Yokohama, RIKEN, Zeon claim breakthrough in sustainable butadiene sourcing
Print TOKYO — Yokohama Rubber Co. Ltd. (YRC) is claiming a research initiative it is part of has developed the world's first technology capable of producing butadiene — a core building block of synthetic rubber used in tires — efficiently from a biomass. The breakthrough was achieved by the "Bio-monomer Production Laboratory," a research initiative jointly established with the independent RIKEN Physical & Chemical Research Institute and Zeon Corp., Yokohama said. Industrial butadiene is produced predominantly as a by-product of naphtha pyrolysis, YRC said, and as such developing an ind...
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