The company is now exploring partnerships to develop more renewable feedstocks.
The company is also commercializing a way to make nylon entirely from renewable feedstocks like starch and cellulose.
Some researchers are exploring renewable feedstocks as a source for novel materials, which could provide another economic incentive to companies to pursue biobased chemical production.
A panel of four speakers, for example, agreed that renewable feedstocks were very unlikely to make much of an impression on the industry in the next decade or two.
They can be generated from renewable feedstocks.
Bio-BDO is made from renewable feedstocks — a range of sugars— according to the company's website.
This involves utilizing both nonrenewable and renewable feedstocks in an environmentally responsible manner.
All these initiatives should help to develop a new chemical industry based on renewable feedstocks.
Such processes could be economically viable if they are based on renewable feedstocks.
But a solution is in the works that will utilize renewable feedstocks from sugar cane, corn, corn cobs, switchgrass or other biomasses rather than petroleum.
These results demonstrate that microbial fermentation has a promising potential to manufacture glyoxylate from renewable feedstocks.
