Top Bioplastics Producers

Here are the largest bioplastics producers

Novamont (Italy) is one of the leaders and is known for its Mater-Bi starch based resins and the Matrica project

Arkema (France) produces PA11 and PA10.

Matrica is a joint venture between Novamont (IT) and Versalis (IT)

Yield10 Bioscience (bought Metabolix) produces PHA.

Reverdia is a joint venture between DSM (Holland) & Roquette (France). They produce succinic acid

Solvay (Belgium) is famous for its brand Epicerol, a biobased glycerol epichlorhydrine for bio-epoxy.

Bioamber (Canada) produces succinic acid.

NatureWorks is a joint venture between Cargill (USA) & PHH (Oil company in Thailand). They produce PLA.

Total Corbion PLA is a joint venture between Total (FR) and Corbion (NL). Corbion was previously called Purac. They produce PLA and the headquarters are in NL. Total Corbion joint venture

Succinity GmbH is joint venture between BASF (Germany) & Corbion (NL) . They produce Succinic Acid. The factory is based in Spain.

Synvina is a joint venture between BASF (Germany) & Avantium (NL). They produce PEF and the factory is based in Antwerp, Belgium.

Dupont (USA) & Tate and Lyle (UK) produces 1.4 PDO, PTT and PA10.

Genomatica (USA) produces 1.3 BDO, 1.4 BDO and bio-based Caprolactam.

Genomatica supplies 1.4 BDO to Toray (Japan) to make PBT.

Novozymes (Denmark) is the global leader for enzyme production.

Joint venture between Versalis (Italy – part of Italian oil company ENI), Novamont and Genomatica supplies 1.3 BDO. They produce Bio-based Butadiene (bio-BDE). Versalis to Partner with Genomatica and Novamont for Bio-based Butadiene

Lanzatech (USA) produces bio-based butadiene (bio-BDE).

Verdezyne (USA) produces bio-based Dodecanedioc acid (DDDA) in Malaysia.

PTT MCC Biochem is a joint venture in Thailand between PTT Public Company Limited and Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation.

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