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TOKYO Yokohama Rubber Co. Ltd. (YRC) is claiming a research initiative it is part of has developed the world s first technology capable of producing butadiene a core building block of synthetic rubber used in tires efficiently from a biomass.
The breakthrough was achieved by the Bio-monomer Production Laboratory, a research initiative jointly established with the independent RIKEN Physical & Chemical Research Institute and Zeon Corp., Yokohama said.
Industrial butadiene is produced predominantly as a by-product of naphtha pyrolysis, YRC said, and as such developing an independent butadiene production technology would help reduce dependence on petroleum and lower carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, a major cause of global warming.
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