DuPont Tate & Lyle Bio Products, LLC, the equally owned US$100 mln joint venture between DuPont and Tate & Lyle, has come onstream. This marks the growing demand for products made from the revolutionary Bio-PDO™ at Tate & Lyle's wet corn mill in Loudon. The Loudon facility produces 1,3-propanediol (Bio-PDO™) from corn sugar, making it the first facility in the world to manufacture this new bio-based product. The JV uses a proprietary fermentation process developed jointly by DuPont and Tate & Lyle to produce Bio-PDO(TM) using corn sugar instead of petroleum-based feedstocks. The production of Bio-PDO(TM) consumes 40% less energy and reduces greenhouse gas emissions by 20% compared to petroleum-based propanediol. Annual production of 100 million pounds of Bio-PDO ™ will save energy equivalent of over 15 million gallons of gasoline pa, or enough to fuel more than 27,000 cars.
Bio-PDO(TM) is a versatile, biodegradable and high-performance ingredient that can be used in cosmetics, liquid detergents and industrial applications such as anti-freeze and many other applications that currently use glycols. It also can be used as a monomer to produce unsaturated polyester resins as well as other specialty polymers such as DuPont ™ Sorona (R) and the latest renewably sourced polymer, DuPont ™ Cerenol ™. Renewably sourced Hytrel(R) thermoplastic elastomers and a new line of renewable DuPont automotive finishes are two new product lines scheduled to launch later this year.
11-Jun-07 
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