WOODRIDGE (Yosefardi) – Wilmar, world’s largest CPO producer, and Elevance Renewable Sciences Inc have begun shipping commercial products, including novel specialty chemicals, to customers from their first world-scale joint venture biorefinery in Gresik, East Java.
The commercial-scale manufacturing facility produces novel specialty chemicals, including multifunctional esters such as 9-decenoic methyl ester, a unique distribution of bio-based alpha and internal olefins including decene and a premium mixture of oleochemicals. It has a capacity of 180kMT with the ability to expand up to 360kMT of products.
”We are pleased that startup is complete and shipments to customers from our joint venture are now underway,” Rahul Kale, Head of Biofuels and Oleochemicals at Wilmar International Limited, said.
The biorefinery will initially operate using palm oil, but it is capable of running on multiple renewable oil feedstocks, including mustard, soybean and, when they become commercially available, jatropha or algal oils.
By Hatman Bintang