{"id":35444,"date":"2016-06-24T07:05:35","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T05:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rss.nova-institut.net\/public.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.plasticsnews.com%2Farticle%2F20160614%2FNEWS%2F160619931%2Fanellotech-moving-closer-to-production-for-bio-based-pet"},"modified":"2016-06-16T12:45:44","modified_gmt":"2016-06-16T10:45:44","slug":"anellotech-moving-closer-to-production-for-bio-based-pet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/anellotech-moving-closer-to-production-for-bio-based-pet\/","title":{"rendered":"Anellotech moving closer to production for bio-based PET"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Anellotech Inc. will commission a development facility soon en route to making bio-paraxylene from non-food biomass and, eventually, a stream of bio-based PET for containers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pilot plant developer Zeton Inc. of Burlington, Ontario, is creating the capability for Anellotech in a newly constructed 100-foot-tall silo at the Silsbee, Texas, petrochemical facility of South Hampton Resources Inc., a segment of publicly traded Trecora Resources. Work on the silo started in January.<\/p>\n<p>Anellotech is evaluating a to-be-identified \u201cpioneer commercial site for large-scale production by the end of the decade,\u201d David Sudolsky, president and CEO, said in a June 7 interview at the Sustainable Brands event in San Diego.<br \/>\nThe aim is to start with agricultural residue or wood and make usable product in one reactor. Johnson Matthey plc of London is the catalyst development partner.<\/p>\n<p>Beverage brewer and distiller Suntory Holdings Ltd. of Osaka, Japan, invested more than $15 million in the aromatic hydrocarbon conversion project over 3.5 years, Sudolsky said. \u201cSuntory sees a value in being first.\u201d Another unidentified firm is also a major investor.<\/p>\n<p>Axens SA of Rueil-Malmaison, France, a venture of IFP Group Technologies, has an exclusive global license for commercialization of the technology. A related entity, IFP \u00c9nergies nouvelles, is Anellotech\u2019s process development and scale-up partner for the proprietary Bio-CTat-brand thermal catalytic biomass conversion technology.<br \/>\n\u201cThe chemicals produced from this process are identical to those made from petroleum and can plug directly into an existing 100 billion-dollar market,\u201d said Robert Evans, who joined Anellotech as vice president of business development in April.<\/p>\n<p>Anellotech employs 23 and leases a Pearl River, N.Y., facility that Pfizer Inc. occupied previously.<\/p>\n<p>Anellotech was cofounded in 2008 by Sudolsky and George Huber, an engineering professor then at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst and now at the University of Wisconsin. Fund raising started in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Sudolsky notes that \u201canello\u201d means \u201cring\u201d in Italian. \u201cWe make a ring structure,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anellotech Inc. will commission a development facility soon en route to making bio-paraxylene from non-food biomass and, eventually, a stream of bio-based PET for containers. 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