{"id":14672,"date":"2009-01-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-07T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bio-based.eu\/news\/index.php?startid=20090108-03n"},"modified":"2009-01-08T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-07T22:00:00","slug":"ireland-glycerin-to-plastic-technology-under-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/ireland-glycerin-to-plastic-technology-under-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland: Glycerin-to-plastic technology under development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Ireland-based company Biobode is developing technology that converts crude glycerine into commodity plastics. The glycerine accounts for 20 to 38 percent of the plastic&#8217;s volume, measured by weight, with the remainder of the material made from low-cost commodity chemicals.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The technology has been under development of two and a half years, and although currently working on a bench-scale, there are plans to produce it on a pilot scale in approximately 18 months time. Due to glycerin&#8217;s current low value, the plastic would cost 15 or 25 percent less than petroleum-based commodity plastics, depending on whether crude or technical grade glycerin was used, according to Scott O&#8217;Connor, Biobode&#8217;s Chief Executive Officer. The company is currently seeking partners to further develop and commercialise the technology.<\/p>\n<p><b>Further information<\/b><br \/>Biodiesel magazine: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biodieselmagazine.com\/article.jsp?article_id=2992\" >Biobode develops glycerin-to-plastic technology<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b>Ireland-based company Biobode is developing technology that converts crude glycerine into commodity plastics. The glycerine accounts for 20 to 38 percent of the plastic&#8217;s volume,<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[],"supplier":[],"class_list":["post-14672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14672"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=14672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}