BASF Shelves ‘Green’ PDO Program

Diercks: Feedstock too expensive. BASF has shelved plans to commercialize a newly developed process to produce 1,2 propanediol (PDO) using glycerol feedstock, a by-product of biodiesel manufacture, CW has learned (CW, Nov. 7, 2007, p. 13). The company had hoped to build a commercial plant with capacity for about 100,000 m.t./year of PDO at one of its integrated sites in Europe. “We have successfully developed the new technology, but at the moment it is very difficult to contract large quantities of glycerol from the market because most of the potential...

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