Roquette launches world's largest isosorbide production unit

13-Apr-2015 - Roquette announces the launch of a new industrial unit for the production of isosorbide at its site in Lestrem, Pas-de-Calais, France. Thanks to its new production unit, which has a capacity of 20,000 tons and uses high-performance technologies, Roquette offers its customers a range of POLYSORB® ...

Plant-based plastics

Roquette's GAÏALENE industrial unit fully operational

24-Feb-2012 - The Roquette Group is now becoming a major plant-based plastics player. It has successfully launched its first industrial production unit for GAIALENE® plant-based plastics at its main site in Lestrem (Pas-de-Calais). The construction of this industrial unit with a capacity of 25,000 tonnes was ...

Roquette and Rhodia Acetow sign joint development agreement for the elaboration of new plant-based polymers

09-Feb-2012 - Roquette and Rhodia Acetow have signed a Joint Development Agreement (JDA) to develop new plant-based polymers. The JDA will enable both companies to leverage synergies bringing together respective competencies in the field of plant-based polymer chemistry. Jean Bernard Leleu, Deputy CEO and ...

DSM and Roquette to open commercial scale bio-based succinic acid plant in 2012

10-May-2011 - Royal DSM and Roquette Frères announce that they will build a commercial scale plant for the production of bio-based succinic acid, the first non-fossil feedstock derived chemical building block that allows customers in the chemical industry to choose a bio-based alternative with a lower ...

DSM and Roquette to start bio-based succinic acid joint venture

30-Jun-2010 - Royal DSM N.V. and Roquette Frères announced that they have signed a joint venture agreement for the production, commercialization and market development of bio-based succinic acid, subject to regulatory approvals and notifications. The formation of the joint venture is a new step following the ...

DSM and ROQUETTE to commercialize bio-based succinic acid as of end 2009

11-Mar-2009 - Royal DSM N.V. and ROQUETTE confirmed that its bio-based succinic acid demonstration plant in Lestrem (France) will be operational by the end of 2009. The pilot scale production has proven that this biological route for producing succinic acid can be commercially viable. The first tests for ...

DSM and ROQUETTE jointly develop bio-based intermediate for 'green' performance materials

22-Jan-2008 - Royal DSM N.V. and the French starch and starch-derivatives company ROQUETTE have joined forces to implement and commercialize the fermentative production of biorenewable succinic acid, which -amongst other applications- opens the possibility to produce bio-based performance materials. By the end ...