Business View Magazine | March 2018

111 cardboard andwood chips tomake components for plastic,”saysMisek-Evans.“Theyare nowgraduating from labs to their first commercial facility to be located in Sarnia at one of the private business parks in the City’s south end.” TheOrigin site is just west of the two-year-old,$141 million BioAmber plant that manufactures 66,000,000 pounds of succinic acid per year,a chemical used to make plastics,lubricants,paint,cosmetics,food addi- tives,and other products.“Up until BioAmber’s new technology to produce it frombio-basedmaterials, succinic acid has traditionallybeen petroleum-based, produced by the petro-chemical industry,”Misek-Evans explains.“So,this has been a real advancement in tech- nology.It’s got its first big plant here in Sarnia.” Other companies that have set up shop in Sarnia include COMET,which is designing a sugar mill for 80,000 tons of corn stover supplied fromLambton county farmers through the Cellulosic Sugar Producers Cooperative.Themill will be built at the Bluewater EnergyParkand be operational by2019/20. Woodland Biofuels Inc.,a Canadian biotech startup companypro- ducing ethanol and high value products fromwaste biomass,constructed a demonstration plant at the Western Sarnia-Lambton Research Park in 2012.From