Plastics from sugar cane coming to Asia
Posted on October 1st, 2008 by Green Assembly
SINGAPORE ~ Braskem, a Brazilian petrochemical company, and Japan’s Toyota group have decided to bring to Asia what they choose to call “green” polyethylene.
Braskem plans to produce the polyethylene from sugar-cane for the first time in the world on an industrial scale by 2011, it said in a statement.
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