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- Issue 05 | 2015
PHA 3D printing fi laments
With the explosive growth of the global 3D printing industry, a new market for plastic materials has opened up. In fact, it is estimated that by 2020, there will be over 115,000 tonnes of plastics ... - Issue 02 | 2015
Itaconic acid-based monomers and polymers
The mission of Advanced Polymer Materials (APM), a company formed in 2007 as a spin-off for new business initiatives proposed by researchers of the University of Ferrara (Italy), is to provide ... - Issue 05 | 2014
High barrier in-mould labelling
Miko Pac (Turnhout, Belgium) is a packaging expert in injection molding of plastics for food packaging. - Issue 03 | 2014
Renewable 5-HMF
Biobased platform chemical presents opportunities for bioplastics sector - Issue 03 | 2014
PHA Modifiers for PLA Fiber
Metabolix (Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA) recently introduced newly developed polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) copolymer technology. - Issue 03 | 2014
Bioplastic from shrimp shell
Researchers at Harvard‘s Wyss Institute (Boston, Massachussetts, USA) have developed a bioplastic from chitosan, a form of chitin, which is a powerful player in the world of natural polymers and the ... - Issue 03 | 2014
Green biocomposites for architectural applications
Green biocomposites are composed of natural fibres and biobased matrices. Bio-based matrices and industrial natural fibres composition, including hemp, jute and flax, etc. leads mostly to product ... - Issue 03 | 2014
New high heat resistance grade
After BIOPLAST 500, their first resin for film applications reaching 51% of biobased carbon according to ASTM D6866, BIOTEC GmbH & Co. KG (Emmerich, Germany) is now achieving new performances ... - Issue 02 | 2014
Impact Modifier for PLA
T Green Dot (Cottonwood Falls, Kansas, USA) recently presented data on the use of the company’s Terratek® Flex compostable bioplastic elastomer as an impact modifier for PLA. Terratek Flex is shown ... - Issue 02 | 2014
Natural fibres as flame-retardants? Agro-fibres as a main component in biocomposites
Throughout the past two decades natural fibres have been applied in many applications and industries including automotives, aircraft, paper industries, textiles as well as building and construction ... - Issue 02 | 2014
News for “drop-in” bioplastics: New renewable solutions now offer a new gateway to biobased plastics
Neste Oil (Espoo, Finland), the world’s largest producer of renewable diesel, is now entering a new market: sustainable plastics and chemicals. Its growing family of NEXBTL renewable products ... - Issue 05 | 2013
Films with excellent barrier properties
As published in issue 04/2011 of bioplastics MAGAZINE [1], more and more waste from food production plants is used as feedstocks for bioplastics, following a Maxi-use© strategy. Research is ongoing ... - Issue 02 | 2013
On the way to fully bio-based PET
Different market forecasts predict the strongest growth for bio-based PET (cf. e.g. page 10 or 22) in the upcoming years. While biobased mono ethylene glycol (MEG), which makes up 30% by wt. of the ... - Issue 04 | 2013
PLA without metallic catalysts
The European project InnoREX enables the production of monolayer bioplastic packaging without metallic catalysts thanks to the broad competence spectrum of the project’s consortium. The demand for ... - Issue 04 | 2013
Biobased acrylic acid
BASF (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Cargill (Minneapolis, MN, USA) and Novozymes (Copenhagen, Denmark) recently announced the achievement of an important milestone in their joint development of ... - Issue 04 | 2013
Bio-PA for handheld devices
New advanced polymers have enabled handheld device designers greater freedom so they can continue to refresh the look, feel and upgrade performance, while delivering a better environmental footprint, ... - Issue 04 | 2013
New range of biosourced polyamides
Arkema, Colombes, France, expands its offering with Rilsan® T range, some new biosourced polyamide 10.10 processed from castor oil. Manufactured at its Serquigny facility in France, it benefits from ... - Issue 04 | 2013
Biobased PBT
LANXESS (Leverkusen, Germany) and Genomatica (San Diego, California, USA) announced that Lanxess has run a production campaign of biobased Polybutylene terephthalate (PBT) in Lanxess’ world-scale ... - Issue 04 | 2013
New biobased EPDM grades
Synthetic rubber specialist LANXESS (headquartred in Leverkusen, Germany) will be adding not one but five new grades to its portfolio of green ethylene-propylene-diene elastomers (Keltan Eco) before ... - Issue 03 | 2013
Innovative biopolymer blend
An innovative PLA based blend with improved toughness and durability is close to reaching the market. The material, named Floreon was developed under a TSB funded knowledge transfer partnership ... - Issue 02 | 2013
Structural infusion resin
DSM presents Beyone™ 1, Styrene-free and Cobalt-free structural infusion resin with 40 % bio-content. DSM recently announced the introduction of Beyone 1, a new high performance resin system. The new ... - Issue 02 | 2013
New algae bioplastics
Cereplast, Inc. has commercialized Cereplast Algae Bioplastics™ with the launch of Biopropylene® 109D, an injection molding grade manufactured with 20% post-industrial algae biomatter. The company ... - Issue 01 | 2013
Copolyester for consumer electronics
Arnitel© Eco thermoplastic copolyester from DSM has been used successfully in soft touch surfaces by a world leading manufacturer of consumer electronics. - Issue 01 | 2013
Biocomposite uses Green PE
To meet the growing demand for environmentally friendly and high-performing materials, Rhe Tech, Inc. (Whitmore Lake, Michigan, USA) has expanded its RheVision® line of biocomposites. RheTech is ... - Issue 06 | 2012
Renewable naphtha for producing bioplastics
Neste Oil, Espoo, Finland - the world´s largest producer of renewable diesel - has launched the commercial production and sales of renewable naphtha for corporate customers. - Issue 06 | 2012
Waste cooking oil makes bioplastics cheaper
Bioplastics that are naturally synthesized by microbes could be made commercially viable by using waste cooking oil as a starting material. This would reduce environmental contamination and also give ... - Issue 06 | 2012
Turning biomass into bioplastics and carbon fibers
Conceptually, to be able to use naturally synthesized biopolymers from plant biomass, one needs to devise a ‘sorting mechanism’ that separates at high yield and high purity the products of interest. ...