Japan’s Toray Industries reports success in producing laboratory-scale samples of the world’s first fully renewable biobased PET fibre.
To achieve this, it used fully renewable biobased PET polymer derived from biobased para-xylene supplied by Gevo, a leading US company in renewable chemicals and advanced biofuels.
Gevo has succeeded in converting isobutanol, produced from biomass, by employing its own highly effective production method employing synthetic biology to synthesize para-xylene employing conventional chemical processes used in commercial operations.
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