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Futamura (Nagoya, Japan) is delighted to announce the recent opening of its state-of-the-art cellulose film production line at its European manufacturing plant in Wigton, UK.

The early bird discounts for the 3rd installation of the prestigious conference about everything PHA ends today.

Melodea, Ltd., a leading sustainable barrier coatings producer for packaging (Rehovot, Israel), introduces its newest innovation, MelOx NGen™. MelOx NGen is a high-performance barrier product specifically engineered to allow for the recyclability of plastic food packaging and beyond. In addition to its excellent eco-profile, the new barrier has proven superior in its key role of maintaining food freshness and substantially reducing plastic waste.

A step forward in research, a big step for circularity in textiles: REVECOL® (Recycled Vegetable Cooking Oil) represents a new generation of textile chemical auxiliaries, which are high-performing and obtained from vegetable exhausted cooking oil. For the first time, this step of the textile supply chain can thus also make use of materials with a circular approach, contributing to the real sustainability of the finished product.

While materials, feedstocks, and EoL options are all important topics for the (bio)plastics industry, sustainable solutions also profit from related technical developments that help with everything from traceability to “just” reducing the electricity bill.

Futamura (Wigton, UK) is pleased to announce that its range of renewable and compostable films can now be laser coded to enable additional consumer communication, without the need for traditional printing. This

For the 5th time we will host the Bioplastics Business Breakfast during the K-show in Düsseldorf, Germany - if you would like to be a presenter, let us know.

Brazil and Germany Bioplastics are conquering new areas of application, from construction to automotive industry. They help to minimize dependencies on oil and gas as well as the carbon footprint. And they are also becoming interesting alternatives in terms of price.

At FIP in Lyon (April 5 to 8), NETSTAL (Näfels, Switzerland) will present an innovative thin-wall packaging application using KANEKA’s (Tokyo, Japan) Biodegradable Polymer Green Planet™.

John Crane's polymer melt filtration system will help to produce NatureWorks' Ingeo™ PLA biopolymer, a process that transforms greenhouse gases and plant sugars into bioplastic.

Sulzer has been awarded by Yangzhou Huitong Biological New Material to supply technology and key equipment for its polylactic acid (PLA) production facility in Jiangsu Province, China. The facility will have a production capacity of 30’000 tonnes per year.

At its Customer Center in Lossburg, Germany, ARBURG regularly carries out processing tests on bio-based plastics, including the INZEA product family distributed by Biesterfeld.

Stratasys Ltd., a leader in polymer 3D printing solutions, announced its commitment to lead 3D printing with an ESG-focused offering, establishing its ‘Stratasys Sustainability’ function and appointing Rosa Coblens as Vice President of Sustainability. Stratasys said a commitment to a circular economy, climate action, and social impact is paramount to building on its 30+ years of leadership in polymer 3D printing.

Borealis has entered into a multi-dimensional partnership with Renasci N.V., a provider of innovative recycling solutions and creator of the novel Smart Chain Processing (SCP) concept.

Clariter, an international clean-tech company, announced today that it won Frost & Sullivan's 2021 Technology Innovation Leadership Award in the European chemical upcycling of plastic waste Industry.

Sulzer Chemtech has won a contract to supply lactide production equipment to a project at Zhejiang Depei New Material Co.’s latest plant in Ningbo, Zhejiang province, China.

Swedish innovation company RenCom AB has chosen Coperion’s state-of-the art twin screw extrusion system to enable the production of RENOL, an innovative thermoplastic biomaterial that can be used to replace fossil-based plastics.

Rompa Group, a plastics processor with operations at sites on three continents, recently drafted a whitepaper on sustainability. Rompa uses recycled plastics in its production processes and is currently conducting tests with bioplastics for several major customers – a good reason to include a chapter on bioplastics in its whitepaper.

As part of the continuing journey to improve the sustainability of nonwoven products, Fibertex Personal Care has attained ISCC certification (International Sustainability and Carbon Certification) for its plant in Aalborg, Denmark. This enable the site to sell ISCC Plus certified nonwovens.

The industrialization of the disruptive Dry Molded Fiber technology just received a considerable boost with the unveiling by the Swedish start-up PulPac of its very first pilot line. The technology has been developed as an alternative to single-use plastics, and will be licensed to manufacturers and brands setting up their own production lines.

Bioplastic processing procedures are constantly evolving. As the consumer demand for biodegradable, eco-friendly products increases, the subsequent need for bioplastic packaging will as well. Although not all bioplastics are suitable for injection blow moulding, there are a number that are.