DuPont and Archer Daniels Midland Win Breakthrough Solution of the Year Award
NEW YORK – DuPont Industrial Biosciences (DuPont) and Archer Daniels Midland Co. (ADM) have been honored with the Breakthrough Solution of the Year Award from Platts Global Energy for their platform technology to produce a revolutionary biobased monomer, furan dicarboxylic methyl ester (FDME). The award was announced at the 18th Platts Global Energy Awards, held in New York on Dec. 8.
The breakthrough process developed by DuPont and ADM, announced earlier this year, has the potential to expand the materials landscape in the 21st century with exciting and truly novel, high-performance renewable materials. The technology has applications in packaging, textiles, engineering plastics and many other industries. DuPont and ADM were selected as Breakthrough Solution of the Year winners out of a field of eight other finalists.