Plans for industrial scale succinic acid production

10-Oct-2012

BASF and Purac, a subsidiary of CSM, are establishing a joint venture for the production and sale of biobased succinic acid. The company will be named Succinity GmbH and will be operational in 2013. The establishment of Succinity GmbH is subject to filing with the relevant competition ...

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The two companies will intensify their collaboration with the aim to become the leading supplier in the succinic acid market

03-Aug-2011

BASF SE and Purac, a subsidiary of CSM nv, announced the start of negotiations to form a joint venture for the production of bio-based succinic acid. The companies have been conducting research under a joint development agreement on bio-based succinic acid since 2009. The complementary strengths ...

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25-Feb-2011

CSM's subsidiary Purac and Indorama Ventures PLC (IVL) are in discussions to set up a Polylactic acid (PLA) manufacturing facility in Thailand, with an initial capacity of 10,000 tons per annum being raised to 100,000 tons per annum after developing application specific grades. This product ...

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09-Apr-2010

CSM and its subsidiary Purac announced the official start of construction for its new Lactide plant in Thailand. The groundbreaking ceremony was held at the existing Purac site in Rayong, Thailand. The plant will produce monomers for bioplastics. The investment is driven by CSM’s commitment to ...

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23-Feb-2010

Purac, a CSM company, signed a research contract to participate in the research program of BE-Basic; a consortium of international knowledge institutes, the Dutch government, global industry and financial partners. The research program aims at developing an economy based on renewable resources. ...

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22-Dec-2009

CSM announced that its subsidiary Purac will start with the construction of a Lactide plant in Thailand to produce components for bioplastics. This investment is driven by CSM’s commitment to play a leading role in the development of the market for lactic acid based bioplastics (PLA). This market ...

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01-Oct-2009

BASF SE and CSM nv announced the cooperation between their respective subsidiaries BASF Future Business GmbH and PURAC for the development of the production of biobased succinic acid. Both partners have been working on the development of the industrial fermentation and down-stream processing of ...

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16-Jul-2008

CSM announced that negotiations with AVEBE have progressed so well that it has signed a Heads of Agreement with the intention to sell the gluconates production plant of its subsidiary PURAC in Ter Apelkanaal to AVEBE. The completion of the transaction is scheduled for September 30, 2008. The ...

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08-Apr-2008

The new state-of-the-art lactic acid plant of CSM subsidiary PURAC in Rayong, Thailand has officially been opened on April 4, 2008 with a grand ceremony attended by the Secretary General of the Thailand Board of Investment, the Governor of Rayong province, the Dutch Ambassador as well as many ...

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