BioAmber Inc. announced the opening of its BioAmber Sarnia plant that was jointly built with Mitsui & Co. Ltd. BioAmber Sarnia makes renewable chemicals from sugar instead of petroleum. The new plant uses innovative biotechnology and will produce biobased succinic acid from glucose sourced from southern Ontario agricultural suppliers.

The BioAmber Sarnia plant is the world's succinic acid production facility and will be globally competitive while making chemicals more sustainably.