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- Issue 03 | 2021
Microplastic: solving the problem without harming our planet
Acoustic and thermal characterization of a novel sustainable material incorporating recycled microplastic waste - Issue 03 | 2021
Smart wood foam
Edible shock- and heat-resistant wood foam could replace plastic packaging - Issue 03 | 2021
PLA for large format 3D printing
NatureWorks (Minnetonka, MN, USA) continues to grow its portfolio of Ingeo™️ biopolymers specially designed for additive manufacturing with the introduction of Ingeo 3D700 for use in large-format 3D ... - Issue 02 | 2021
Speeding up time to market…
For biobased products using fast and efficient high throughput experimentation - Issue 02 | 2021
New barrier film structure for compostable food packaging
SP Group (Singapore) and Nurel Biopolymers (Zaragoza, Spain) present a new multilayer film structure, with high oxygen barrier, sealing, and transparency properties whose main advantage is the ... - Issue 06 | 2020
A new packaging solution for aerosols
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. - Issue 05 | 2020
PLA 3D-printing filament for lighting
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. ... - Issue 05 | 2020
Pilot plant for bio-based packaging foam
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 ... - Issue 04 | 2020
Bioplastic from plant protein
World’s first commercial plant-protein bioplastic set to hit the market - Issue 04 | 2020
Partially biobased polycarbonate
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 ... - Issue 04 | 2020
Military grade biobased fire-resistant material
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 ... - Issue 04 | 2020
New cellulosic, highly functional bioplastic
Does it help to solve environmental issues such as marine plastic waste? - Issue 04 | 2020
Bacteriostatic PLA compound for 3D printing
Material innovation at Benvic takes the fight directly to Covid 19 - 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 ...