{"id":15273,"date":"2011-05-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-08T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bio-based.eu\/news\/index.php?startid=20110509-06n"},"modified":"2011-05-09T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-08T22:00:00","slug":"sugar-based-surfactants-on-the-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/sugar-based-surfactants-on-the-rise\/","title":{"rendered":"Sugar based surfactants on the rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Growing demand for alkyl polyglucoside (APG) &#8211; a non-ionic surfactant made from vegetable oils and starch &#8211; is driving new developments and increasing marketing for other sugar-based surfactants. These products could replace traditional petroleum and even other natural oils-based surfactants.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Natural surfactants continue to gain traction, especially in the mass-market product categories such as personal care, laundry detergent and home care cleaning products. Growth in naturally derived specialty surfactants, which account for only 10 per cent of the overall $600m (\u20ac413m) global specialty surfactants market, is expected to grow by 4 per cent yearly through 2013, led by APG, according to Anna Ibbotson, industry manager for chemicals and materials at US consultancy Kline &#038; Co.<\/p>\n<p>Germany-based Cognis, now owned by compatriot firm BASF, is the world&#8217;s largest APG surfactant producer. Other suppliers include European chemical firms Clariant, Croda and SEPPIC, and South Korea-based LG Household &#038; Health Care. Cognis expanded its APG capacity last year with a new 25,000 tonne\/year plant in Jinshan, China, citing increased demand as the major driver for the investment. The chemical business division of LG Household &#038; Health Care also expanded its APG plant in Onsan, South Korea, in January because of high demand. It did not disclose the plant&#8217;s capacity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b>Growing demand for alkyl polyglucoside (APG) &#8211; a non-ionic surfactant made from vegetable oils and starch &#8211; is driving new developments and increasing marketing for<\/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":[75,2104,42,2159,2628],"class_list":["post-15273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","supplier-basf-se","supplier-clariant-international-ag","supplier-cognis-gmbh","supplier-croda","supplier-seppic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15273","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=15273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15273"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=15273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}