Countries look at green chemistry optimistic "money" view

Although the severe investment environment last year caused some green chemical investment projects to die, the "money" scene in this area is still optimistic. Erik Rutten, senior manager of DSM Venture Capital, recently stated that under the background of global response to climate change and people’s high hopes for new alternative energy sources, the huge potential for development and innovation in green chemistry has attracted many Investors, the amount of investment in new projects will surge.
Ruten believes that the current overall valuation of Green Chemicals is relatively low, and now is an excellent opportunity for investors to enter the field of green chemistry. DSM Venture Capital has taken the lead in this area. Not long ago, following the successful investment in US acetyl ketone producer Segetis, the company also invested in Novomer, a bio-based plastics technology company, and Bioprocess Control, a biogas processing company in Sweden.
US Segetis Corporation completed a new round of US$1.72 billion financing plan by attracting investment from Malaysia Life Science Capital Fund and DSM Venture Capital. "In the current situation, funding is a very big difficulty for us, but we successfully completed the second round of financing plans," said Atul Thakrar, president and chief executive officer of the company. . In January last year, the company opened a set of acetophenone production facility with a capacity of 113 tons/year in the United States. Right now, this company is paying close attention to the market situation of acetone and hopes to be able to sell the product on a large scale in 2011.
More and more investment institutions are showing increasing investment enthusiasm for green chemistry. Even in the context of the deteriorating global investment environment last year, DNP Greentech has still attracted investment from France and South Korea. In January of this year, Bioamber Co., a joint venture between DNP Greentech and French Agricultural Research and Development Co., Ltd., invested US$27 million to build the world's first biosuccinic acid production unit. The device uses wheat-derived glucose as raw material, and its initial production capacity. 2000 tons/year; the company also acquired Sinoven Biopolymers Inc. last month and will use DNP biosuccinic acid as raw material to produce biodegradable modified plastics.
Other companies have recently begun commercial production of biosuccinic acid. BASF, in cooperation with Purac, a lactic acid producer, plans to commercialize biosuccinic acid in the first half of this year. DSM is also developing a biosuccinic acid production process, and plans to build a commercial-scale installation in 2012, when the company will cooperate with Roquette, a French company engaged in the processing of agricultural materials, to implement this project.
With the great enthusiasm of investors, both manufacturers of renewable chemical reagents and industrial biotech companies have also taken active actions. Right now, they are actively demonstrating their own development plans and attracting financial companies to invest in this area.
Jean-Francois Yuk, president of DNP Green Technologies, said that for investors, especially venture capital companies, the green chemistry project is investing in other cleantech markets and healthcare-related biotechnology market projects. There are big differences in the return models, and they need to gradually deepen their understanding of this field. At present, the macroeconomic situation is very beneficial to the development of green chemistry, but there is no successful experience to help investors set goals in the field of green chemistry and enhance their investment strategies.
Sakola also shared the same view - how to elucidate the preparation principles and performance of new products, bio-acetone, to investors and potential consumers is a major challenge that Segetis faced. Obviously, from an investor's point of view, a technology that has intellectual property rights, a wide range of market applications, and widely recognized performance, as well as companies with reliable business models, is very attractive, but allows investors to enter In-depth understanding of the field must take considerable effort.

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