LANZATECH
Partnership with US chemical company to produce polypropylene from CO2
 Twelve transforms CO2 emissions into chemicals, materials and fuels traditionally made from fossil fuels (Photo: Panthermedia/Datenschutz) |
US gas fermentation technology specialist LanzaTech (Roselle, Illinois; www.lanzatech.com) has partnered with Twelve (Berkeley, California / USA; www.twelve.co) a chemical company that transforms CO2 emissions into chemicals, materials and fuels traditionally made from fossil fuels, to make polypropylene from CO2 streams.
Through the partnership, LanzaTech will apply its “Pollution to Plastics” carbon recycling technology, which uses proprietary microbes in a bioreactor to produce ethanol and other materials from waste carbon sources. Twelve’s “Carbon transformation” technology produces “CO2Made” carbon-negative chemicals as well as carbon-neutral fuels. The partnership brings the two technology platforms together to enable additional product development from CO2 streams.
The companies say there is no trade-off in quality, efficacy or performance when producing polypropylene from CO2, water and renewable energy instead of fossil fuels. Etosha Cave, chief science officer at Twelve, said, “CO2Made products could improve the climate by drawing on the overabundance of CO2 in the atmosphere, and could reduce carbon emissions by 700m t/y, if it replaced all of the world’s fossil PP production.” So far, at least two companies have employed the LanzaTech process (see Plasteurope.com of 12.08.2021 and 05.11.2020).
Through the partnership, LanzaTech will apply its “Pollution to Plastics” carbon recycling technology, which uses proprietary microbes in a bioreactor to produce ethanol and other materials from waste carbon sources. Twelve’s “Carbon transformation” technology produces “CO2Made” carbon-negative chemicals as well as carbon-neutral fuels. The partnership brings the two technology platforms together to enable additional product development from CO2 streams.
The companies say there is no trade-off in quality, efficacy or performance when producing polypropylene from CO2, water and renewable energy instead of fossil fuels. Etosha Cave, chief science officer at Twelve, said, “CO2Made products could improve the climate by drawing on the overabundance of CO2 in the atmosphere, and could reduce carbon emissions by 700m t/y, if it replaced all of the world’s fossil PP production.” So far, at least two companies have employed the LanzaTech process (see Plasteurope.com of 12.08.2021 and 05.11.2020).
20.09.2021 Plasteurope.com [248574-0]
Published on 20.09.2021