Global production of lactic acid increases after Cellulac announces opening up of new production facility

In a recent move, Cellulac has express its views to build production facility in Dundalk which will be capable of producing 20 ktpa of ethyl acetate by June 2014, and it will further increase limits to 100 ktpa by 2016. The greatest portion of news in this announcement is the global presence of D- Lactic acid which will be produced at 40% cost of the present global rate. Gregard Brandon, CEO for Cellulac also confirmed that this combination of D- and L+ Lactic acid will feature more heat tolerance as compared to L-lactic acid. It has also made arrangements for the biomass feedback such as DDGS, SBG and lactose whey which will be used to produce D- Lactic acid at this biggest production facility with exceptional and advanced fermentation technology.

With selected microbes and customized enzyme production of its own, Cellulac is ought to make use of the latest SoniqueFlo Technology which is quite vital in pretreatment of biomass after lactobacillus fermentation and enzymatic hydrolysis. http://greenchemicalsblog.com/2013/12/30/cellulac-to-build-lactic-acid-plant/ reports that this firm is targeting future ethanol producers’ partnerships to increase production of D- Lactic acid and improve profit margin. Energy efficient processing plants have already been installed using this excellent technology which will give a boost to energy savings by 67%. On the other hand, Direvo is also using BluCon technology to produce lactic acid at lower costs through conversion of non-food biomass stock.