On April 2, 2002, Cargill Dow, LLC, now NatureWorks, LLC, celebrated the grand opening of its Blair, NE, plant for the manufacture of polylactic acid (PLA) corn-based biopolymer. It was the first global-scale manufacturing plant capable of making commercial-grade plastic from annually renewable resources and was heralded as "a second industrial revolution" by then President and CEO of Cargill Dow Randy Howard.A bounty of options for biopolymers
On April 2, 2002, Cargill Dow, LLC, now NatureWorks, LLC, celebrated the grand opening of its Blair, NE, plant for the manufacture of polylactic acid (PLA) corn-based biopolymer. It was the first global-scale manufacturing plant capable of making commercial-grade plastic from annually renewable resources and was heralded as "a second industrial revolution" by then President and CEO of Cargill Dow Randy Howard.
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