{"title":"Goodyear, Visolis plan biobased isoprene","authors":"None Matt Blois","doi":"10.1021/cen-10137-buscon9","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company is working with the biomanufacturing firm Visolis to develop a process for producing biobased isoprene, a precursor for some types of synthetic rubber used to make tires. Isoprene is typically made as a by-product of oil refining. Visolis plans to make the chemical from lignocellulosic feedstock, which is inedible biomass. In 2007, Goodyear entered into a partnership with Genencor to produce isoprene enzymatically from plant sugars. The partners initially hoped to commercialize the product by 2013 but haven’t announced additional progress.","PeriodicalId":9517,"journal":{"name":"C&EN Global Enterprise","volume":"28 9","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"C&EN Global Enterprise","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1021/cen-10137-buscon9","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company is working with the biomanufacturing firm Visolis to develop a process for producing biobased isoprene, a precursor for some types of synthetic rubber used to make tires. Isoprene is typically made as a by-product of oil refining. Visolis plans to make the chemical from lignocellulosic feedstock, which is inedible biomass. In 2007, Goodyear entered into a partnership with Genencor to produce isoprene enzymatically from plant sugars. The partners initially hoped to commercialize the product by 2013 but haven’t announced additional progress.