KUALA LUMPUR, March 1 (Bernama) -- Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation (MCC) has announced strategic partnerships for marketing its zeolite membranes, ZEBREX (TM), for bioethanol production.
The strategic partnerships consist of ICM Inc. (ICM) for North America and Mitsui & Co. Ltd. (Mitsui) for Asia-Pacific and Europe, which will accelerate MCC's business development in the bioethanol market further on a global scale.
MCC, in a statement said as known for engineering expertise in the fuel ethanol market, ICM's technology is used in more than half of ethanol plants in the United States, where the largest bioethanol production is taking place.
The combination of MCC's ZEBREX (TM) dehydration technology and ICM's process integration ability will speed the penetration of the zeolite membranes into the North American market.
Meanwhile, MCC will promote ZEBREX (TM) with Mitsui to bioethanol producers who can take advantage of the technology.
As a result of the partnership, one of the largest bioethanol producers in Europe, Pannonia Ethanol Zrt based in Hungary, has committed to install the world's largest ZEBREX (TM) system.
With the United States and Brazil leading the global market, the use of bioethanol derived from biomass feedstocks such as corn, sugarcane and cassava has been wide-spreading due to its carbon neutrality and potential to reduce greenhouse gas emission.
-- BERNAMA
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