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$100 MILLION PLANT TO PRODUCE PROPANEDIOL FROM CORN SUGAR.

Publication: Industrial Environment
Publication Date: 01-JAN-07 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
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 feedstocks. The production of Bio-PDO(TM) consumes 40 percent less energy and reduces greenhouse gas emissions by 20 percent versus petroleum-based propanediol. Production of 100 million pounds of Bio-PDO(TM) will save the energy equivalent of 10 million gallons of gasoline per year, or enough to fuel 22,000 cars annually.

"Bio-PDO(TM) is a versatile ingredient...

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