Myriant Corporation, a global renewable chemicals company based in the United States, announced today that it has signed a distribution agreement with Hamburg, Germany-based BCD Chemie, one of the major European chemical distributors. BCD Chemie will market and distribute Myriant's bio-succinic acid and Myrifilm solvent in Austria, Germany and Switzerland.

Globally, the annual worldwide market for succinic acid is estimated at approximately $7.5 billion in existing and new applications, in the field of polymers, urethanes, plasticizers and coatings.