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Twenty years of bio-based PDO

Twenty years of bio-based PDO

Biomaterials company Covation is celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the start of its commercial production of propanediol (PDO). Under previous owners DuPont and Tate & Lyle, commercialisation of the new, high-performance, renewably...

29 April 2024
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