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To: kinkblot who wrote (3)	11/12/2001 9:24:40 PM
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PLA from corn at Cargill Dow cargilldow.com Cargill Dow will produce the plastic polymer polylactic acid (PLA) from an annually renewable raw material - corn. As they describe it in a recent press release: "PLA relies on basic fermentation and distillation as its core chemical process, followed by simple polymerization to make polylactide (PLA)." The biochem approach uses chiral excretions of bacteria as a precursor; this reduces cost versus the chemical approach that required segregation of the desired isomer (in this case left-handed) from a mixture. They are currently scaling up production at their new facility. See "Shucking Petroleum" by Jonathan Fahey, Forbes Magazine forbes.com [.../y/md/page.html] Elsewhere in the cornfield, DuPont is trying to make part of its new polymer Sorona, now made with an expensive petrochemical process, out of corn. Using an E. coli bacteria that eats corn sugar and discharges a key Sorona ingredient will save DuPont 25%. DuPont predicts demand for Sorona, which turns out a soft and stretchy fabric like a cross between nylon and polyester, reaching 1 billion pounds or more by 2010. This is an R&D collaboration with Genencor.

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