{"id":27126,"date":"2015-07-21T02:29:43","date_gmt":"2015-07-21T00:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=27126"},"modified":"2015-07-20T15:32:59","modified_gmt":"2015-07-20T13:32:59","slug":"gfbiochemicals-starts-production-of-levulinic-acid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/gfbiochemicals-starts-production-of-levulinic-acid\/","title":{"rendered":"GFBiochemicals Starts Production Of Levulinic Acid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The announcement was made at the BIO World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology, Montreal. GFBiochemicals is the first company to produce levulinic acid at commercial scale directly from biomass.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cCaserta is now the world&#8217;s largest operational production plant for levulinic acid,\u201d said Chief Commercial Officer Marcel van Berkel.\u00a0 \u201cA fundamentally lower price range is now possible using our unique technology.\u00a0 This will give access to previously undiscovered market segments.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CEO Maxim Katinov said, \u201cGFBiochemicals has successfully achieved a substantial milestone \u2013 the start-up of commercial-scale production.\u00a0 I would like to praise and thank our engineering and R&amp;D teams who have clearly demonstrated the company\u2019s ability to deliver results on schedule.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>About GFBiochemicals<\/h3>\n<p>Founded in 2008, GFBiochemicals uses breakthrough technology to commercialize levulinic acid \u2013 a valuable biobased building block for specialty chemicals and materials.\u00a0 With offices in Milan, Italy and Geleen, the Netherlands, its commercial-scale production plant is based in Caserta, Italy.\u00a0 Personnel have decades of proven experience in innovation, production and business development of biobased chemicals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The announcement was made at the BIO World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology, Montreal. GFBiochemicals is the first company to produce levulinic acid at commercial scale directly from biomass. \u201cCaserta is now the world&#8217;s largest operational production plant for levulinic acid,\u201d said Chief Commercial Officer Marcel van Berkel.\u00a0 \u201cA fundamentally lower price range is now possible [&#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":[9363],"class_list":["post-27126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","supplier-gfbiochemicals-ltd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27126","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=27126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27126"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=27126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}