Succeeded in commercial production of natural polymer from Eucommia ulmoides seed peels

(Japan Science and Technology Agency) JST has announced a success of the development subject 'Manufacturing Technology for New Plant-Origin Functional Materials' in developing a refining facility that reduces manufacturing cost of the Eucommia elastomer to approximately one-eighth of the cost at the beginning of the project and producing 10 tons of Eucommia elastomer per year highly efficiently with an extraction purity of 99.8%.
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - Category: Biology Source Type: news