B reak free of the design and performance constraints of aluminium and steel. Next generation (partly biobased) plastics can provide the perfect solution for personal care and household products.
Gantri (San Francisco, California USA) introduces Gantri Plant Polymers, the world’s first plant-derived polylactic acid (PLA) blends engineered specifically for premium lighting products. ...
Stora Enso (headquartered in Helsinki, Finland) will build a pilot facility for producing Cellufoam™ by Stora Enso, a lightweight, highly porous foam material from cellulose fibers, for protective ...
German based Covestro is introducing a new polycarbonate film with more than 50 % of its carbon content sourced from plant-based biomass. Makrofol EC is the first partially biobased film in the ...
Cambium Biomaterials, California, USA, just became the first company to field test a novel biobased fire-resistance product in a fire-in-flight demonstration. Cambium and the US Naval Air Warfare ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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