Foreword
Lactic acid can be made
chemically, but most often is made via biotechnological routes – the anaerobic
fermentation of sugars – which requires a lactic acid producing bacteria. Praj
Industries, who offer technology for lactic acid production, have signed a
memorandum of understanding with Lygos to develop their proprietary yeast
platform for lactic acid production using Praj’s technology for process
optimisation and scale-up.
Lactic acid can be used in a
variety of industries – in food as a preservative, in personal care for creams
and lotions and in pharmaceuticals. It can be processed into polylactic acid
(PLA), an industrially compostable plastic used in a variety of applications
including food packaging. Lactic acid can also be used as a platform molecule
for the production of various other useful chemicals. Using a fermentation
product from biobased sugars as a building block for other chemicals is a way
in which to increase the biobased content of a wider market of chemicals.
One such chemical is........
Other News this Month Includes:
Policy
- BBIA joins call for oxodegradable ban
- Interpretation of EU directive concern
Markets
- Praj and Lygos to develop PLA yeast
Research & Development
- Novo Nordisk Foundation receives €100 million grant
- Towards biobased fire-resistant composite
- WRAP lays out 6 steps for circular growth
Polymers
- UPM launches Forest Film PE
- Collaboration for renewable polycarbonates
- UPM sites hold ISCC certification
- New Avantium plant
Chemicals
- CO2 to care products
- Biobased acrylic acid innovation
- Brontide distributor in US announced
- Catalysed production of aromatics derived from biomass
Consumer Products
- Cutlery to be made biobased
- Clariant polymers achieve certification
- New biobased and renewables team at Sulzer
Patents
Events
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