{"id":61047,"date":"2019-03-01T07:20:59","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T06:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=61047"},"modified":"2019-02-26T12:20:51","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T11:20:51","slug":"the-changing-landscape-of-bio-based-succinic-acid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/the-changing-landscape-of-bio-based-succinic-acid\/","title":{"rendered":"The changing landscape of bio-based succinic acid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The bio-succinic acid market has significantly gone through a tumultuous change just in the past five years alone, from being the young, rising star of the bio-based chemical building blocks industry into a young adult looking for its rightful career path within the global chemicals space. Among the four initial companies that jump-start this market: Myriant, BioAmber, Reverdia, and Succinity \u2013 the recent news of Reverdia\u2019s dissolution has left only Succinity as the remaining original player, and it is not even known if Succinity is still producing bio-succinic acid at its 10 ktpa\u00a0Montmelo, Spain, facility as there have been no updated news from this company for the past 2 years now.<\/p>\n<p>DSM announced last week that Reverdia will be dissolved effective April 1, 2019, and the partners, DSM and Roquette, will transfer the rights and obligations related to Reverdia\u2019s 10 ktpa Biosuccinium plant in Cassano, Italy, to Roquette.\u00a0 Under a non-exclusive license from DSM, Roquette will operate the plant and continue serving customers of Biosuccinium.\u00a0 Customer service, order processing, and marketing and sales will be integrated into Roquette\u2019s existing business to ensure a smooth transition.<\/p>\n<p>DSM, the original developer of the Biosuccinium technology, will assume the role of the exclusive licensor, reportedly in line with its business model in this field.\u00a0 The technology has reportedly matured to a point where the roll-out potential is significant enough to warrant a focused effort in licensing.<\/p>\n<p>I will be discussing more of this topic including the current market situation of the succinic acid in China at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.orbichem.com\/Chemical_Business_Focus.aspx?ReportID=363&amp;ProductID=167&amp;DontShow=1\" target=\"_blank\">Tecnon OrbiChem\u2019s upcoming March Biomaterials issue<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-61049\" src=\"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Bildschirmfoto-2019-02-26-um-12.17.50.png\" alt=\"Bildschirmfoto 2019-02-26 um 12.17.50\" width=\"390\" height=\"129\" srcset=\"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/media\/2019\/02\/Bildschirmfoto-2019-02-26-um-12.17.50.png 390w, https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/media\/2019\/02\/Bildschirmfoto-2019-02-26-um-12.17.50-300x99.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 390px) 100vw, 390px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bio-succinic acid market has significantly gone through a tumultuous change just in the past five years alone, from being the young, rising star of the bio-based chemical building blocks industry into a young adult looking for its rightful career path within the global chemicals space. Among the four initial companies that jump-start this market: [&#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":[10408],"supplier":[1180,12205,2249,3364,3928],"class_list":["post-61047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","tag-greenchemistry","supplier-bioamber-inc","supplier-dsm","supplier-myriant-technologies-llc","supplier-reverdia","supplier-succinity-gmbh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61047","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=61047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61047"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=61047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}