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BioAmber Has Plans For Butanediol Plant
by Michael McCoy
January 27, 2014
| A version of this story appeared in
Volume 92, Issue 4
The biobased chemical developer BioAmber has laid out plans to build a 100,000-metric-ton-per-year 1,4-butanediol plant in North America. BioAmber has signed a 15-year agreement under which the chemical distributor Vinmar International will invest in the plant and buy its output. BioAmber CEO Jean-François Huc says the agreement should attract other investors to the facility, which he hopes to open in 2017. The plant will convert sugar-derived succinic acid into butanediol using a process BioAmber licensed from DuPont; BioAmber is building a succinic acid plant in Sarnia, Ontario.
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