Abstract
No one can say what the hardest task in industrial chemistry is, but developing a biobased route to an obscure chemical, running the process at large scale, and getting the exotic molecule to compete with entrenched petrochemicals is as good a guess as any. This is exactly what BioAmber is attempting. The company has a gleaming new plant in Sarnia, Ontario, that can crank out more succinic acid than any other facility in the world. It has real customers putting the building block chemical to use in a variety of specialty applications. Now BioAmber is aiming higher. The firm is beginning to cultivate a market for the chemical in polyester for beverage containers, an application that could gobble up all the succinic acid it can send from its loading docks. But it will be a tough business to break into. BioAmber is a relatively old hand in the new field
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