In the last decades much work has been done in the field of carbon dioxide capture, purification, and transformation into useful and new fuels, chemicals and polymers.
Lightweight materials with improved cushioning, insulating, structural performances, and other characteristics are the reasons for an increasing demand for plastic foams [1].
Even if bioplastics MAGAZINE has tried to give answers to all kind of questions from the field of biobased and biodegradable plastics for almost ten years now, there are always the same questions ...
Proponents of the sustainability movement can point to the Brundtland Commission and Report as an important step in defining sustainability as “development that meets the needs of the present without ...
Since the market introduction of the Coca-Cola PET bottles in the early 1990s bottles made from polyethylene terephthalate (PET) have seen a tremendous market growth for beverages and other liquids ...
Injection moulding is a plastics processing technique for the fully automated production of plastic parts with complex geometries. Almost all sizes and shapes of plastic parts can be made by ...
In 2012, the polyurethane industry celebrated 75 years since the first form of this versatile material was made in a laboratory in Leverkusen, Germany. Initially, research led by Otto Bayer in 1937, ...
Current discussions on land use requirements for bioplastics, or of the amount of renewable resources needed, are often centered on rather irrational estimates and groundless reservations.
Which agricultural feedstocks are best for industrial uses?
The new paper by nova-Institute, Germany, is a contribution to the recent controversial debate about whether food crops should be used for ...
As industry transforms from petro-based to environmentally sustainable materials, succinic acid is emerging as one of the most competitive of the new bio-based chemicals [1].
PTT (Polytrimethylene terephthalate) is a semicrystalline polyester, closely related to the more common thermoplastic polyesters, PET (Polyethylene Terephthalate) and PBT (polybutylene terephthalate) ...
Blown film extrusion is a technology that is one of the most common methods of manufacturing plastic films, especially for, but not limited to, packaging applications.
As part of the project ‘CO2 as a polymer building block’, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, scientists from Siemens Corporate Technology, together with their project ...
Carbon dioxide is one of the most discussed molecules in the popular press, due to its role as greenhouse gas (GHG) and the increase in temperature on our planet, a phenomenon known as global ...
The emotional debate about our future in the face of increasingly serious environmental problems has left its mark. The consumer is sensitized and willing to contribute his or her share.
The concept of using protein as a plastic is not novel. While nature has been using protein for structural purposes, Henry Ford was one of the first to make automotive components, such as body ...
Bioplastics provide a sustainable application platform for proteineous meals, such as soy meal, and canola meal etc. that are available in large quantities due to rapid expansion of biodiesel ...
A number of biobased plastics, for example several partly or fully biobased polyamides are manufactured using sebacic acid as a monomer or as a chemical building block. Castor oil is the raw ...
Before the first bioplastics entered the market in significant quantities and qualities a few years ago, the industry no longer relied on the development of new plastic types over decades, but only ...
PLA (polylactide or polylactic acid) belongs to the group of biopolymers chemically prepared from biobased, renewable raw materials. In this class of materials PLA is today’s most important ...
In line with the discussion about climate change and global warming the interest of several companies and governments has been directed towards the general replacement of fossil raw materials by ...
This article is an abridged extract
- sections left out are marked (…) - from the new book ‘Engineering Biopolymers’ by H.-J. Endres and A. Siebert-Raths, Hanser Publishers, Germany [1].
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