Sustainea, a joint venture between the Brazilian chemical maker Braskem and the Japanese trading firm Sojitz, plans to build a biobased ethylene glycol plant in Lafayette, Indiana. The plant will be ...

The homopolymer upon which it is built is PET, or polyethylene terephthalate ... and the diol ethylene glycol, which is the main component of automotive antifreeze. They found that the monomers ...