$100 MILLION PLANT TO PRODUCE PROPANEDIOL FROM CORN SUGAR.

Industrial Environment,  January, 2007  

Tags: DuPont Co.

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DuPont Tate & Lyle Bio Products, LLC,, Loudon, Tenn., an equally owned joint venture of DuPont and Tate & Lyle, has announced the first commercial shipments of Bio-PDO(TM) from its $100 million facility here. The Loudon facility produces 1,3 propanediol (Bio-PDO(TM)) from renewable resources -- in this case corn sugar -- making it the first facility in the world to manufacture this new bio-based product.

The joint venture uses a proprietary fermentation process developed jointly by DuPont and Tate & Lyle to produce Bio-PDO(TM) using corn instead of petroleum-based ...

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