The company uses renewable feedstocks, such as corn cobs, wood, and sugarcane bagasse, to make 1,5-pentanediol, which enhances the performance of everyday products, such as paints, coatings, adhesives, and more.
All Perstorp’s pro-environment products are produced based on a traceable mass-balance system, using sustainable raw materials, and carrying the ISCC PLUS certification.
In order to leverage its solvents business segment, Braskem is collaborating with Netherlands-based NXTLEVVEL Biochem for studies on marketing solutions made from renewable raw materials.
Renewable materials company BioAmber Inc. has closed on a $19.2 million loan from Bridging Finance Inc., acting as sub-advisor to the Sprott Bridging Income Fund LP.
BASF, Ludwigshafen, Germany, and technology provider Renmatix Inc., Philadelphia, will jointly scale up the Renmatix Plantrose process for the production of industrial sugars based on lignocellulosic biomass.
We have learned that every element of the product life cycle has implications for the environmental, social and economic pillars of sustainability, and that all three elements need to be taken into account when new products are being developed.