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RAW MATERIALS
Natures: Fully Biobased Polyesters for Coil Coating Applications Guglielmo Catel, Matteo Sitta Novaresine Srl – Colà di Lazise (Verona), Italy
catel.g@novaresine.com - sitta.m@novaresine.com
The increasing interest towards the
impacting on the carbon footprint.
highly pollutant and energy consuming
development of polymeric materials from
Then, from the scientific point of view,
processes to be oxidised.
bio-derived sources featured the last decade.
chemicals derived from biomasses offer
Thus we can formulate the “biorefinery”
The environmental benefits of sustainable
the potential advantage to skip many
concept, the place where this pre-
processes and renewable sources have been
functionalization steps in syntheses, which
functionalization becomes the main
widely studied and discussed.
are instead necessary in the conventional
advantage in manufacturing chemicals
As first thing, the launch of a chemical
oil-based chemistry. An interesting example
through the organic synthesis processes,
industry less dependent upon the crude-oil
is the introduction of oxygen-containing
bearing oxygen-based functional groups.
business is likely to be a subject showing
functions into an organic building block:
Most parts of the chemicals obtained from
great appeal on the audience, as much as the
molecules obtained from crude oil are
lignocellulosic biomasses and carbohydrates
increasing need to reduce pollutant emissions
exclusively hydrocarbons and they need
are either dicarboxylic acids or polyols, which
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N. 62 - MARCH/APRIL 2020 - international PAINT&COATING magazine