BASF develops sugar manufacturing plastics project

According to reports, BASF signed a one-year cooperation agreement with the United States Metab Bolix and plans to jointly develop a project to make plastics from sugar. The newly produced biodegradable plastics can be widely used in the production of films, fibers, thermoplastic materials, adhesive materials, or coating dispersants.

People in the industry pointed out that as a long-term means of industrial production, this research project has a broad prospect of development. At present, Metabolex uses sugar as raw material, and the pilot phase of the production of plastics material using fermentation technology has ended, and the batch materials obtained are provided to BASF. The research department of BASF researches and studies the polyester. Various properties and properties of plastic materials and further processing into plastic products