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Twenty years of bio-based PDO

01/05/2024
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 sourced biomaterial that became Susterra PDO. 

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