Bio-Based Corn Plant to Produce Polymers, Plastics with Less Energy

Bio-Based Corn Plant to Produce Polymers, Plastics and More:

The production of Bio-PDO� consumes 30-40 percent less energy than petroleum-based PDO (on a per pound basis). Production of 100 million pounds of Bio-PDO� in the Loudon plant will save the equivalent of 10 million gallons of gasoline per year.

'The world is in a position today where we can no longer afford to rely solely on oil and oil-derived products to sustain us,' DuPont's Holliday said. 'Biology-based solutions offer us the opportunity to transform economies by creating new, high-performance bio-materials that use less energy to manufacture, are preferred by our customers and are better for the long-term health of our economy and the environment.'