Bio-based polymers made from renewable feedstocks have started to replace conventional
polymers produced from fossilfuel. 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