{"id":63249,"date":"2019-05-16T07:20:48","date_gmt":"2019-05-16T05:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=63249"},"modified":"2019-05-13T08:15:26","modified_gmt":"2019-05-13T06:15:26","slug":"arkema-selects-singapore-for-the-production-of-its-rilsan-high-performance-bio-sourced-polyamides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/arkema-selects-singapore-for-the-production-of-its-rilsan-high-performance-bio-sourced-polyamides\/","title":{"rendered":"Arkema selects Singapore for the production of its Rilsan<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> high-performance bio-sourced polyamides"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-63255 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/ATO_3375_2030.jpg_1134140949-300x280.jpg\" alt=\"ATO_3375_2030.jpg_1134140949\" width=\"300\" height=\"280\" \/>Arkema has chosen the location of Jurong Island in Singapore to build its new world-scale plant dedicated to the manufacture of the amino 11 monomer and its flagship Rilsan<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> polyamide 11 resins. With this 50% increase in its global capacities announced in July 2017, the Group supports strong demand from its customers in Asia for high-performance bio-sourced solutions addressing the major opportunity of material lightweighting in particular.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Arkema has chosen the Jurong Island site in Singapore to set up its new bio-sourced polyamide production site. This location offers many advantages in terms of infrastructure, logistics, industrial integration and operational excellence, as well as optimization of the activity\u2019s carbon footprint.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This major investment bolsters our global presence in bio-sourced materials while bringing us significantly closer to our customers in Asia. Singapore\u2019s industrial and innovation-friendly environment is, we believe, a key asset for our project.&#8221; (Erwoan Pezron, Global Group President for Arkema\u2019s Technical Polymers business line)<\/p>\n<p>Rilsan<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> polyamide 11 is derived from castor oil and so is the only 100% bio-sourced polyamide approved for many of the most demanding applications, in particular in the electronics, 3D printing, oil and gas extraction, and\u00a0automotive markets, as a substitute to metal.<\/p>\n<p>This project is part of the Group\u2019s exceptional investments totaling some 500 million euros earmarked for the 2018-2021 period essentially. Construction is scheduled to be completed by late 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arkema has chosen the location of Jurong Island in Singapore to build its new world-scale plant dedicated to the manufacture of the amino 11 monomer and its flagship Rilsan\u00ae polyamide 11 resins. With this 50% increase in its global capacities announced in July 2017, the Group supports strong demand from its customers in Asia for [&#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":[13481,12661],"supplier":[],"class_list":["post-63249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","tag-polyamide","tag-resins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63249","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=63249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63249"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=63249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}