In Sweden, Perstorp has launched renewable alternatives to trimethylolpropane and neopentyl glycol. Together with its existing biobased pentaerythritol, Perstorp says it is now the only company that offers the three essential polyols via renewable routes.
“The time is right to add two new renewable polyols,” Anna Berggren, Perstorp’s global market manager for resins, tells PlastEurope. “The market demand for bio-based material is rapidly increasing due to a strong focus on sustainable chemistry and renewable raw materials.”
The new polyols will become available at the start of 2018. Perstorp, which uses a “certified mass balance concept” to mix fossil and renewable materials, says it aims to be “finite material neutral” by 2013.