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Dutch project looks at making biopolyester from sugar

14/06/2016
Dutch university Wageningen UR has announced a project to develop performance biopolyesters from isoidide, a diol derived from food sugar. Companies taking part include DuPont, food processing company ADM and plastics firm Holland Colours. The project has the name HIPPIE (High-Performance Polymers from Isoidide).

Project manager, Wageningen UR academic Dr Rutger Knoop, said on announcing the development that isoidide has “highly favourable properties” and is “a promising chemical building block for the biobased economy”.




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