Can sugar beets produce chemicals?

AkzoNobel has joined forces with Suiker Unie, Rabobank, Deloitte, Investment and Development Agency for the Northern Netherlands, Groningen Seaports, and the Province of Groningen to produce chemicals from beet-derived sugar feedstock. The parties have asked Deloitte to perform a feasibility study to provide an independent critical review and economic assessment on the viability of several business cases for commercial production in the Delfzijl chemical cluster in the Netherlands. The study will take around three months to complete and the partners expect to identify one or more successful business cases for commercial production in Delfzijl (News Item Environmental Leader, 26 November 2014).
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