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Polymers
Avantium opens its first FDCA plant
by Alex Scott
October 27, 2024
| A version of this story appeared in
Volume 102, Issue 34
Credit: Avantium
Queen Máxima of the Netherlands and Tom van Aken, CEO of Avantium, opened the new plant.
The Dutch technology firm Avantium has opened its first plant for making biobased furandicarboxylic acid (FDCA), a precursor for the polymer polyethylene furanoate, in Delfzijl, the Netherlands. Opened by Queen Máxima of the Netherlands, the plant has a capacity of 5,000 metric tons per year. Avantium will use the plant to showcase the technology as part of its licensing strategy.
Chemical & Engineering News
ISSN 0009-2347
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