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- Issue 04 | 2013
New partner joins PEF bottle development
Avantium (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) and ALPLA Werke Alwin Lehner GmbH (headquartered in Hard, Austria), agreed to cooperate on the development of PEF bottles. After Coca-Cola and Danone, Alpla is ... - Issue 04 | 2013
Bottles made from Bio-Polyethylene
Bio-Polyethylene (or bio-PE) was introduced under the brand name Green PE and first produced on a commercial scale in September 2010 by the Brazilian company Braskem. Bio-PE is derived from ... - Issue 04 | 2013
Coke‘s bio-PET is expanding
Coca-Cola’s PlantBottle™ (a partly bio-based PET bottle), launched in 2009, is now available in 25 countries. With about 15 billion units it made up about 8% of Coke’s PET bottles in 2012. Just ... - Issue 04 | 2013
Bioplastic bottles from plant starch
PSM® bioplastics by Wuhan Huali Environmental Technology, from Wuhan China is a new material made from plant starch which can be used for film blowing, blow-moulding, injection-moulding, ... - Issue 04 | 2012
Caps & Closures from bio resources
KISICO Verpackungstechnik GmbH of Oestrich-Winkel in Germany has been observing the development of the bioplastics market for many years. At an early date they began developing caps made from ... - Issue 04 | 2011
Ketchup in Biobased PET
H.J. Heinz Company, headquartered in Pittsburg; Pennsylvania, USA, one of the world’s leading marketers and producers of ketchup and much more recently announced a strategic partnership (an ... - Issue 04 | 2011
Completing the Puzzle: 100% Plant-Derived PET
The interest in bio-based plastics falls into two main areas – sustainability and economics, and there is significant overlap between these areas. - Issue 05 | 2008
Australia’s First Natural Spring Water in PLA Bottles
Cool Change Natural Spring Water from Australia is owned by the Paterson Family, Helen, James and Richard. Cool Change was set up in March 2008 to launch the NatureWorks IngeoTM PLA bottled water ... - Issue 05 | 2008
Bio-Bottle Meets Private Label Water
Two complementing niches in a fast growing market - Issue 05 | 2008
Not only Celebrities like New Zealand’s PLA-bottled “Good Water”
It may be one of the little guys competing against the larger players but as it celebrates its first birthday The Good Water Company has found over the past year a number of high profile people have ... - Issue 05 | 2008
Primo Water offer Mineral Enriched Water in PLA bottles
Primo Water Corporation, a privately-held company based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA manufactures mineral enriched bottled water. According to a recently published press release Primo is the ... - Issue 05 | 2008
Pure, Light, Mountain Water – Bottled in Ingeo™
Italian mineral water company Fonti di Vinadio Spa, which bottles and sells Sant’Anna di Vinadio mineral water is located in the North-Italian Piedmont area. Just recently they introduced their water ... - Issue 05 | 2008
Impact of Dry and Wet Sterilisation on PLA Bottles
If aseptic cold filling is required to ensure the quality and shelf life of juice, ice tea, dairy products or flavoured water the impact of either dry or wet sterilisation on the container prior to ... - Issue 05 | 2008
Closures made from Bioplastics
Motivation: In 2000 there were 180 million tonnes of plastic used worldwide. For 2010 the forecast is for a demand of 260 million tonnes. The packaging industry requires about 25% of the plastic that ... - Issue 05 | 2008
“EcoSield” PLA Bottles
Today it is widely accepted that the reduction of carbon dioxide emissions is a very important factor in the prevention of global warming. Therefore Toyo Seikan Kaisha, Ltd. from Yokohama, Japan, ... - Issue 04 | 2009
PLA Bottles - Recyclable and Compostable
Among the increasing number of companies offering their products in PLA bottles is the privately held Primo Water Corporation, headquartered in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA. bioplastics ... - Issue 04 | 2009
Coca-Cola Biobottle Uses Biobased Ethylene Glycol
In the last issue bioplastics MAGZINE reported about the planned launch of Coca-Cola‘s PlantBottle™. This new plastic bottle will be made partially (up to 30%) from plants. As promised this issue ... - Issue 04 | 2009
Green Bottles™ at Capitol Hill
The first decade of the 21st century has witnessed a steady growth and evolution in consumer interest in products with demonstrated ‘green‘ benefits. - Issue 04 | 2009
Extrusion Blow Moulding of Bioplastics
Besides films and bags, rigid packaging such as trays or clamshells, and bottles, are all part of the huge range of packaging applications where bioplastics are increasingly being used. - Issue 04 | 2009
Using Near-Infrared Sorting to Recycle PLA Bottles
In the last several years, new plastic bottles made from renewably resourced Ingeo™ (polylactic acid) PLA have entered the market. Brand-owner and retailer demand for such bottles continues to be ... - Issue 04 | 2009
NAPCOR Bans Degradable Additives
The (US) National Association for PET Container Resources (NAPCOR) recently urged restraint in the use of degradable additives in PET packaging. - Issue 03 | 2010
PLA Beverage Bottle Presented in Austria
The Austrian pioneer company NaKu (from Natürlicher Kunststoff = natural plastic) has offered starch based bags for fresh produce since 2007. Now they arranged for fresh moments at the VIENNA ... - Issue 04 | 2010
Beyond Sustainability - Ethical Packaging in New Zealand
Recent revelations in the New Zealand media about the fate of consumer recycling have raised concerns about all the packaging material used in consumer products. - Issue 04 | 2010
PHA Bioplastics for Caps and Closures
In today’s increasingly green marketplace, bioplastics can provide a strategic market advantage to brand owners by combining the environmental benefits of bioplastics (in this case, PHA) with the ... - Issue 04 | 2010
Cosmetic Bottles
Bormioli Rocco, from Italy, a leading European supplier of glass and plastic bottles for the pharmaceutical, cosmetic, and food industries, has been steadily gaining expertise with its Ingeo™ PLA bio ... - Issue 04 | 2010
Continued Success for Sant‘Anna Bio-Bottle
Sant’Anna di Vinadio mineral water from the Italian mineral water company Fonti di Vinadio Spa, has now been available in Ingeo™ PLA bottles for about two years now. - Issue 04 | 2010
The Ritz-Carlton goes Prima
Prima™ Water - wait a minute - bioplastics MAGAZINE reported about Primo Water from Winston-Salem, North Carolina in 2008 and 2009 … but Prima?