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BASF and Avantium announce major polymer joint venture

07/10/2016

Chemical companies BASF and Avantium are to form a joint venture for the production and marketing of furandicarboxylic acid (FDCA), which is produced from renewable resources and is a building block for the new polymer polyethylenefuranoate (PEF). Manufacturers of chemicals believe that industries currently using purified terephthalic acid (PTA)...

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