The commercial debut for a continuous route to PLA

摘要

Harbin Weilida Pharmaceutical Co.Ltd.is building what is claimed to be the world's first fully continuous polylactide (PLA;poly lactic acid) plant at Harbin Heilongjiang Province,China.When the 10,000-m.t./yr plant starts up in the second half of 2007,it will be the first commercial plant to make PLA using a process developed by Uhde In-venta-Fischer (Domat/Ems,Switzerland and Berlin,Germany;edUnks.che.com/4821-532).