{"id":31742,"date":"2016-01-26T07:41:54","date_gmt":"2016-01-26T06:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rss.nova-institut.net\/public.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.biofuelsdigest.com%2Fbdigest%2F2016%2F01%2F19%2Fnew-building-block-the-digests-2016-8-slide-guide-to-dupont-adms-novel-fdme-molecule%2F"},"modified":"2016-01-25T10:15:21","modified_gmt":"2016-01-25T09:15:21","slug":"new-building-block-the-digests-2016-8-slide-guide-to-dupont-adms-novel-fdme-pathway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/new-building-block-the-digests-2016-8-slide-guide-to-dupont-adms-novel-fdme-pathway\/","title":{"rendered":"New building block: The Digest\u2019s 2016 8-Slide Guide to Dupont, ADM\u2019s novel FDME pathway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>This week,\u00a0DuPont Industrial Biosciences and Archer Daniels Midland announced a new \u201cbreakthrough process\u201d in producing FDME from fructose, with \u201cthe potential to expand the materials landscape in the 21st century with exciting and truly novel, high-performance renewable materials\u201d, the companies said in a joint release.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s FDME, or furan dicarboxylic methyl ester, with\u00a0applications in packaging, textiles, engineering plastics and many other industries.<\/p>\n<p>One of the first polymers under development utilizing FDME is polytrimethylene furandicarboxylate (PTF), a novel polyester also made from DuPont\u2019s proprietary Bio-PDO\u00a0(1,3-propanediol). PTF is a 100-percent renewable and recyclable polymer that, when used to make bottles and other beverage packages, substantially improves gas-barrier properties compared to other polyesters. This makes PTF a great choice for customers in the beverage packaging industry looking to improve the shelf life of their products. Here\u2019s DuPont\u2019s look at the molecule, its applications, and some background from PatentWorld on whose been working on what, and why.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; This week,\u00a0DuPont Industrial Biosciences and Archer Daniels Midland announced a new \u201cbreakthrough process\u201d in producing FDME from fructose, with \u201cthe potential to expand the materials landscape in the 21st century with exciting and truly novel, high-performance renewable materials\u201d, the companies said in a joint release. It\u2019s FDME, or furan dicarboxylic methyl ester, with\u00a0applications in [&#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":[196,337],"class_list":["post-31742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","supplier-archer-daniels-midland-company-adm","supplier-dupont"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31742","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=31742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31742"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=31742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}