{"id":15310,"date":"2011-08-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-25T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bio-based.eu\/news\/index.php?startid=20110826-01n"},"modified":"2011-08-26T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-25T22:00:00","slug":"drop-in-commodity-chemicals-from-renewable-feedstocks-on-the-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/drop-in-commodity-chemicals-from-renewable-feedstocks-on-the-rise\/","title":{"rendered":"Drop-In commodity chemicals from renewable feedstocks on the rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>New biopolymers created the initial buzz in bioplastics. But making drop-in commodity chemicals from renewable feedstocks has captured the imagination of many in the chemical industry. &#8220;The starch guys and the polylactic acid producers are still there and still rapidly expanding,\u201d said Jim Lunt, founder and managing director of Jim Lunt and Associates LLC, a technology commercialization firm based in Wayzata, Minn.<\/b> <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But the market trend is clearly moving to bio-based polymers that are identical to polymers made from petroleum,\u201d said Lunt in an interview. &#8220;We\u2019re seeing a whole slew of startups focused on making building blocks to make large commodity polymers. &#8220;Those drop-in replacements of existing petroleum-based monomers will be the first to market\u201d of those now on the drawing board, rather than new bioresins with new products.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8230; <b>More at:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plasticsnews.com\/headlines2.html?id=22953\" >www.plasticsnews.com\/headlines2.html?id=22953<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Keywords:  market capacity, non-food feedstocks, single-use products, niche markets, market growth<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b>New biopolymers created the initial buzz in bioplastics. But making drop-in commodity chemicals from renewable feedstocks has captured the imagination of many in the chemical<\/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":[1604,2812,2116,103,2161,2822],"class_list":["post-15310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","supplier-braskem","supplier-draths-corp","supplier-jim-lunt-associates-llc","supplier-natureworks-llc","supplier-new-york-university","supplier-nexant-inc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15310","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=15310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15310"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=15310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}