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On World Environment Day, Waste Free Oceans is reiterating its commitment to protect the world’s oceans and waterways. The organisation is continuing its repetitive programme of hotspot clean-ups and remediation projects in the Danube river basin in Bulgaria, working towards the Black Sea and the Danube Delta in Romania.

A team of researchers at the KTU Faculty of Chemical Technology has created a fully-compostable packaging for food products from bioplastic, which disintegrates with the help of microorganisms

Boulder Clean, a producer of powerful plant based cleaning products, and Braskem, the largest thermoplastics polyolefins producer in the Americas and leading producer of biopolymers in the world, announced last week the integration of Braskem's plant-based bioplastic into Boulder Clean's newest sustainably focused laundry detergent packaging.

Solugen Inc., an emerging specialty chemicals manufacturer and world’s first and only producer of bio-based peroxide solutions, has announced the closing of $32 million in Series B funding led by Founders Fund with key participation from other venture capital investors such as Y Combinator, Refactor Capital, Fifty Years and KdT Ventures.

Walki Group, headquartered in Espoo, Finland has signed a definitive purchase agreement to acquire 100 % of the shares of Plastiroll Oy, a Finnish sustainable packaging material producer. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.

Stora Enso has introduced DuraSense by Stora Enso – wood-based biocomposites for premium cosmetics, food and luxury brands seeking alternatives to plastic packaging. With the help of DuraSense, customers who place very high demands on aesthetics and tactile values can make their packaging eco-friendlier.

Earlier this month, Arkema announced the location of its planned new world-scale plant for the production of the monomer of PA11 - 11-Aminoundecanoic acid, derived from castor oil - and its Rilsan polyamide 11 resins.

Fredahl Rydéns, the largest supplier of funeral products in the Nordic countries has launched a burial coffin made from a biocomposite called OrganoComp. Using only 50% of the amount of raw material normally needed, the weight of the ‘Saga’ coffin is half the weight - 20kg instead of 40kg – of a traditional coffin.

The hopes are high when a high-end retailer, a premium food manufacturer, an innovative fibre material producer and a food packaging specialist join forces in an accelerated development project. The aim was nothing less than to find a plastic-replacing, sustainable solution for ready meal trays used in significant quantities every day.

Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have developed a new, stretchy, plant-derived material that outperforms the adhesiveness of the natural chemical that gives mussels the ability to stick to rocks and ships.

Din Certco has entered into a new collaboration agreement for the testing of compostable products with Scion, a government-owned company that carries out scientific research for the benefit of New Zealand. Scion specializes in research, science and technology development for the forestry, wood and wood-derived materials and other biomaterial sectors.

COEXPAN, Grupo Lantero’s division specializing in the manufacture of rigid sheets and thermoformed products, will be exhibiting at Chinaplas 2019, the international trade fair for the plastics industry which takes place 21-24 May in Guangzhou from 21st to 24th May.

Anandi Eco+ are the first and only Govt. of India lab certified 100% compostable sanitary pads which become part of soil & manure within 90 – 180 days, both under composting conditions and in nature developed by Aakar Innovations..

Biome Bioplastics has welcomed the findings of a new report by the Biomass Biorefinery Network (BBNet), which has identified significant potential for the UK’s compostable plastic packaging market.

A team from the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Engineering and Automation (IPA), working closely with Tecnaro, a producer of renewably sourced raw materials and Dambeck, a supplier of orthopaedic prostheses, investigated the use of biobased materials for making orthoses and prostheses.

BASF and Lactips today announced that both companies have signed an exclusive contract to market Lactips’ water-soluble, 100% bio-based and fully biodegradable material prepared from natural ingredients.

The Green Chemistry & Commerce Council (GC3), a business-to-business collaborative that drives the commercial adoption of green chemistry, has announced the three winners of the GC3 Startup Network’s 4th Annual Technology Showcase.

With Braskem’s Green PE, FKuR has a family of biobased plastics in its portfolio, which has proved to be a great success with tube producers. It is a sustainable, environmentally compatible and easily printable alternative to fossil based counterparts.

During a May 2 conference call, DowDuPont said it is moving six units into a new non-core segment as it considers options, including divestment.

The viability of Anellotech’s Bio-TCat™ technology has now been proven by achieving commercially-targeted yields in its TCat-8® pilot unit in Silsbee, Texas during six months of continuous process operations.

Kaneka Americas Holding, Inc. headquartered in Houston, Texas, is proud to announce the creation of a new biopolymers division, for the sale of Kaneka’s plant-based degradable plastic PHBH compounds in the United States. The new division will also be located in Houston.

Berlin, 02 May 2019: The „Verbund kompostierbare Produkte e.V.“ (Association for Compostable Products) welcomes the immediate correction by the press office of the University of Plymouth due to the numerous false quotes of the study results.

At last month’s Nordic 3D Expo in Espoo Dipoli Congress Centre, UPM demonstrated large scale robot-based 3D printing applications in collaboration with ABB and Prenta, opening new possibilities for designers and manufacturers.

In 2017, Global Market Insights published a new study which looked at the burgeoning growth of the biopolymer coatings market through the year 2024. According to this report, the market is set to exceed USD 1.3 billion by that year. Two years later, the results still hold up.

The results of the study Environmental deterioration of biodegradable, oxo-biodegradable, compostable, and conventional plastic carrier bags in the sea, soil, and open-air over a 3-year period from Imogen E. Napper and Richard C. Thompson of the University of Plymouth, were announced yesterday.

The Green Chemistry & Commerce Council (GC3), a business- to-business collaborative that drives the commercial adoption of green chemistry, has announced the 10 semi-finalists for the GC3 Startup Network’s 4th Annual Technology Showcase, which will be held May 7, in advance of the annual GC3 Innovators Roundtable on May 8-9 in Cincinnati, Ohio (USA).

Japan’s Sumitomo Chemical and California-based Zymergen have signed a multi-year partnership to bring new specialty materials to the market designed to meet consumer trends in high-tech industries.

Algae blooms are toxic and often kill fish and surrounding wildlife. Gen3Bio, a Purdue-affiliated startup in Purdue Research Park in West Lafayette, Indiana is advancing a unique way to transform algae used to purify municipal wastewater into specialty bio-based chemicals such as biofuels or bioplastics.

Japan-based cosmetics company Shiseido and Kaneka Corporation have joined forces to develop biobased packaging for Shiseido’s cosmetic products based on Kaneka Biodegradable Polymer PHBH, a proprietary material that is also biodegradable in seawater.

A recent market study on the agricultural film market has yielded a number of interesting insights. The study, entitled “Agricultural Films Market Forecast, Trend Analysis & Competition Tracking – Global Market Insights 2018 to 2028” forecasts a year-on-year growth in 2019 of more than 5% over 2018.