{"id":17110,"date":"2013-10-01T17:18:43","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T15:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=17110"},"modified":"2013-10-03T17:22:04","modified_gmt":"2013-10-03T15:22:04","slug":"rennovia-launches-100-bio-based-nylon-6-6-polymer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/rennovia-launches-100-bio-based-nylon-6-6-polymer\/","title":{"rendered":"Rennovia launches 100% bio-based nylon-6.6 polymer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Rennovia, Inc. (Rennovia), a privately held company that develops novel catalysts and processes for the cost advantaged production of chemical products from renewable feedstocks, announced that it has produced, and shipped to a prospective partner, samples of what it believes to be the world\u2019s first 100% bio-based nylon-6,6 polymer, under Rennovia\u2019s RENNLON brand, made from Rennovia\u2019s renewable monomers, RENNLON adipic acid (AA) and RENNLON hexamethylenediamine (HMD).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rennovia previously announced the production of bio-based adipic acid (AA) and bio-based hexamethylenediamine (HMD) from widely available, renewable feedstocks, using its proprietary chemical catalytic process technology. Rennovia\u2019s AA and HMD processes employ proprietary catalyst technology developed using its advanced high-throughput catalyst discovery and development platform.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPracticing our AA and HMD processes at demonstration scale is the next important milestone for the company,\u201d said Robert Wedinger, President and CEO of Rennovia. Production costs for Rennovia\u2019s bio- based AA and HMD are projected to be 20-25% below that of conventional petroleum-based AA and HMD, with a significantly lower per-pound capital cost.<\/p>\n<p>Additional projected benefits include an 85% reduction in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions compared to conventional petroleum-derived AA, and a 50% reduction in GHG emissions compared to conventional petroleum-derived HMD.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe production of 100% bio-based nylon-6,6 further validates Rennovia\u2019s unique ability to create technological breakthroughs in the production of bio-based chemicals and materials, with projected significant cost advantages and environmental benefits vs. products produced from petroleum-based feedstocks\u201d added Wedinger.<\/p>\n<p>Over 6 billion pounds of nylon-6,6 (also known as polyamide-6,6 or PA66) is currently produced per year from petroleum-derived adipic acid (AA) and hexamethylenediamine (HMD), representing a global market of more than $6 billion.\u00a0 Nylon-6,6 is a widely used high-performance engineering resin, used especially in the automotive market for its strength, light weight, and performance at high temperatures. Nylon-6,6 is also used in a wide range of fiber applications, including textiles, carpets, technical fibers and tire-cord.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>About Rennovia:<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Rennovia is a chemical process technology development company focused on the creation of novel processes for the cost-advantaged production of commodity and specialty chemicals from renewable feedstocks.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rennovia, Inc. (Rennovia), a privately held company that develops novel catalysts and processes for the cost advantaged production of chemical products from renewable feedstocks, announced that it has produced, and shipped to a prospective partner, samples of what it believes to be the world\u2019s first 100% bio-based nylon-6,6 polymer, under Rennovia\u2019s RENNLON brand, made from [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"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":[4896],"class_list":["post-17110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","supplier-rennovia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17110","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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17110"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=17110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}