Archer Daniels Midland Co. and DowDuPont have not yet decided where to build a commercial manufacturing facility for their new bioplastic technology, a plastic derived from corn being made to compete against the petroleum-based plastics that have been used for decades to bottle soda and other products says a report at Herald & Review.
The material made at the test facility in Decatur, GA, is called furan dicarboxylic methyl ester (FDME). Developers of the product from ADM and DowDuPont say FDME can either be combined with another plant-based material made by DowDuPont to form a plastic entirely free of petroleum, or it could be blended with traditional plastics to create stronger and more resilient packaging.
Regardless of where the new plant ends up, ADM and DowDuPont executives say FDME will create a new market for corn producers.
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