Mitsubishi Chemical UK Limited

Polymethylmethacrylate (pMMA) is a transparent polymer, most familiar in the form of Perspex, used to make screens for phones, computers and TVs. pMMA is non-toxic, so it is used in contact lenses, medicine and dentistry. It is also used to manufacture parts for cars and aircraft, bathroom/kitchen units and fittings, and in paints and resins. Like all pla...

A global challenge is to improve the way in which mankind improves the consumption and disposal of commodity plastics. Alternative strategies to permit production of chemically identical “like-for-like” materials from sustainable biobased feedstocks as alternatives to existing petrochemical sources is required to help met the improve consumption and dispo...

There is large global demand for acetone for use as a solvent and in production of important chemicals and materials including transparent plastics such as methyl methacrylate (MMA). Acetone is currently produced by reacting petro-chemicals propylene and benzene, hence its price is volatile and the process is unsustainable. GBL are experts in clostridial ...

Ingenza and the University of Nottingham will engineer microorganisms for the utilisation of xylose and its conversion to products of interest by fermentation. We will exemplify the approach by converting xylose to a key intermediate required by Lucite International for the manufacture of monomers using sustainable bioprocessing. Use of xylose, derived fr...

The key challenge in this project is to demonstrate a fermentation process to produce biobutanol that can compete on price and quality with the incumbent petrochemical equivalent. Not only do we want to compete economically, we also want to demonstrate technology that can be deployed in the EU and Noth America using cellulosic feedstocks that are readily ...

In this project, the partners (GBL and Lucite) will determine the technical feasibility of engineering Clostridia to produce bioacetone in high yield (as opposed to biobutanol) using fermentation. The partners will also determine the economic feasibility and commercial viability of producing acetone as the sole fermentation product. It is envisaged that a...

Ingenza, Lucite and the University of Cambridge will apply innovative genome-scale flux balance analysis to rationally redesign the biochemistry of this organism to synthesise a high value polymer intermediate. Lucite, a UK based global leader in acrylic polymer manufacture will provide expert downstream chemistry, engineering and the route to market for ...

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In this project Ingenza, a World-leading Synthetic Biology company, and Lucite International, the global leader in Acrylics, will develop processes for the manufacture of monomer intermediates built around an Industrial Biotechnology platform. Ingenza will use it's state-of-the-art portfolio of Synthetic Biology tools to produce microbes capable of produc...