{"id":23876,"date":"2015-01-06T02:29:28","date_gmt":"2015-01-06T01:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=23876"},"modified":"2015-01-05T15:05:38","modified_gmt":"2015-01-05T14:05:38","slug":"large-scale-bioplastics-project-starts-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/large-scale-bioplastics-project-starts-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Large-scale bioplastics project starts in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A 50,000-metric-ton-per-year polylactic acid resin and processed products plant broke ground last week in Taizhou, China.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hisun said it is investing a total of 950 million yuan ($152.6 million) on the 50-acre production site. Construction is estimated to take 18 months.<\/p>\n<p>Once it reaches its designed capacity, the project is expected to generate 1.65 billion yuan ($265.3 million) in average annual sales, the company said in a Dec. 26 statement.<\/p>\n<p>Hisun commissioned a 5,000-ton PLA plant in 2006 and claims to be the second largest PLA producer in the world. It serves a wide range of end markets including 3-D printing, housewares, disposable products, baby products, and fiber.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 50,000-metric-ton-per-year polylactic acid resin and processed products plant broke ground last week in Taizhou, China. Hisun said it is investing a total of 950 million yuan ($152.6 million) on the 50-acre production site. Construction is estimated to take 18 months. Once it reaches its designed capacity, the project is expected to generate 1.65 billion [&#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":[],"class_list":["post-23876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23876","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=23876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23876"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=23876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}