{"id":15229,"date":"2011-06-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-31T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bio-based.eu\/news\/index.php?startid=20110601-04n"},"modified":"2011-06-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-31T22:00:00","slug":"novamont-and-eni-to-build-e500m-biorefinery-in-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/novamont-and-eni-to-build-e500m-biorefinery-in-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"Novamont and Eni to build \u20ac500m biorefinery in Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Bioplastics producer Novamont has entered a joint venture with Eni in which the two Italian companies will build a \u20ac500m biorefinery in Porto Torres, Sardinia. The facility, dubbed the &#8220;Porto Torres Green Centre&#8221;, will be located at the petrochemical complex owned by Eni offshoots Polimeri Europa and Syndial. As well as providing the site, Eni will have responsibility for infrastructure and skilled labour.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Under the joint venture agreement, Novamont technologies and renewable raw materials will be used to build new production facilities for bio monomers, bio lubricants, bio fillers and bio intermediates\/additives for elastomers and bioplastics.<\/p>\n<p>The partners said in a statement there will be three stages to the construction work:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Stage 1 \u2013 facilities to produce bio monomers for bioplastics, bio lubricants and bio intermediates\/additives for elastomers;\n<\/li>\n<li>Stage 2 \u2013 facilities to produce bio fillers and bio intermediates\/additives for elastomers;\n<\/li>\n<li>Stage 3 \u2013 expansion of the stage 1 facilities to have greater capacity and building of a bioplastics plant.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The statement did not reveal production capacities or a construction timetable for the plant.<\/p>\n<p>Novamont currently produces its Mater-Bi family of bioplastics, based on corn starch and other renewable materials, at a factory in Terni, Italy. Novamont\u2019s overall production capacity is 80,000 tpa, but the company has not published its current production rate. Novamont has, for a number of years, expressed its desire to pursue a biorefinery project and become an integrated producer of bioplastics and their feedstocks.<\/p>\n<p>The statement said: &#8220;Novamont has chosen to face this challenge with Polimeri Europa because it believes that the union of a strong commitment to innovation and research of new materials from renewable sources and a long and recognized experience in the international chemical industry can successfully create an Italian case-study of global significance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For its part, Eni is aiming to boost its position in petrochemicals with a move into &#8220;green chemistry\u201d. &#8220;Through this strategic alliance between Polimeri Europa and Novamont, Eni believes that it can become a world leader in the bioplastics sector, a 100% Italian leader, which may bring numerous advantages for Italy, not least in economic and social terms,\u201d said the statement. The partners said that a major strategic role of the project will be the growing of local crops for use as raw material.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b>Bioplastics producer Novamont has entered a joint venture with Eni in which the two Italian companies will build a &euro;500m biorefinery in Porto Torres, Sardinia.<\/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":[3806,509],"class_list":["post-15229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","supplier-eni-spa","supplier-novamont"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15229","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=15229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15229"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=15229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}