics value chain by becoming a PLA producer.
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ENI Versalis and Novamont Inaugurate First Joint Venture Plant
ENI Versalis (I) & Novamont inaugurate first plant of their joint venture Matrìca to produce plant based chemicals.
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Verdezyne Produces DDDA From Yeast
Verdezyne (USA) succeeds in producing 1 metric ton of bio-based dodecanedioic acid (DDDA) using its proprietary yeast platform.
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China BioPlastic Capacity
Focus on China’s biodegradable plastic capacity: it reportedly grew at a Compound Average Growth Rate of 21% from 2009 to 2013 as per ResearchInChina.
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MetaBolix Mvera Transparent Biopolymer Film
Metabolix (USA) announces it will launch its transparent biopolymer blown film grade Mvera™ B5011 at Interpack’14 (May 8-14th at Messe-Duesseldorf Germany).
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New Bioplastic Production Paradigm
From fire to bacteria: chemistry is gradually shifting production paradigm and moving into a new era.
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Verdezyne to Produce Bioplastic in Malaysia
Carlsbad-based biochemical company Verdezyne, Inc. has entered in June last year into a collaboration with Malaysian Biotechnology Corporation (BiotechCorp) in its assessment of Malaysia as the destination for its first biochemical production facility of commercial size in the Asia Pacific Region.
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GlycosBio to produce Bioplastic in Malaysia
Biochemical producer, GlycosBio, is building its first commercial facility in southern Malaysia. The 10.000 ton plant is expected to start-up this year and will be used to produce anhydrous ethanol and targeted biochemicals based on demand.
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METEX to produce Bioplastic in Malaysia
METabolic EXplorer, (METEX) a white biotechnology company that specializes in the development of bioprocesses for the production of chemical compounds used in a wide range of everyday products (textile fibers, paints, solvents, animal feed supplements, adhesives, etc.) has recently provided an update on its project to build a bio-propanediol (1.3 PDO) production plant in Malaysia.
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AVA Biochem Starts Facility for Renewables
AVA Biochem starts-up Biochem-1 facility in Muttenz (Switzerland) to produce renewable 5-Hydroxymethylfurfural (5-HMF)
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BioAmber New Plant will Supply Vinmar
BioAmber (Canada) plans to build a 100,000 Ton capacity BDO plant in North America to start-up in 2017. Vinmar (USA) has committed to purchase 100% of this capacity and participate into the plant financing.
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