Minnesota start-up announces renewable MMA route

Ascenix BioTechnologies (St. Paul, MN), a renewable chemicals start-up spun out of the University of Minnesota, says it has developed a fermentation-based process to produce methyl methacrylate (MMA) that bypasses the hazardous and increasingly scarce feedstocks necessary to produce MMA from petroleum. "There are two problems with synthesizing MMA from petroleum," says Kechun Zhang, a chemical engineering and materials science professor in the university's college of science and engineering who invented the process. "Manufacturers in the US need...

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