Dublin, Jan. 05, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Lactic Acid Market by Application (Biodegradable Polymers, Food & Beverages, Pharmaceutical Products), Form, and Region, Polylactic Acid Market, by ...

Biopolymers have a variety of possible applications due to their renewable characteristics and their potential biodegradability. Biopolymers are polymers that are either bio-based, biodegradable, or ...

Chicago, Jan. 23, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Lactic acid is a type of organic acid that belongs to the alpha hydroxy acid (AHA) family. It is a colorless, water-soluble liquid that occurs naturally in ...

In early 2000, the Cargill Dow joint venture announced that it would build a 300 million-lb-per-year plant in Blair, Neb., making polylactic acid (PLA). The product was going to be the first commodity ...

One of the biomass polymers, poly(lactic acid) (PLA), has attracted much attention as an alternative for petroleum-based polymers. 1 It is well known that PLA has two ...

Professor Hideto Tsuji and Assistant Professor Yuki Arakawa at the Toyohashi University of Technology have developed a method for synthesizing a "pure" alternating copolymer of L- and D-lactic acids ...

Teijin Ltd., the Japanese supplier of stereocomplex polylactic acid (PLA) polymer, says Biofront, its biodegradable offering, now boasts virtually the same level of durability as polyethylene ...

Futerro, an affiliate of the Belgian lactic acid maker Galactic, plans to build a polylactic acid (PLA) plant in Port-Jérôme, in the Normandy region of France. The biobased-polymer facility will ...

Synthetic biologists have become increasingly creative in engineering yeast or bacteria to churn out useful chemicals - from fuels to fabrics and drugs - beyond the normal repertoire of microbes. But ...