{"id":19109,"date":"2014-02-03T03:18:38","date_gmt":"2014-02-03T01:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biofuelsdigest.com\/biobased\/2014\/01\/30\/toray-to-change-to-biobased-polymers-for-its-polyester-fiber-production\/"},"modified":"2014-02-02T19:18:04","modified_gmt":"2014-02-02T17:18:04","slug":"toray-plans-bio-based-polymer-transition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/toray-plans-bio-based-polymer-transition\/","title":{"rendered":"Toray plans bio-based polymer transition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MUNICH \u2013 Japanese textile giant Toray has said it plans to transition all of its polyester fibre production to \u2018plant-based\u2019 polyester where at least 30 per cent of the biopolymer is derived from waste molasses \u2013 a by-product of the sugar industry that is normally disposed of. The company, which has an annual polyester capacity of 488,000 tonnes, has also commenced work on the construction of a pilot-scale facility to help it make 100 per cent bio-based polyester yarns. John Mowbray reports from ISPO, Germany.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Japan, Ecotextile reports that Toray intends to change its entire polyester fiber production to p&#8230;<\/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":[709],"class_list":["post-19109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","supplier-toray-industries-inc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19109","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=19109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19109"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=19109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}