Hyosung to spend $1 billion to convert sugar into biobased BDO
In South Korea, c&en reported that Hyosung, the world’s largest maker of spandex fibers, plans to spend $1 billion on a site in Vietnam that will use Genomatica’s fermentation technology to convert sugar into 1,4-butanediol (BDO), a spandex precursor that’s typically made from coal or natural gas. According to the report, Hyosung plans to produce […]
