Engineering Biopolymers

General conditions, market situation, production, structure and properties
Hans-Josef Endres, Andrea Siebert-Raths

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The new book offers a broad basis of information from a plastics processing point of view. This includes comprehensive descriptions of the biopolymer market, the different materials and suppliers as well as production-, processing-, usage- and disposal properties for all commercially available biopolymers. The unique book represents an important and comprehensive source of information and a knowledge base for researchers, developers, technicians, engineers, marketing, management and other decision-makers. It is a must-have in all areas of applications for raw material suppliers, manufacturers of plastics and additives, converters and film producers, for machine manufacturers, packaging suppliers, the automotive industry, the fiber/nonwoven/ textile industry as well as universities.

• Definition of biopolymers
  
• Materials classes
• Production routes and polymerization
• processes of biopolymers
• Structure
• Comprehensive technical properties
• Comparison of property profiles of biopolymers with those of conventional plastics
• Disposal options
• Data about sustainability and eco-balance
• Important legal framwork
• Testing standards
• Market players
• Trade names
• Suppliers
• Prices
• Current availabilities and future prospects
• Current application examples
• Future market development