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- Issue 01 | 2022
PHBH foam products
KANEKA Biodegradable Polymer Green Planet Molded Foam products adopted for fish boxes - Issue 01 | 2022
Mattress recycling now a reality
Dow Polyurethanes, a business division of Dow (Midland, Michigan, USA), and Orrion Chemicals Orgaform (Semoy, France) together with Eco-mobilier (Paris, France), H&S Anlagentechnik (Sulingen, ... - Issue 01 | 2021
Biobased open-cell PU foam
Achieving sustainability in product design can be challenging when not all biobased materials and sustainable plastic product development processes are created equal. Manufacturers should not have to ... - Issue 01 | 2021
Bio-foams made of modified polylactide
Polymeric foams are widely used in applications such as cushioning, packaging, and insulation, due to their unique energy absorption behaviour and good thermal or acoustic insulation properties. They ... - Issue 01 | 2021
Biobased foam packaging
Lifoam Industries (Greenville, South Carolina, USA), a business segment and subsidiary of LifeMade Products, has been awarded multiple patents for making and molding an entirely new type of biobased ... - Issue 01 | 2021
A new material made from plants and air
Strong and flexible foam sheets of biomass plastic for a zero-carbon, circular economy - Issue | 2021
Closing the circle
A 100% plant-based non-isocyanate polyurethane foam capable of chemical recycling - Issue 01 | 2021
PLA in cold chain transportation
Incubators are widely used in cold chain transportation, especially in today’s life of highly developed e-commerce and direct supply of fresh products. How to deliver fresh foods to consumers has ... - Issue 01 | 2019
PLA foam sheet for tableware
A famous Chinese entrepreneur once said: Even a pig can fly if it stands at the center of a storm. But the storm that bioplastics needed to take flight did not arrive in China, or, for that matter, ... - Issue 01 | 2019
New infill material for artificial turf
Increased demands for high-quality playing fields for sport and soccer, and more intense competition for playing space, have resulted in a new generation of synthetic grass fields: with the same ... - Issue 01 | 2018
CO2 based foam
“The chemical industry has long known that we need an alternative to petroleum that offers both economic and environmental benefits,” says Dr. Markus Steilemann, Covestro Board Member responsible for ... - Issue 01 | 2018
Microwave-resistant sustainable packaging
The consumption habits of our society mark the current trend of food packaging. Aspects such as food safety associated to the growing variety of processed food with demanding conservation ... - Issue 01 | 2017
New compostable particle foam
BASF presents ecovio® EA with high bio-based content for packaging solutions - Issue 01 | 2017
PLA based particle foam
The first CO2 neutral foam in the world with Cradle to Cradle certification. - Issue 01 | 2017
The biodegradable foam market in China
Although biodegradable plastics first appeared on the market over 15 years ago, these plastics still only have a share of less than 1 % of the total plastics market. The reality is that the cost of ... - Issue 01 | 2017
Starch based particle foam for biodegradable packaging
Thanks to a new processing technique, foamable particles that are based on renewable resources can be processed into individual molded parts, e. g. for utilization as packaging material. Subsequent ... - Issue 01 | 2016
PLA foam expanding into new areas
The Biopolymer Network Limited (BPN) team from Rotorua, New Zealand, who developed Zealafoam®, a PLA based alternative to expanded polystyrene (EPS), continues to develop new opportunities for ... - Issue 04 | 2015
Foams made from modified standard PLA
Nowadays, polymer foams are widely used because the cellular structure leads to a low thermal conductivity and specific impact resistance, which are necessary for applications such as insulation or ... - Issue 04 | 2015
Sandwich panel from wood and bioplastics
Wood is a sought-after raw material for energy generation as well as for material utilization. - Issue 04 | 2015
Foamed blocks from NF-reinforced starch Biodegradable foamed blocks based on starch reinforced with natural fillers and produced using microwave radiation.
Making materials lighter is one of the main challenges of society today because it involves cutting down on the use of raw materials, reducing fuel consumption in vehicles and increasing the thermal ... - Issue 01 | 2015
Transport trays for tubes made of BioFoam
Alabastine (an AkzoNobel subsidiary from Ammerzoden, The Netherlands) is the first company in the Netherlands to start using Synprodo bv’s BioFoam® material for its transport trays. - Issue 01 | 2014
Mushroom packaging
About a year and a half ago Sealed Air Corporation (Elmwood Park, New Jersey, USA) and Ecovative Design LLC (Green Island, New York) completed an agreement about the production, sales and ... - Issue 01 | 2014
Foam grade PBAT
Jinhui ZhaoLong High Tech Co.Ltd is located at Shanxi Province, China with an annual PBAT (polybutylene adipate-co-terephthalate) production capacity of 20,000 tonnes. - Issue 01 | 2013
Bioplastic substrates in horticulture and agriculture
Expanded PLA enables the production of sustainable substrates for agricultural produce, plants, trees and shrubs - Issue 01 | 2013
Alginsulate foam
Brown algae (seaweed), which are rapidly self-regenerative and which exist in unlimited quantities are conceivable as a raw material for many different products. - Issue 01 | 2013
High temperature resistant PLA foams
Scientists based at Crown Research Institute Scion in New Zealand have developed PLA foams with high dimensional stability at elevated temperatures. The research was led by Jean-Phillippe Garancher ... - Issue 01 | 2013
Durable and eco-friendly foams
The use of bioplastics for the production of flexible and semi-rigid foams is still today very limited. However these foams have extremely diverse applications when they are produced from oil-based ... - Issue 01 | 2012
PHBV foams and its engineered composites
In the past few years, extensive research on biobased and biodegradable polymers has led to a better understanding of their properties and morphologies, as well as their structure–property ...