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Braskem & Toyota Tsusho start joint marketing activities for green polyethylene from sugar cane |
Braskem S.A., the Latin America´s leading petrochemical company, and
Toyota Tsusho Corporation have agreed to carry out, through a
commercial contract, joint marketing activities for green polyethylene
from sugarcane in Asian regions including Japan. Braskem plans to
produce green polyethylene for the first time in the world on an
industrial scale by 2011.
Braskem will build a new facility at
their existing industrial unit in Triunfo, RS, Brazil with an annual
production capacity of 200,000 tons, and will produce High Density
Polyethylene (HDPE) and Low Density Polyethylene (LDPE) from bioethanol
derived from sugarcane - non-grain feedstock.
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