Bio-based polymers made from renewable
feedstocks have started to replace conventional
polymers produced from fossil
fuel. We offer a complete plant solution for
a PLA polymerization process which was
jointly developed with Purac, a company
of the Dutch CSM group. Lactide monomer
is polymerized in a continuous, fully
integrated process using Sulzer‘s proprietary
SMRTM plus equipment. The unique
geometry of the Sulzer Mixing Reactor is
highly suited for an accurate control of the
(exothermic) polymerization temperature
and optimized mixing. Summarizing, our
state-of-the-art PLA polymerization technology
has the following advantages over
other technologies