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Zeon Corp. has completed construction of a bench-scale demonstration facility at its Tokuyama Plant (Shunan City, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan) to showcase technology for efficiently producing butadiene from ethanol sourced from plant-based and other sustainable materials. Construction began in July 2025, and the facility is scheduled to begin full-scale operation in January.

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Zeon completes bio-based butadiene demonstration facility at Tokuyama Plant

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Zeon Corp. (Tokyo, Japan) has completed construction of a bench-scale facility at its Tokuyama Plant (Shunan City, Yamaguchi Prefecture) to demonstrate technology for highly efficient production of butadiene from ethanol derived from plant-based and other sustainable materials. Construction of the facility began in July 2025.  The facility is scheduled to begin full-scale operation in January […]

The post Zeon completes bio-based butadiene demonstration facility at Tokuyama Plant appeared first on Chemical Engineering.

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