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- Issue 05 | 2019
Sicomin launches new bio epoxy-resin
As the automotive industry focuses on more sustainable manufacturing, Sicomin, the leading supplier of eco-resins, has announced a replacement for petroleum based materials with the launch of its new ... - Issue 04 | 2019
CB² adds North Dakota State University Site
North Dakota State University has been awarded a National Science Foundation grant to become a university site of the Center for Bioplastics and Biocomposites (CB2). The CB2 Center is part of NSF’s ... - Issue 04 | 2019
Bio-on under attack
Bio-on SpA, (Bologna, Italy) listed in the AIM segment on the Italian Stock Exchange and active in the highquality biopolymers market, declared on July 24th, that it totally denies the assertions ... - Issue 04 | 2019
Low-cost Production of PHA in Camelina
Yield10 Bioscience, Woburn, Massachussetts, USA, an agricultural bioscience company that uses its “Trait Factory” to develop high value seed traits for the agriculture and food industries, recently ... - Issue 04 | 2019
No biowaste to landfill
The Committee on Climate Change (CCC) asks the UK to bring forward a ban on biodegradable waste to landfill to 2025 after a new report published by the Committee revealed the UK to be ‘lagging far ... - Issue 04 | 2019
Sucessful webinar
On March 14, 2019 the American Chemical Society (ACS) broadcasted a live webinar with Ramani Narayan (Michigan State University) on the topic: "Is Biodegradability a Solution to Plastic ... - Issue 04 | 2019
Neste and LyondellBasell start commercial-scale production
Neste, Helsinki, Finland, the world’s largest producer of renewable diesel from waste and residues, and LyondellBasell, headquartered in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, one of the largest plastics, ... - Issue 04 | 2019
Novamont’s Mater-Bi confirmed to be marine biodegradable
Studies commissioned by Italian bioplastics manufacturer Novamont have demonstrated that the Mater-Bi family of materials produced by the company will biodegrade in the marine environment. - Issue 04 | 2019
French President Emmanuel Macron promotes bioplastics
VivaTech is the world’s rendezvous for startups and leaders to celebrate innovation. It’s a gathering of the world’s brightest minds, talents, and products taking place in Paris. - Issue 03 | 2019
BASF and Lactips partner to market water-soluble, biodegradable film
BASF and Lactips announced in mid-May that both companies have signed an exclusive contract to market Lactips’ water-soluble, 100% biobased and fully biodegradable material prepared from natural ... - Issue 03 | 2019
DowDuPont Inc. selling out on sustainability?
During a May 2 conference call, DowDuPont said it is moving six units into a new non-core segment as it considers options, including divestment. - Issue 03 | 2019
ERRATUM (Issue 02/2019) Heat Resistant and home compostable PLA resins
In the last issue bioplastics MAGAZINE published an article about Kompuestos' "Heat Resistant and home compostable PLA resins". We sincerely apologize for an error that occured in ... - Issue 03 | 2019
From cigars to PLA-films
Founded at the end of the 19th century as cigar manufactory the company shifted from cigars to plastics film packaging in the 1970s and became arbo Plastic, a Swiss pioneer company to offer ... - Issue 03 | 2019
Arkema selects Singapore as new Rilsan production site
In early May, Arkema, headquartered in Colombes, France, announced the location of its planned new world-scale plant for the production of the monomer of PA11 - 11-Aminoundecanoic acid, derived from ... - Issue 03 | 2019
Kaneka Americas Holding, to create new biopolymers division
Kaneka Americas Holding, Inc. headquartered in Houston, Texas, recently announced the creation of a new biopolymers division, for the sale of Kaneka’s plant-based degradable plastic PHBH compounds in ... - Issue 03 | 2019
DIN CERTCO cooperates with Scion from New Zealand
DIN CERTCO (Berlin, Germany) is now starting a new cooperation with Scion (Rotorua, New Zealand) for the testing of compostable products. - Issue 02 | 2019
NatureWorks announces 100 % third-party certified sustainable feedstock by 2020
A new initiative at NatureWorks (Minnetonka, Minnessota, USA) will ensure that by 2020 100 % of the agricultural feedstock for Ingeo™ PLA biopolymers and Vercet™ performance chemicals will be ... - Issue 02 | 2019
Biome Bioplastics and Futamura partner on development of compostable multilayer packaging
Biome Bioplastics (Southampton, UK) and Futamura (Wigton, Cumbria, UK) have partnered on the development of a range of bio-based and compostable multilayer films. The materials offer competitive ... - Issue 02 | 2019
New study assesses the environmental impact of innovative biobased products
The European Union has published a new study entitled “Environmental impact assessments of innovative biobased products” which aims to provide science-based facts and evidence on the environmental ... - Issue 02 | 2019
Braskem and Haldor Topsoe: biobased MEG
Braskem and Haldor Topsoe announced today that they have reached mechanical completion of the MOSAIK™ process step of their demonstration plant that will produce bio-based monoethylene glycol - MEG - ... - Issue 02 | 2019
Virent & partners: biobased paraxylene
BP, Virent Inc. and Johnson Matthey (JM) have signed an agreement that will further advance the commercialisation of Virent’s Bioforming® process for production of bio-paraxylene (PX), a key raw ... - Issue 02 | 2019
DSM and Roquette to dissolve Reverdia, reframe relationship
DSM and Roquette are taking the next step in biobased succinic acid, as the companies recently announced. - Issue 02 | 2019
Anellotech & partners: biobased paraxylene
U.S. sustainable technology company Anellotech (Pearl River, New York and its joint development partners IFPEN and Axens have processed renewably-sourced aromatics made at Anellotech’s TCat- 8® ... - Issue 02 | 2019
Aimplas official test site for TÜV Austria
Companies seeking to gain OK Compost Industrial, OK Compost Home, OK Biodegradable Soil and Seedling certification and labels can now turn to the laboratories of research institute AIMPLAS (Paterna, ... - Issue 01 | 2019
Researchers at Tel Aviv University produce PHA with the help of algae
A new Tel Aviv University study describes a process to make bioplastic polymers that require neither land or fresh water — resources that are scarce in much of the world. The polymer is derived from ... - Issue 01 | 2019
BASF pulls out of Synvina
BASF has notified Avantium of its exit from their Synvina joint venture, effective 15 January 2019. Avantium continues to disagree with BASF’s interpretation of the joint venture agreement. Avantium ... - Issue 01 | 2019
Production of PHA bioplastics in Spain
Bio-on (Bologna (Italy) and Sociedad Cooperativa General Agropecuaria, a Castilian-Leon cooperative which produces and markets sugar, food oils, biodiesel, various products for food animal and ... - Issue 01 | 2019
Sulapac welcomes Chanel as an investor
Finland-based Sulapac, announced that it has successfully attracted its first investor from the cosmetics industry. Sulapac products use a biodegradable and microplastic-free material made of ...