WOODRIDGE, IL – In collaboration with several partners, including the special contribution of Versalis under a strategic partnership started in early 2014, Elevance Renewable Sciences Inc. has successfully completed scale-up of a second-generation biorefinery technology of the company’s olefin metathesis technology, utilizing ethylene and natural oil feedstocks.
The ethenolysis process advancement represents an important milestone for the development of a second-generation metathesis technology — the first of its kind — enabling an enhanced product portfolio from natural oils metathesis.