Bridgestone Americas, a subsidiary of Bridgestone in Japan, will use a federal grant to develop a pilot plant to research making butadiene, a component of synthetic rubber, out of ethanol.
Published: Oct. 31, 2024, 12:56 p.m.is produced from corn in the United States, but also from sugar cane in Brazil.
The industry has known how to make butadiene from ethanol for 80 years, Smale said, but the challenge is doing it economically. The plan is to know within three years whether butadiene made from ethanol is commercially viable for use in tires and what affect it has on the company’s carbon footprint. The pilot plant will use a “catalyst system” first developed by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory to convert the ethanol to butadiene.
Butadiene is used in other products, such as plastic for durable goods, including Lego blocks, Smale said.
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