Here are the largest bioplastics producers
- Arkema (France) produces PA11 and PA10.
- Novamont (Italy) is one of the leaders and is known for its Mater-Bi starch based resins and the Matrica project
- Matrica is a joint venture between Novamont and Versalis (part of ENI).
- 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.
- 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.
- Novozymes (Denmark) is the global leader for enzyme production.
- Lanzatech (USA) produces bio-based butadiene (bio-BDE).
- Verdezyne (USA) produces bio-based Dodecanedioc acid (DDDA) in Malaysia.
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