Tereos partners with Futerro to develop wheat-based bioplastics

In Belgium, Tereos and Futerro have signed a supply agreement that paves the way for the creation of a biomanufacturing platform that will produce innovative and sustainable biomaterials.

The collaboration between the two companies will see Tereos supplying Futerro every year with 150,000 tons of dextrose from wheat starch, produced directly at its Lillebonne plant, to supply Futerro’s future biorefinery nearby. Futerro will use this sustainable raw material to produce various bio-based platform molecules (lactic acid and lactide) and a recyclable and industrially compostable bioplastic (PLA).

Tereos currently employs more than 175 people in Lillebonne. Futerro estimates that around 1,150 jobs will be created along the new value chain between the two companies, 250 directly and 900 indirectly.

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