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Just One Word: Bio-PTA

Aug 12, 2011

Among the biomaterials production firm he profiles this week, Plastics News' Mike Verespej discusses how the Lansing, Mich.-based Draths Corp. is using synthetic biology approaches to produce muconic acid as a building block for renewable bio-purified terephthalic acid, or bio-PTA.

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