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Chemicals: Chemical Building Blocks for a Range of End-Use Applications

The Anellotech Bio-TCat™ process safely and cost-competitively produces economical yields of aromatics from non-food biomass. These chemicals are critical feedstocks for significant consumer and industrial applications. Bio-based BTX can be used to make high volume commodity polymers, including Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET), Polycarbonate, Polyurethane, Nylons, SBR, ABS and other polymers which are in turn used to produce beverage bottles, food packaging, clothing, carpeting, automotive components, electronic components and a broad range of other products. Today, almost 100% of these everyday products are made from aromatics derived from petroleum-sourced BTX.
 
These markets represent a substantial opportunity for Anellotech licensees. Despite strong demand from beverage companies, there is no renewable bio-paraxylene, the base feedstock for PET, that is commercially-available on the market today. Approximately 54 million tons of PET is manufactured globally. According to IHS Markit, PET usage in beverage bottles is expected to grow over 5% per year over the next five years. Numerous large-scale Bio-TCat plants would need to be constructed just to satisfy this beverage bottling demand growth. Suntory, one of the world’s leading consumer beverage companies, has partnered with Anellotech to advance the development and commercialization of cost-competitive aromatics including bio-paraxylene – the key missing component needed to make 100% bio-based PET bottles. Suntory currently uses 30% bio-based PET for its Suntory Tennensui brand of mineral water and is pursuing the development of a 100% bio-based bottle through its collaboration with Anellotech. The alliance was honored as a ‘Top 10 Innovation’ award at the 2017 Innovation for Cool Earth Forum (ICEF) in Japan.
 
Anellotech and its partners also plan to produce prototype samples of various benzene derivatives such as nylons, polycarbonate, styrenics polymers and linear alkyl benzene (used in laundry detergent) as well as other bio-based polymers for use in discussions with potential strategic partners including brand owners and chemical companies.
 
Anellotech’s ability to economically create aromatics from renewable biomass will change how the industry sources these chemicals. It will enable broad adoption of the Bio-TCat process and widespread use of “green” cost-competitive bio-based BTX derivatives.

Fuels: Economical, Versatile and Highly Sought After Fuel Blend Stocks.

AnelloMateTM is the brand name given to the family of liquid products made in the Bio-TCatTM process. It includes:

  1. ‘AnelloMate BTX’ a naphtha containing over 90% bio-BTX
  2. ‘AnelloMate Distillate’ a middle and heavy distillate range hydrocarbon mixture

AnelloMate products offer a unique opportunity for cellulosic sourced biofuels with the same properties as conventional fuels, including fungibility in fuel distribution systems. As AnelloMate products are made from renewable cellulosic biomass they will qualify for renewable fuel credits such as RINs in the USA. For the AnelloMate BTX, its higher energy density compared to ethanol means that an additional 0.5 RIN per gallon credit is available, thus increasing the value of the product even further.
 
AnelloMate BTX can be separated and upgraded in conventional aromatic separation and conversion plants into high purity benzene, toluene, paraxylene and other products which, in turn, can be made into renewably sourced polymers. AnelloMate BTX can also be used as a high octane and low vapor pressure gasoline blendstock after removal or conversion of the benzene to meet strict limits on gasoline composition. AnelloMate Distillate can be used as a renewable fuel oil for heat or upgraded via hydrogenation into renewable distillate fuel blendstocks for jet or diesel fuel use.
 
If renewable chemicals-to-polymers markets are the desired targets, Bio-TCat offers the ability to create high purity bio-based aromatic chemicals. If the goal is to make fuels, Bio-TCat can effectively maximize fuels production. Bio-TCat’s flexibility to produce chemicals or fuels provides greater opportunity to serve dual product markets with optimized profitability.

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Global Deployment

Anellotech’s proprietary biomass pre-treatment process, MinFree™, will enable a broad range of biomass to be converted to aromatics, allowing for global deployment, whether a licensee chooses for chemicals or fuels. This ability to economically produce aromatics from renewable biomass will change how the industry sources these chemicals and will enable broad adoption of the Bio-TCat™ process and widespread use of renewable, cost-competitive bio-based aromatic derivatives.

Anellotech Will License the Bio-TCat™ Process Technology Globally To Customers Who Will Build and Operate Commercial Plants

Anellotech and its commercial partners are planning a licensing strategy for commercialization of the Bio-TCat process for chemicals sector markets.  This strategy is based on pursuing a link between the Bio-TCat technology and consumer-facing brand owners who are aggressively implementing bio-polymer packaging applications in key product areas such as human beverage bottling or other key bio-plastics packaging applications.
 
Anellotech also intends to pursue the licensing of its Bio-TCat process to produce fuels.  The Bio-TCat process holds the promise to be the first bona fide economically competitive cellulosic conversion process for production of high quality fuels. 
 
By pursuing a licensing business model, Anellotech can generate revenues by bringing the technology to a worldwide market, while its customers, with substantial chemical plant or refinery operating experience, can build profitable commercial units. Anellotech will continue its research work and pilot plant operations, for on-going improvement of the Bio-TCat technology.

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