{"id":56375,"date":"2018-02-28T07:22:07","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T06:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=56375"},"modified":"2018-09-08T14:03:35","modified_gmt":"2018-09-08T12:03:35","slug":"weylchem-enters-bio-based-polymer-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/weylchem-enters-bio-based-polymer-market\/","title":{"rendered":"WeylChem Enters Bio-Based Polymer Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WeylChem Group of Companies through its member company Allessa has significantly expanded its product range. Based on a license by Dupont, Allessa is currently constructing a full-scale production unit for Poly(oxytrimethylene)glycol (PO3G), a polymer made from 1,3-propanediol (Bio-PDO), which itself is derived from biological raw materials. Commercial quantities of PO3G will be available from the 2nd half of 2015 onwards.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>PO3G has diverse fields of application, for example in high-performance elastomers, performance coatings, ink-jet inks, functional fluids and especially in personal care products, due to its very low toxicity.<\/p>\n<p>Compared to petrochemical alternatives such as PTMEG, PO3G has a significantly lower environmental footprint, saving 40 % in nonrenewable energy consumption and reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 42 %, as proven by an ISO 14.000-compliant life cycle analysis.<\/p>\n<p>But \u201cbio-based\u201d is by far not the only advantage. PO3G with its C3-carbon chains shows outstanding performance characteristics which are different from the petroleum-based C2- and C4-alternatives. C3 seems to be just the right kind of balance between hydrocarbon chain and polar oxygen spacers. It offers long durability in end use applications and exhibits excellent thermooxidative stability.<\/p>\n<p>A number of various chain-lengths and grades are available on request. This family of high performance polyols is an ideal replacement for petroleum-based ingredients. This offers numerous advantages in various fields of applications without compromising functionality and increasing the renewable content of final products at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Contact<\/h3>\n<p>Peter Talbiersky<br \/>\nWeylChem International GmbH<br \/>\nPhone: +49 (0) 69 506 820 2386<br \/>\nEmail: <a href=\"mailto:peter.talbiersky@weylchem.com\" target=\"_blank\">peter.talbiersky@weylchem.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WeylChem Group of Companies through its member company Allessa has significantly expanded its product range. Based on a license by Dupont, Allessa is currently constructing a full-scale production unit for Poly(oxytrimethylene)glycol (PO3G), a polymer made from 1,3-propanediol (Bio-PDO), which itself is derived from biological raw materials. Commercial quantities of PO3G will be available from the [&#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":[5847,6026],"supplier":[14912],"class_list":["post-56375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","tag-bioplastics","tag-biopolymers","supplier-weylchem-international-gmbh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56375","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=56375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56375"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=56375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}