EcoSynthetix Inc. applies Green Chemistry to transform renewable resources into high-performance biobased products. Our products provide an enhanced performance window, cost benefits, and an improved environmental footprint when compared to the petroleum-based products they replace.

Some of the Green Chemistry principles EcoSynthetix follows include:

• The processes are designed to prevent waste, leaving no waste to treat or clean up.
• The processes and substances are designed with no toxicity to humans or the environment.
• All offered products use renewable feedstock, rather than depleting resources.
• The use and the creation of chemical derivatives are avoided.
• Safe solvents and reaction conditions are used in all processes.
• The offered products degrade into innocuous materials after use.

For example, EcoSphere® is a biopolymer derived from the fundamental re-engineering of renewable resources ("new" carbon) into biopolymer nanoparticles. When added to water, EcoSphere nanoparticles form a biobased latex dispersion, referred to as biolatex™ emulsion. Biolatex offers an intrinsic value proposition of a reduced carbon footprint. Since EcoSphere biolatex is manufactured from renewable feedstock, it maintains an equilibrium with the earth’s natural carbon cycle. In paper and paperboard applications, for example, our biolatex binder products replace petroleum-based styrene butadiene (SB) and styrene acrylate (SA) latex binders, which in contrast to biolatex, contain only "old" carbon derived from oil.

• For every 1 million pounds of SB and SA Latex substituted by biolatex, this intrinsically offers a reduction of 3.3 million pounds (1,515 metric tons) of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, the equivalent of eliminating CO2 emissions from approximately 400 cars. A 40% industry wide substitution level would reduce CO2 emissions by 2.5 million metric tons equating to ~650,000 cars off the road.
• In addition, the company has identified an industry wide impact of approximately 10 million metric tons in CO2 reductions due to other benefits (energy savings from higher solids, increased stiffness, freight savings (not having to ship 50% water), fiber reduction, enhanced recyclability and carbon tax credits). This amounts to a total estimated reduction in CO2 of approximately 12.5 million metric tons annually based on a 1:1 replacement of synthetic latex at a substitution level of 40%.
• This is expected to grow to 31 million metric tons annually as the technology achieves 100% substitution in the future.
• The company owns Composition of Matter, Application and Process Patents (issued and pending) for a variety of biomaterial products and their applications.
• The company focuses on highly concentrated market segments whose input costs are tightly coupled to the price of oil.

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