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- Issue 06 | 2015
Plastics made from CO2 Carbon dioxide as chemical feedstock
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. - Issue 05 | 2015
Land use (update)
How much land is being used for the production of biobased plastics? - Issue 04 | 2015
Plastics foaming
Lightweight materials with improved cushioning, insulating, structural performances, and other characteristics are the reasons for an increasing demand for plastic foams [1]. - Issue 03 | 2015
Frequently asked questions
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 ... - Issue 02 | 2015
Can bioplastics polish the image of packaging?
Biobased materials bring packaging to the attention of the end user - Issue 06 | 2014
Next-generation sustainability requires higher product performance
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 ... - Issue 05 | 2014
Biobased Building Blocks
Most plastics that are called bioplastics today are biobased, that means derived from plants or other renewable feedstock. - Issue 04 | 2014
Stretch blow moulding
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 ... - Issue 03 | 2014
Injection Moulding
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 ... - Issue 02 | 2014
Polyurethanes
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, ... - Issue 01 | 2014
Facts on land use for old and new biobased plastics
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. - Issue 06 | 2013
Biobased carbon vs biomass ?
Understanding terminology and value proposition in the bioplastics space – biobased vs biobased carbon vs biomass based - Issue 04 | 2013
Food or non-food
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 ... - Issue 03 | 2013
Succinic acid
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]. - Issue 02 | 2013
Biorefinery – The future of bio-based products production?
What is a biorefinery? Almost every day we hear or read this term. This article tries to explain this rather complex topic. - Issue 06 | 2012
Blown film extrusion
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. - Issue 05 | 2012
Sustainable Plastic from CO2 Waste
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 ... - Issue 05 | 2012
First plastics from CO2 coming onto the market - and they can be biodegradable
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 ... - Issue 05 | 2012
No ‘greenwashing‘ with bioplastics - European Bioplastics publishes ‘Environmental Communications Guide‘
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. - Issue 04 | 2012
Bioplastics from proteins
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 ... - Issue 04 | 2012
Proteineous meals for bioplastics
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 ... - Issue 03 | 2012
Castor oil, an important source for bioplastics
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 ... - Issue 02 | 2012
Thermoforming of bioplastics
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 ... - Issue 02 | 2012
Basics of the 14C method
How to use radiocarbon dating to determine the biobased carbon content - Issue 01 | 2012
Basics of PLA
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 ... - Issue 05 | 2011
Algae – Source for Bioplastics?
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 ... - Issue 04 | 2011
The of Blow molding of Bioplastics
Blow molding applications abound for polymeric materials and represent significant opportunities for biopolymers. - Issue 03 | 2011
Basics of PHA
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].