Verdezyne, Inc., a synthetic biology company producing biobased chemicals, and Connell Bros. Co. LLC (CBC), the largest marketer and distributor of specialty chemicals in the Asia-Pacific region, announced an agreement for sales and distribution of Verdezyne’s BIOLON DDDA (biobased dodecanedioic acid or “DC12”).

BIOLON DDDA will be produced at Verdezyne’s commercial-scale plant in Malaysia and will be distributed in 17 countries throughout Asia-Pacific, including China, Japan and South Korea. The agreement assures CBC of access to more than 10 percent of the expected plant capacity.

Verdezyne’s BIOLON DDDA is produced more sustainably than traditional petroleum-derived intermediate chemicals and will be used to make a variety of end-user products including automotive parts, toothbrush bristles, cosmetics, and fragrances.

Verdezyne’s plant, expected to be completed in 2017, is anticipated to have the capacity to produce up to 9,000 metric tons of diacids including BIOLON(TM) DDDA annually.