{"id":51171,"date":"2018-03-20T07:32:41","date_gmt":"2018-03-20T06:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=51171"},"modified":"2018-03-16T12:27:02","modified_gmt":"2018-03-16T11:27:02","slug":"total-corbion-pla-announces-successful-start-up-of-pilot-plant-in-rayong-thailand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/total-corbion-pla-announces-successful-start-up-of-pilot-plant-in-rayong-thailand\/","title":{"rendered":"Total Corbion PLA announces successful start-up of pilot plant in Rayong, Thailand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Total Corbion PLA, global technology leader in Poly Lactic Acid (PLA) and\u00a0lactide monomers, announces that it has successfully started up its 1 kTpa PLA pilot plant in Rayong, Thailand. The pilot plant started up in December 2017 and over the past two months has produced a broad range of Luminy<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> PLA resins.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur customers have been looking forward to testing and validating our Luminy\u00ae PLA resins\u201d says Senior Marketing Director, Francois de Bie. \u201cWith the successful start-up of the pilot plant, Luminy\u00ae PLA from the pilot plant is now available for customer sampling\u201d. In addition, the pilot plant is being used to train operators and to get a head start on the required product certifications and regulatory needs. In future, Total Corbion PLA will also be able to use the pilot plant for product development.<\/p>\n<p>With the start-up of the pilot plant, Total Corbion PLA is gearing up to become a world scale producer of PLA: on the same site, Total Corbion PLA\u2019s Lactide plant is being expanded to 100 kTpa and a 75 kTpa PLA polymerization plant is under construction. \u201cSince ground breaking in November 2016, the project has amassed more than 2.2 million safe working hours to date\u201d, says Simon Goldney, Plant Director. \u201cThe PLA\u00a0polymerization plant is on track to deliver its first commercial quantities of PLA during the second half of 2018.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Upon completion, Total Corbion PLA\u2019s production facility in Thailand will produce a broad portfolio of Luminy<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> PLA neat resins: from standard PLA to innovative, high heat resistant PLA, to satisfy customer requirements for a wide range of markets from\u00a0packaging to consumer goods, fibers and automotive.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For more information on how to make the switch to biobased PLA, or to obtain sample material for trials, please contact us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Total Corbion PLA, global technology leader in Poly Lactic Acid (PLA) and\u00a0lactide monomers, announces that it has successfully started up its 1 kTpa PLA pilot plant in Rayong, Thailand. The pilot plant started up in December 2017 and over the past two months has produced a broad range of Luminy\u00ae PLA resins. \u201cOur customers have [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"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":[5847,12661],"supplier":[13186],"class_list":["post-51171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","tag-bioplastics","tag-resins","supplier-total-corbion-pla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51171","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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51171"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=51171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}