WEST SACRAMENTO / AMSTERDAM – Carbon negative materials innovator Origin Materials has teamed up with Dutch renewable chemistry company Avantium to scale production of plant-based plastics for synthetic textiles and other uses.
The two companies aim to accelerate the mass production of FDCA (furandicarboxylic acid) as the key building block for PEF (polyethylene furanoate) – a 100 per cent recyclable, bio-based polymer.
PEF, which has been referred to as the next generation polyester, is said to have superior performance qualities to petroleum-based PET (polyethylene terephthalate).
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