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Automotive Foam Basics: Public Procurement
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News<br />
BioAmber and<br />
Reverdia sign nonassertion<br />
agreement<br />
BioAmber Inc., which is headquartered in Montreal and<br />
Reverdia, the Netherlands-based joint venture between Royal<br />
DSM an d Roquette Frères, are both involved in the production<br />
and commercialization of bio-based succinic acid using their<br />
own unique proprietary yeast-based technologies.<br />
Pursuant to the key provisions of this agreement, BioAmber<br />
will benefit from non-assertion covenants with respect to<br />
certain intellectual property rights of Reverdia in the field<br />
of bio-based succinic acid, in exchange for undisclosed<br />
financial consideration. Furthermore, the agreement provides<br />
comfort to both BioAmber and Reverdia to continue the<br />
implementation of their respective businesses using their<br />
own unique, proprietary yeast-based technologies.<br />
“In today’s increasingly complex intellectual property<br />
environment, the conclusion of this agreement illustrates<br />
how two proactive companies operating in the same field can<br />
find a constructive solution that allows them to focus on the<br />
execution of their respective business plans rather than seeking<br />
confrontation and conflict,” said JF Huc, BioAmber’s Chief<br />
Executive Officer. “It allows BioAmber to eliminate the risk of<br />
litigation and uncertainty at a predictable cost,” he added.<br />
”This Agreement demonstrates that Reverdia’s<br />
Biosuccinium low pH yeast technology is a leading technology<br />
in the field of bio-based succinic acid and that by working with<br />
partners in the industry, we will speed up the adoption of biobased<br />
materials and validate bio-based succinic acid as a<br />
key building block for the bio-based economy,” said Marcel<br />
Lubben, Reverdia’s President. “It is our belief that the yeastbased<br />
technologies have a significant competitive advantage<br />
over bacterial-based technologies for the production of biobased<br />
succinic acid,” he added.<br />
Both Marcel Lubben and Jean-Francois Huc believe that<br />
the market for succinic acid will benefit from having strong<br />
players able to deliver on the rapidly growing demand in<br />
bio-plastics, polyurethanes, solvents, coatings and other<br />
applications. KL<br />
www.bio-amber.com | www.reverdia.com<br />
Bioplastic from<br />
biodiesel co-product<br />
glycerol<br />
An agreement signed today by Bio-on and S.E.C.I. S.p.A.<br />
(part of Gruppo Industriale Maccaferri Holding), will see<br />
Italy’s and the world’s first facility for the production<br />
of PHA bioplastics from a co-product from biodiesel<br />
production, namely glycerol.<br />
The two companies will collaborate on the construction<br />
of a production site with an initial output of 5 thousand<br />
tonnes/year, scalable to 10 thousand tonnes/year.<br />
S.E.C.I. is investing EUR 55 million in the facility,<br />
which will be located at an Eridania Sadam (also part<br />
of Maccaferri Holding) site and will be the world’s most<br />
advanced plant producing PHAs biopolymers from<br />
glycerol.<br />
PHAs, or polyhydroxyalkanoates, are bioplastics that<br />
can replace a number of traditional polymers currently<br />
made with petrochemical processes using hydrocarbons.<br />
The PHAs developed by Bio-on guarantee the same<br />
thermo-mechanical properties with the advantage of<br />
being completely naturally biodegradable.<br />
“We are investing EUR 4 million in purchasing the<br />
license for this new technology developed by Bio-on,” says<br />
Eridania Sadam Chairman Massimo Maccaferri, “because<br />
this all-natural bioplastic represents a technological<br />
challenge that can contribute towards the growth of our<br />
group in the new “green” chemistry industry, with an ecocompatible<br />
and eco-sustainable approach”.<br />
“We will create Italy’s first PHAs production plant from<br />
glycerol with one of Europe’s most important industrial<br />
groups,” explains Marco Astorri, Chairman of Bio-on<br />
“We have granted the first technological license from<br />
glycerol in line with our expectations and will be entering<br />
into a new collaboration to develop the promising highperforming<br />
biopolymers business developed by Bio-on.<br />
and produced in Italy from glycerol by S.E.C.I.” KL<br />
www.maccaferri.it | www.bio-on.it<br />
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