Coca-Cola partners with Liquid Light to produce PlantBottle

Posted on 29 Jul 2015 by Michael Cruickshank

Beverage producer The Coca-Cola Company has announced a partnership with New Jersey company Liquid Light to help produce the company’s first 100% plant-based PET bottle.

The small chemicals startup, specialising in low energy catalytic electrochemistry, will help produce precursor chemicals for these bottles. In an agreement signed between the two companies, a pledge was made to accelerate the development of Liquid Light’s technology which synthesises mono-ethylene glycol(MEG) from carbon dioxide. Coca-Cola is interested in Liquid Light’s technology as it allows…

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