Going to scale: The Digest’s 2016 8-Slide Guide to Avantium

BASF and Avantium have now signed a letter of intent and entered into exclusive negotiations to establish a joint venture for the production and marketing of furandicarboxylic acid (FDCA), as well as marketing of polyethylenefuranoate (PEF), based on this new chemical building block. FDCA is produced from renewable resources. Here below is the most recent update on Avantium’s technology and progress.