5 May 2015
Know Global-Bioenergies Management
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Global Bioenergies (NYSE Alternext Paris: ALGBE)
announces the delivery of
the first batch of isobutene from renewable resources to
Arkema six months ahead of the projected schedule.
Since its startup in November 2014,
Global Bioenergies’ industrial pilot – installed on
the Pomacle-Bazancourt agro-industrial site
near Reims in France
– has been operated almost continuously
with the support of ARD,
an affiliate of French sugar producer Cristal Union.
The first tasks consisted in
scaling up the fermentation results achieved in the laboratory,
followed by
the startup of the purification and packaging module
to allow the production of purified isobutene batches.
One cylinder filled with liquefied isobutene
was then shipped to Arkema’s Pierre Bénite site south of Lyon
as part of the BioMA+ project,
which is financed by the French State
(Investissements d’Avenir, operated by the ADEME).
The isobutene will be converted into methacrylic acid
– a key component of acrylic paints -
at a pilot unit operated by Arkema.
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