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In order to introduce a new product into an existing market it is not enough to have an interesting product, one also has to have a process to produce it at competitive costs. This holds also for biodegradable plastics. If such plastics have to be successful in the market the production processes and the costs for producing them have to be carefully evaluated. I am going to focus on this aspect and to present the results of our experiments aimed at producing polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB) at competitive costs.
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Hänggi, U.J. (1990). Pilot scale production of PHB with Alcaligenes latus. In: Dawes, E.A. (eds) Novel Biodegradable Microbial Polymers. NATO ASI Series, vol 186. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2129-0_6
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