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- Issue 03 | 2020
PHAs in “The Circular Economy”: Denitrification
I n Part 1 of the White Paper Series “Preventing pollution with PHA” the Global Organization for PHA - GO!PHA touched upon the size and scope of Plastics Pollution and how PHA plays a role in ... - Issue 02 | 2020
Taking sustainability one big step further
Home-compostable coffee capsules made of renewable resources - Issue 02 | 2020
New collaboration on high- performance PLA compounds
T he additives business of Clariant (Muttenz, Switzerland) and Floreon-Transforming Packaging Limited (Sheffield, UK) recently announced an exciting new collaboration to further extend the ... - Issue 02 | 2020
Bioplastic to help reduce food spoilage
In a world focused on promoting resource efficiency, food waste has emerged as one of our most pressing challenges. According to The Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) approximately one-third ... - Issue 02 | 2020
Biobased epoxy resins
Sicomin, Marseille, France, the leading formulator and supplier of high-performance, biobased epoxy resin systems will launch a couple of new bio-resins at JEC World 2020 (Hall 6, Booth G43) in Paris ... - Issue 02 | 2020
Wood-based plastic from Finland
Forest-rich Finland has produced many innovations based on wood biomass. Now a novel wood-based bioplastic material has been developed by the Finnish technology company Woodly (Espoo, Finlad). The ... - Issue 01 | 2020
Milestone in Nylon sustainability
World’s first tonne of renewable nylon 6 intermediate - Issue 04 | 2019
Coated paper cups made home-compostable
Paper cups are one of the most popular single use food contact application and they are always mistreated when disposed. Most people do not know that there are polymer liners inside these cups and ... - Issue 03 | 2019
Novel biobased barrier films
According to recent forecasts by European Bioplastics and nova Institute, global production of biopolymers will increase from about 2.05 million tonnes in 2017 to 2.44 million tonnes in 2022. The ... - Issue 03 | 2019
Pack it in feathers
pluumo – The world’s first feather-based, sustainable packaging material - Issue 02 | 2019
First plant-based pouches with BOPEF film
Resulting from an application demonstration project with various collaboration partners, Avantium’s business unit Synvina (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) has produced the first plant-based pouches using ... - Issue 02 | 2019
Advances in the development of dandelion rubber
T he LFL Bavarian State Research Centre for Agriculture (Freising, Germany), HOLMER Maschinenbau (Schierling, Germany) and the tyre manufacturer Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH are jointly ... - Issue 01 | 2019
Low-cost cellulosic sugars for bioplastics production
In the shift towards a sustainable biobased economy, the production of bioplastics requires a low-cost, high-quality source of sugars. With growing interest in non-food sugars for biobased ... - Issue 01 | 2019
Enzymatic masterbatch to make PLA home compostable
C arbiolice took the stage last December at the European Bioplastics Conference in Berlin to launch its innovative and unique enzymated Evanesto® masterbatch – an additive that enables PLA to ... - Issue 06 | 2018
Modified Calcium Carbonate opens new opportunities for the use of PLA
P olylactic Acid (PLA) is one of the fastest growing biobased polymers on the market. Processors have tried to use Calcium Carbonate to improve properties and the cost structure, as is common in ... - Issue 04 | 2018
Multilayer transparent barrierfilms
Four key players in the bioplastics industry - Eurotech Extrusion Machinery, NatureWorks, Nippon Gohsei and Sukano - have successfully processed a multilayer transparent biobased barrier film. This ... - Issue 04 | 2018
New compound certified as biodegradable in soil
The injection moulding material M·VERA® GP1012 by BIO-FED, Cologne, Germany, a branch of AKRO-PLASTIC GmbH, Hamburg, Germany), has been tested by TÜV AUSTRIA Belgium and has been awarded the OK ... - Issue 04 | 2018
New biocomposite for thermally formable products
VTT, Espoo, Finland, has developed a thermally formable, biodegradable material, which is 100 % biobased. Its suitability for applications such as furniture makes it an attractive alternative to wood ... - Issue 03 | 2018
Thermoplastic starch from the heart of Europe
The need for green ingredients in bioplastics is becoming an important topic. Efficient resource management that addresses renewable materials and waste recovery is a crucial future step towards a ... - Issue 03 | 2018
Sun protection cosmetics made with PHB bioplastic
Bio-on (Bologna, Italy), recently presented a brand-new line of cosmetic ingredients for sun protection made from its 100% natural and biodegradable PHB bioplastic. The new products are part of the ... - Issue 02 | 2018
The virtues and challenges of the PHA-platform
About 10 years ago the first products of the PHA-platform have been introduced to the plastics market. The initial products were P3HB, P3HB4HB copolymers and PHBV copolymers. These initial ... - Issue 02 | 2018
Green plastic made of milk protein
Lactips, based in Saint-Jean-Bonnefonds, France, is a young company focussed on the design, development and manufacture of an eco-friendly plastic raw material made of milk protein. The new, ... - Issue 06 | 2017
Biobased adhesives: Requirements and perspective
Biobased adhesives literally constitute an ancient material class. Already 200.000 years ago Neanderthals identified birch pitch as valuable adhesive material, which can be obtained from the bark via ... - Issue 04 | 2017
Flexible laminates
BioPBS offers sealing solution for home compostable flexible packaging - Issue 04 | 2017
Limonene based polycarbonate
A by-product of the juice industry can replace BPA in polycarbonate - Issue 04 | 2017
Biobased aniline for Polyurethanes
Covestro (Leverkusen, Germany) has scored a research breakthrough for the use of plant-based raw materials in plastics production: aniline, an important basic chemical, can now be derived from ... - Issue 04 | 2017
New additive grades US-FDA approved
Perstorp (Malmö, Sweden) has acquired food contact use approval for its Capa™ for Bioplastics product grades 6500D and the new 6800D. By adding Capa 6800D to its product portfolio, Perstorp can now ...