Abstract
Ineos is set to become one of the first companies to produce polyvinyl chloride from a biobased raw material, and not everyone thinks it’s a good idea. The feedstock Ineos has chosen is tall oil, a byproduct of papermaking. PVC is usually made by combining chlorine with ethylene obtained from fossil fuel. Ineos will substitute some tall oil for fossil-derived naphtha to produce ethylene in one of its crackers in Cologne, Germany. The firm has an agreement to source the tall oil from the Finnish paper firm UPM Biofuels. The two crackers have a combined annual output of 1.3 million metric tons (t) of ethylene, which Ineos converts into more than 4 million t of PVC, polyethylene, and other products. Ineos isn’t saying how much of that output will be based on tall oil. Ineos is branding its bio-PVC as Biovyn. It is set for use in products including food
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