Cosun and Avantium announce collaboration

Breda, Amsterdam, 21 January 2009 - Today, Royal Cosun and Avantium announced the start of their collaboration. The companies join forces to develop a specific process for the production of a new generation of bioplastics and biofuels from selected organic waste streams. Avantium is developing these bioplastics and biofuels under the name ‘Furanics'.