GFBiochemicals Ltd., the Italian green chemical company started by Crystal Palace midfielder Mathieu Flamini, will build a biorefinery in the U.S. to make plastics and solvents in a way that avoids using fossil fuels.<\/p>\n
The company, founded in 2008 by Flamini and his business partner Pasquale Granata, joined with biotech company American Process Inc. to redevelop an old industrial site into a cellulosic biorefinery, according to a statement by the two companies on Friday.<\/p>\n
GFBiochemicals\u2019 plant in Caserta, Italy, about 28 miles (45 kilometers) outside Naples, is the largest producer of levulinic acid, a little-known chemical that comes from plants and that can be used to make environmentally-friendly fuels, plastics and food preservatives. The closely-held company estimates the market eventually may be worth $10 billion.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is an important first step in our strategy to partner with major market players in the bioeconomy,\u201d Flamini said in an emailed statement.<\/p>\n
API\u2019s existing biorefinery in Georgia takes biomass to produce cellulosic sugars. GFBiochemicals wants to use those sugars to produce levulinic acid for use in a range of applications. It can go into solvents and plasticisers, which make brittle items more flexible.<\/p>\n
The companies didn\u2019t disclose the value of the investment. The plant will be able to create as much as 50,000 tons to 200,000 tons of the material a year, according to the press release. It would be a major step beyond the roughly 10,000 tons a year that GFBiochemicals can produce from its current plant in Italy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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