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- Issue 06 | 2021
Carbon-neutral toothbrush
GSK Consumer Healthcare (Brentford, UK), the world-leading consumer healthcare business, whose brands include Sensodyne, parodontax, Voltaren, and Advil, is contributing to raising sustainability ... - Issue 04 | 2021
Plant protection made by competi tive 3D printing
Biofibre is a mid-sized compounder for biopolymers and biocomposites based near Munich in Germany. The company produces customised bioplastic compounds for different applications and processing ... - Issue 03 | 2021
Cleaner turf production with biobased biodegradable nets
The use of plastic nets is common in the grass industry. The big advantage for producers is that turf can be harvested faster this way. “The nets facilitate transport and reduce the risk of damaging ... - Issue 02 | 2021
Frustration fuelled innovation
Innovation can come from various places and sometimes it’s as simple as the question “This should be a thing, why is it not a thing?” This is exactly what Rachel Domb, a second-year psychology ... - Issue 06 | 2020
Sparkling water maker
UPM Biocomposites (Lahti, Finland) and Mysoda (Helsinki, Finland) have collaborated to create a range of sparkling water makers made almost entirely out of renewable materials. Traditionally, small ... - Issue 06 | 2020
Lighting applications based on renewable feedstock
SABIC (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia), a global leader in the chemical industry, recently announced its partnership with Elkamet Kunststofftechnik (Biedenkopf, Germany), an industry leader in the plastics ... - Issue 06 | 2020
Shoes made from sustainable materials
A ccording to the UNEP [1], the fashion industry makes up for 10 % of global greenhouse gas emissions - more than international flights and shipping combined. Many footwear producers all around the ... - Issue 05 | 2020
Consistent sustainability for all case users
W.AG (Geisa, Germany) has accomplished a milestone in the field of case production. After the successful completion of a development project lasting almost two years, the company is now in a position ... - Issue 04 | 2020
New cellulosic, highly functional bioplastic
Does it help to solve environmental issues such as marine plastic waste? - Issue 01 | 2020
Biodegradable Denim
Candiani, a family-owned sustainable denim mill from Robecchetto con Induno, Italy announced last November that it has launched the world’s first biodegradable stretch denim, after years of research ... - Issue 03 | 2019
This spoon does the rest!
Whether yoghurt cups or jam jars, peanut butter, chocolate cream, bottled baby food or other packaged pasty food: significant residual quantities remain in all the containers of these products even ... - Issue 02 | 2019
Eco Spacer for precast concrete products
In the concrete industry, very considerable amounts of plastic pellets are used in the transport of the different products (e.g., when stacking concrete floor slabs or paving stones). The granules ... - Issue 02 | 2019
Multiwall sheet applications
E xotic fruits, flowers, fish – there is a broad selection of these in our supermarkets. For this variety, fresh food has to be transported safely over long distances. Transport boxes made of ... - Issue 02 | 2019
Arla’s wood-based beverage cartons
Arla (Söderkulla, Finland) wants to provide consumers with new opportunities to choose more responsible products. This year, Arla has been the first company in Finland to use renewable wood-based ... - Issue 02 | 2019
Biobased reusable cutlery
This year’s BIOFACH trade fair in Nuremberg, Germany saw the debut of the new, biobased and biodegradable reusable cutlery produced by Bremen, Germany-headquartered company Bionatic. The products are ... - Issue 01 | 2019
Bioplastics in the electronics sector
In the next few years the development of new electronic products will be based more and more on eco-sustainable organic materials such as bioplastic, which will allow to realize extremely innovative ... - Issue 01 | 2019
Green turf technology for the 2020 Olympic Games
In 2016 the International Hockey Federation (FIH) announced a partnership with SportGroup Holding and its leading brand, Polytan (both from Burgheim Germany), as World Cup and Olympic Partner and ... - Issue 01 | 2019
PLA solution for soil engineering
Prefabricated Vertical Drains, commonly known as PVDs, are installed at construction sites as a ground treatment solution to consolidate the ground, hardening the soil to support civil construction. - Issue 06 | 2018
PLA in the fridge
Electrolux builds the world’s first bioplastic concept refrigerator - Issue 04 | 2018
Natural fibres for motorsports
Bcomp’s high performance renewable fibres vs. standard carbon fiber layup for motorsports - Issue 06 | 2017
Race Tesla with bio-composites
Electric GT and Bcomp reveal lightweight renewable natural fibre composite body panels and tease “secret weapon” LED display - Issue 06 | 2017
Hot compost bin
The hot compost bin was originally pioneered by DS Smith in the UK. It is made of EPP, a sturdy and insulating material that works much better than the poorly insulating PE used for conventional, ...