Elevance And Genting Collaborate On Biorefinery

July 15, 2014
The biorefinery will produce renewable, high-performance olefins and metathesis technology.

Elevance Renewable Sciences, Inc. will collaborate with Genting Plantations Berhad through Genting Integrated Biorefinery Sdn Bhd (GIB), to be located in the Palm Oil Industrial Cluster (POIC) in Lahad Datu, Sabah, Malaysia.

The 25:75 collaboration between Elevance and Genting Plantations Berhad will build a 240,000 MT metathesis biorefinery based on Elevance’s metathesis technology, and will produce renewable, high-performance olefins and specialty chemicals that can be used in multiple end-product applications, including lubricants, surfactants and detergents.

As part of the collaboration agreement, GIB will pay Elevance license and design fees, and Elevance will provide intellectual property rights, knowledge transfer, and technical and consulting services. Elevance will be exclusively responsible for the sale of all specialty chemicals produced at the biorefinery.

For more information, visit: www.elevance.com

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