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AkzoNobel Turns To Sugar Beets

by Alex Scott
December 8, 2014 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 92, Issue 49

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Sugar from beets could cut AkzoNobel’s carbon footprint.
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Sugar from beets could cut AkzoNobel’s carbon footprint.

AkzoNobel, the Dutch paints and chemicals firm, has joined in a consortium investigating the possibility of producing chemicals from beet-derived sugar in the Netherlands. Financial services firm Deloitte has been tasked with evaluating the viability of several business cases for commercial production in the Delfzijl chemical cluster on the northern coast. A recent report by Deloitte identifies the Netherlands as a low-cost producer of sugar.

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