Table 2 Different types of polyesters and their producers [12–15, 17–19]
Polyester
General name
Chemical structure and full name
Commercial name
(manufacturers)
Agro-based
resources
PLA
Polylactic acid
• PLA (Galactic,
Belgium)
• CPLA (Dainippon
Ink Chem., Japan)
• NatureWorks
(Cargill Dow LLC,
USA)
• Lacea (Mitsui
Chemicals, Japan)
PHA PHB
• Biopol
(MonsantoMetabolix, USA)
• BioCycle
(Copersucar, Brazil)
PHBV
PHBHHx
• Nodax (Procter
& Gamble, USA)
PHBO
PHBOd
Fossil-based
(petroleum
resources)
PCL
• CAPA (Solvay,
Belgium)
• Tone (Union
Carbide, USA)
• Celgreen
(Daicel, Japan)
PEA
• BAK (Bayer,
Germany)
Aliphatic
co-polyesters
PBSA
• Bionolle (Showa
Highpolymer, Japan)
• Skygreen (SK
Chemicals, Korea)
• EnPol (Ire
Chemical Ltd.,
Korea)
• Lunare SE
(Nippon Shokubai,
Japan)
Aromatic
co-polyesters
PBAT
• Ecoflex (BASF,
Germany)
• PHEE (Dow
Chemicals, USA)
• Biomax
(DuPont, USA)
• Eastar Bio
(Eastman Chemical,
USA)