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Braskem and Acinplas just a close partnership for the provision of green polyethylene from 100% renewable origin. The resin is used in the manufacture of plastic films, which will be transformed into a licensed product under the name Unisold System ®, used by companies run by Acinplas - Suzuki, Koba, Plasa, and Tashiro Voti & Takata. This system helps the consumer in the purchase of fruit and vegetable sector frutihortícola of the major supermarkets in Brazil and Europe, providing perforated bags to put up with convenience foods, health and strength.

The partnership was made possible thanks to the goal of sustainable business practices, particularly with regard to the environment because the consumer market increasingly demands products produced by environmentally correct and socially and environmentally responsible.

Recently, Braskem announced the laying of the cornerstone of the plant to produce green polyethylene in Rio Grande do Sul The event symbolized the start of construction of the first unit of the industrial world to use ethanol from sugarcane for the production commercial-scale ethylene and polyethylene from 100% renewable origin.

The total investment of approximately R $ 500 million. The project envisages the construction of an ethylene plant, raw material for polyethylene from ethanol. The unit will have capacity to produce 200 thousand tons / year of ethylene, which will be transformed into equivalent volume of polyethylene in existing industrial units in the same Polo de Triomphe. The launch of the new plant is scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2010 and the start of commercial operation in early 2011