Sentence examples for feedstock from inspiring English sources

BASF, a chemicals giant, uses Russian gas as both an energy source and a feedstock; in turn it sold €1.4 billion of its €74 billion total sales in 2013 to customers based in Russia.

It is most likely that some of the work that will be required on both feedstock and livestock is going to involve looking at GE possibilities.

They propose to reach back into history and revive the use of a feedstock that was used to make some of the first plastics invented: milk.What they actually suggest is using casein, the principal protein found in milk.

The result is a feedstock with up to 60% more heat output per kilogram, far lower mercury, sulphur and ash content, and the potential for far cleaner burning.Other refining efforts are also being commercialised.

Ways of converting those crops into feedstock have to be developed.

That feedstock has then to be turned into something that people want to buy, at a price they can afford.All parts of this chain are currently the subjects of avid research and development.

That is because domestic processors use ethane, a natural-gas liquid derived from shale gas, as a feedstock for various chemical products.

Isoprene needs to be extremely pure to make synthetic rubber.Having the flexibility to use different crops and agricultural by-products as the feedstock for the process is important, says Karl Sanford of Genencor.

And if production costs end up being as low as the company hopes, isoprene might itself become a feedstock from which to produce synthetic fuels, such as petrol or diesel.

Unlike Gulf companies, he has to pay market prices for feedstock.

In 2011 it became the world's largest importer of agricultural products, powered by its demand for soybeans, a feedstock for pigs.But China's openness to soy contrasts with the barricades it erects around what it deems to be key foods.