A variety single-use plastic items are used in the green industries in agriculture or horticulture. An interesting application are plastic plant pot or nursery bag for seedling raising.
The fibre production has more than doubled in the last two decades and manmade fibres contributed to 67.5 %
of the total fibre market production in 2014 [1]. Among the manmade fibres, polyester, ...
Biotechnology company LanzaTech (Skokie, IL, USA) today announced it has partnered with lululemon athletica inc. (Vancouver, Canada), an athletic apparel company, to create the world’s first yarn and ...
According to the Ellen Macarthur foundation, washing clothes releases half a million tonnes of microplastics into the ocean each year. That’s equivalent to over 50 billion plastic bottles. Currently, ...
Tidal Vision (Bellingham, Washington, USA) recently announced a new partnership with Leigh Fibers and the opening of a new production facility in Wellford, South Carolina, USA. These developments ...
To meet a growing demand for sustainable fashion options, Eastman (Kingsport, Tennessee, USA) and DuPont Biomaterials (headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware, USA) announced in late September the ...
BioPad® by Cortec Corporation (St. Paul, Minnessota, USA) is a unique flexible non-woven pad made from byproducts of corn processing. In 2020, it earned the USDA Certified Biobased Product label, ...
Biodegradable materials, such as polyglycolic acid (PGA) and polylactic acid (PLA), are used commercially in medicine for sutures, osteosynthesis systems and drug delivery systems. The degradation of ...
The Lenzing Group (Lenzing, Austria) received confirmation of the full biodegradability of its fibers in fresh water by the independent research laboratory Organic Waste Systems (OWS) (Ghent, ...
Mussel cultivation involves a number of different steps. In The Netherlands mussel seed is collected on ropes hanging in the Waddenzee. The seed is harvested from these ropes and collected. ...
Several efforts have been made to produce biobased multifilament yarn for textile applications. While these have generated considerable interest, monofilament applications of biopolymers have not yet ...
SeaBird, based in Brittany, France, is a company that engages in the research, development and production of bioplastic materials. Since its founding in 2011, the company has focused on reducing the ...
It is well-known that the properties of plastics are not inherent in the polymer itself, but that these are obtained through the use of functional additives. Nucleating agents, plasticizers, ...
The Outdoor Sports industry is aware of customer sensitivity for environmental concerns as well as global driving forces toward sustainable products. In this context, most Outdoor Sports brands are ...
Senbis Polymer Innovations (Emmen, the Netherlands), formerly known as API, is an independent R&D service provider to the plastic industry, which also develops specific applications on their own ...
Tianan Biopolymer (Beilun, Ningbo, China) has been devoted to developing PHBV fibre applications since 2010. And in 2013, The company invested to found a new company: Bioserica Fiber is the new ...
Introduction
On the market since the early 1990s, polybutylene succinate (PBS) has been used in many compostable applications such as packaging or agriculture products. However, the use of PBS for ...
This article presents the current state of the project SPEY which aims to establish poly lactic acid (PLA) staple fibre yarns in home textiles or in technical applications using a methodological ...
Cathay Industrial Biotech (CIB), Shanghai, China, developed proprietary technology to commercially produce biobased pentamethylenediamine (DN5), in order to address the growing demand for innovative ...
SOLOTEX®, a partly biobased polyester-fibre (polytrimethylene terephthalate – PTT) by Teijin Frontier Co. Ltd., Tokyo, Japan, provides a soft, stretchy texture with gentle cushioning and offers vivid ...
Around one million tonnes of fabrics used for clothing applications (including casual and workwear) are produced each year in Europe by yarn spinning (ring and rotor spinning techniques) combining ...
Softer, thinner, skin-friendly, antibacterial and 100 % natural nonwovens
Sustainable? Of course. But it’s much more than that. QMILK is a unique natural fibre with thermo-bonding properties and ...
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