DuPont Tate & Lyle Bio Products begins Bio-PDO™ production in Tennessee
27 November 2006

On 27 November 2006, DuPont Tate & Lyle Bio Products LLC, an equally owned joint venture of DuPont and Tate & Lyle, announced the first commercial shipments of Bio-PDO™ from its $100 million facility in Loudon, Tennessee, USA. The Loudon facility produces 1,3-propanediol (Bio-PDO™) from renewable resources – in this case corn sugar – making it the first facility in the world to manufacture this new bio-based product.

The joint venture uses a proprietary fermentation process developed jointly by DuPont and Tate & Lyle to produce Bio-PDO™ using corn instead of petroleum-based feedstocks. The production of Bio-PDO™ consumes 40 percent less energy and reduces greenhouse gas emissions by 20 percent versus petroleum-based propanediol. Production of 100 million pounds of Bio-PDO™ will save the energy equivalent of 10 million gallons of gasoline per year, or enough to fuel 22,000 cars annually.

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