PBS Markets and Applications

The first commercial PBS polymers were produced by Showa High Polymer (Japan) under the trade name Bionolle [118] (Table 9.8). Mitsubishi Chemical (Japan) introduced PBS into the market in 2003 under the name GSPla. In 2006 Hexing Chemical Anhui (China) started producing PBS and in 2007 Xinfu Pharmaceutical (China) built a PBS-production line. 

Poly(butylene succinate) is currently used in fast-food packages, bottles, disposable plastic bags, mulch films and so on [85, 104, 105]. In these applications PBS is used as a homo 

Company Production Location Product Capacity 2009 kt/year Capacity planned kt/year 

BASF and Purac Germany/Spain Succinic acid R D 25 

Myriant United States Succinic acid Pilot scale 50 

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