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New sustainable plastics player |
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Creating polymers that are constituted 50% by weight from carbon dioxide, new materials company Novomer Inc. (Ithaca, NY) is aiming to produce biodegradable, performance plastics from renewable resources, using chemistry versus biology. “We’re really at our core a chemistry company, not a biology company,” Novomer President Charles Hamilton told MPW, compared to biobased competitors that apply biological processes like fermentation. “We don’t do any biology at all, and I think that helps us improve the purity of materials. We can make things to very specific specifications with very, very high purity and very tight poly dispersion that are very difficult with biology.”
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