Verbio CEO Sauter says chemical industry must “defossilize” using renewable carbon sources

By Public Technologies
  • Verbio management outlined plans to scale biobased specialty chemicals, targeting up to 60,000 tons a year from its Bitterfeld site.
  • CEO Claus Sauter framed the strategy as “defossilization,” shifting chemical feedstocks from crude oil to renewable carbon sources.
  • The Bitterfeld plant will use rapeseed methyl ester in an ethenolysis process, bringing Nobel Prize-winning metathesis chemistry to industrial scale.
  • Capex was set at nearly EUR 100 million, with output ramped in stages to match customer demand.
  • Initial products include 1-decene, plus 9-DAME as a new platform molecule aimed at detergents, lubricants, plastics feedstocks.


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