The corn industry produces almost 4,000 products from every
bushel. Oil refineries produce fuels and ingredients for an estimated 6,000
products with a thoroughness that actually squeezes 44 gallons of products from
every 42-gallon barrel of crude.
Scientists today unveiled new technology intended to move
soybeans, second only to corn as the top food crop in the U.S., along that same
use-to-all path as a raw material for a wider portfolio of products. They
described it ― a new integrated soybean biorefinery ― at the 244th National
Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society, the world’s largest
scientific society, being held here through Thursday.
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