Greening: Elevance and Tetramer team for renewable chemicals

) are partnering to develop and commercialize renewable specialty chemicals, with some relevant findings already in renewable wax structures. Elevance (Lisle, IL) utilizes Nobel Prize winning olefin metathesis technology to create a range of specialty chemicals from natural oils. Tetramer (Pendleton, SC) formed in 2001 to commercialize research pursued at Clemson University, looking specifically at specialty polymeric or oligomeric materials.