{"id":20211,"date":"2014-05-06T03:00:04","date_gmt":"2014-05-06T01:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=20211"},"modified":"2014-05-05T08:58:36","modified_gmt":"2014-05-05T06:58:36","slug":"ramping-development-new-bio-based-liquid-rubber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/ramping-development-new-bio-based-liquid-rubber\/","title":{"rendered":"Ramping Up Development of New Bio-Based Liquid Rubber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Aiming to ramp up the development of a new biomaterial-based liquid rubber, Kuraray Co. Ltd. (Headquarters: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; President: Fumio Ito) has signed a new joint development agreement with Amyris, Inc. (Headquarters: Emeryville, California, U.S.A.; CEO: John Melo). In addition to the new development agreement, Kuraray has also made a strategic capital investment in Amyris.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Background<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Kuraray has been expanding business related to liquid isoprene rubber and liquid butadiene rubber, focusing on applications for tires.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>In addition, we have developed liquid farnesene rubber (LFR), which uses Amyris\u2019s new biologically derived diene monomer as a raw material.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Adding LFR to the rubber used in the manufacture of tires has been found to reduce rolling resistance, leading to higher fuel efficiency.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Since signing an initial agreement with Amyris in 2011, Kuraray has been working with tire manufacturers around the world to assess the benefits of LFR in tire performance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Outline of Collaboration Expansion<\/h3>\n<p>1. Joint Development Agreement<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Extends the current 2011\u20132014 agreement for two additional years.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Expands the scope of joint development using farnesene which includes hydrogenated styrene thermoplastic elastomers\u2014one of Kuraray&#8217;s core businesses.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>2. Strategic Investment<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kuraray made a $4 million capital investment in Amyris<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><strong>About Amyris<br \/>\n<\/strong>Amyris was founded in 2003 in the San Francisco Bay Area of California and develops advanced biotechnologies to convert plant sugars into a variety of molecules. The company was listed on the NASDAQ in 2010. The company\u2019s bio-based products are being developed for a wide range of applications, including fragrances, cosmetics and personal care products, plastic additives, and renewable diesel and jet fuel.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aiming to ramp up the development of a new biomaterial-based liquid rubber, Kuraray Co. Ltd. (Headquarters: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; President: Fumio Ito) has signed a new joint development agreement with Amyris, Inc. (Headquarters: Emeryville, California, U.S.A.; CEO: John Melo). In addition to the new development agreement, Kuraray has also made a strategic capital investment in Amyris. [&#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":[2389,6813],"class_list":["post-20211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","supplier-amyris","supplier-kuraray"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20211","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=20211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20211"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=20211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}