Unitika Fiber, a Japanese fibre and textile manufacturer, has developed a special fibre using our high-performance Rilsan® PA11 polyamide, which is made from renewable materials. This fibre, called Castlon, is designed to meet the textile industry’s growing demand for plant-based materials—without compromising on performance.
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Posted by Frédéric Chivrac
Disposables manufacturer Huhtamaki has extended its environmentally-friendly BioWare® range with the introduction of new PLA Polarity tumblers and lids, ideal for a wide range of cold beverages on-the-go.
Made from Ingeo™ PLA*, a resin derived from plant starch developed from annually renewable resources, new PLA Polarity tumblers and lids are certified in accordance with EN13432, the European norm for compostability of packaging.
Available in a variety of sizes (7oz, 12oz, 16oz and 21oz), all the new tumblers have the same diameter of 95mm and can be fitted with a choice of PLA Polarity lids – domed with a hole, domed without a hole or flat straw slotted lids.
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Posted by Violette Bourg
Dow and Mitsui announced that they have secured the necessary regulatory approvals for their joint venture to produce bioplastics for packaging from sugar cane-derived ethanol. The companies said the governmental green light meant that operations at the Brazilian plant would likely commence in the second quarter of 2013.
‘World’s largest bioplastics plant’
Mitsui will gain a 50% stake in Dow’s facility in Santa Vitoria, in the Minas Gera region of Brazil. It claims that this facility will be the world’s largest integrated plant to manufacturer bioplastics.
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Posted by Frédéric Chivrac
Mitsubishi Rayon (MRC) and its subsidiary Lucite International announced that they have developed bio-based methyl methacrylate (MMA), a chemical used in coatings, transparent plastics and adhesives.
Most of MMA is polymerized into polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA), a transparent thermoplastic sometimes called acrylic glass which is an economical alternative to polycarbonate. Lucite by the way, is one of the well-known acrylic glass trademarked. MRC said it working on two approach for the bio-MMA production:
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Posted by Frédéric Chivrac
Innovia Films and Sappi Fine Paper Europe have joined forces to produce laminate compostable food packaging.
The companies have joined forces to demonstrate the potential use of laminate structures in food packaging production with their first development – a compostable soup sachet.
Through the development, which is being produced purely for showcase purposes, the companies hope to demonstrate the pack with its technical functionality, equivalent to industry standard, along with its compostability attributes. Innovia and Sappi said the laminate packs are suitable for end users in the food, confectionery and pharmaceutical industries.
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Posted by Frédéric Chivrac
Archer Daniels Midland Company announces the production of a renewable, biobased propylene glycol that meets United States Pharmacopeia (USP) and USDA Certified Biobased Product Label standards. ADM is the first company worldwide to make a biobased propylene glycol that complies with USP requirements.
Available starting in November 2011, ADM’s propylene glycol USP excipient grade has also earned the USDA Certified Biobased Product Label, ensuring the product contains 100% biobased content. The product will be sold under the trade name EVO-100™ and sales will commence over the next few weeks.
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Posted by Frédéric Chivrac
Empa researchers have now developed a manufacturing process for nanocellulose powder, the raw material for creating polymer composites which can be used, for example, in lightweight structures for the car industry or as membrane and filter material for biomedicinal applications. For some time now nanocellulose has been at the focus of a good deal of industrial and scientific interest as a novel biomaterial. Potential applications range from the creation of new kinds of commercially useful materials and uses in medical technology all the way to the food and pharmaceutical industries.
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Posted by Frédéric Chivrac
Bioplastics’ producer FKuR Kunststoff GmbH presented a wide range of biodegradable, biobased and natural fiber reinforced compounds at the Fakuma 2011 show. Currently, these compounds offer a wide range of possibilities.
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Posted by Frédéric Chivrac
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Posted by Frédéric Chivrac
Yorkshire-based paper agency Papico has been appointed UK agent to a leading U.S bio plastic technology company DaniMer to help it to market its revolutionary plant-based renewable hot melt adhesive to the UK carton industry.
Papico will be particularly beneficial in helping to gain prominence for DaniMer’s hot melt adhesive, which is being marketed as a real economic alternative to petro chemical-based products. Director of Papico Tony Knight says: “Bio technology has often had the reputation for being more costly than less environmentally-friendly alternatives, but this bio adhesive will mean carton producers and converters now have a renewable bio-adhesive that is not only competitively priced but also enables companies to offer a truly sustainable piece of packaging.”
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Posted by Frédéric Chivrac
Greenlite from Porcher Industries is a new generation of high performance renewable reinforcements for the composites industry. These innovative materials are based on pure cellulose fibers, which is the most abundant and renewable biomass on earth. Greenlite™ materials are biodegradable and highly compatible with biobased resins, making them suitable for the production of 100% bio-based composites on a large scale.
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Posted by Frédéric Chivrac
Telles, a joint venture between Metabolix, Inc. and Archer Daniels Midland Company, today announced that Andolfi & C., an innovative blown-film converter headquartered in Sant’Elpidio a Mare, Marche region, Italy, will be launching a compostable bag product line based on Mvera™ B5002, a compostable film product made from a proprietary blend with Mirel™ bioplastics.
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Posted by Frédéric Chivrac
The main innovation is a thermoplastic resin, so called Gaïalène, made from non-food resources grown in France. This new generation of plastic, obtained from starch and biosourced at a minimum rate of 50%, has characteristics similar to polyolefins. Its main interests are numerous : local farming, no GMO, recyclability, much better carbon footprint. The Gaïalène resin can be used for extrusion blow moulded bottles and injected parts. It also allows manufacturing 40 micron thin shrink films for multi packing solutions.
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Amyris, Inc. and ETH Bioenergia, a leading producer of ethanol, electric energy and sugar controlled by Odebrecht S.A., have signed a memorandum of understanding for the formation of a joint venture to produce Biofene®, Amyris’s renewable farnesene
Under the agreement, the joint venture would be able to access up to two million tons of sugarcane crush capacity per year at one of ETH’s greenfield mills in Brazil. The joint venture will be controlled by ETH, and Amyris will have exclusive marketing rights for the Biofene produced at the facility. By leveraging ETH’s renowned skills on biomass production and industrial performance and Amyris’s technology, the parties expect to be able to begin production by 2014.
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Posted by Frédéric Chivrac
European specialty chemicals producer LANXESS and sustainable chemicals firm BioAmber have partnered to develop succinic acid-based plasticizers that are both renewable and phthalate-free, the companies announced on Thursday.
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Posted by Frédéric Chivrac
Teijin Limited has developed film and sheet versions of its Biofront heat-resistant bioplastic, which already is available as fibre and resin.
In film and sheet form, Biofront exhibits high transmission properties due to its stereocomplex crystalline structure achieved with high-purity L-lactate and D-lactate polymer made from renewable plant resources.
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Posted by Frédéric Chivrac
Toyota Motor Corp. is using a bio-based PET in 80 percent of the total interior surface of its new Sai gasoline-electric hybrid, increasing its use of materials from renewable sources.
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Posted by Frédéric Chivrac
Italian auto supplier Hutchinson srl has launched production of a fuel line for diesel engines that uses a new DuPont bio-based plastic blend.
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Posted by Frédéric Chivrac
Polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA), a linear polyester naturally occurring as a result of bacterial fermentation of sugar. This family can bring together more than 100 differing monomers to produce materials whose properties vary very greatly.
Thermoplastic or elastomeric materials can be created with melting points ranging from 40 to more than 180°C. MINERV-PHA is a high-performance PHA biopolymer. MINERV-PHA is endowed with optimal thermal properties. Production needs which range from -10°C to a +180°C can be met through characterization. This product is particularly suitable for injection and extrusion methods for the production of objects. It takes the place of highly pollutant materials such as PET, PP, PE, HDPE and LDPE.
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Posted by Frédéric Chivrac
About Rhein Chemie
Rhein Chemie develops, produces and sells additives, specialty chemicals and service products for the rubber, lubricant and plastics industries. Rhein Chemie has approximately 1000 employees worldwide. The company is headquartered in Mannheim, Germany and has production facilities in Europe, Asia and North and South America. Rhein Chemie is a wholly owned subsidiary of the specialty chemicals group LANXESS, Leverkusen, Germany.
About the innovative product
The Germany-based specialty chemical company Rhein Chemie Rheinau GnbH announced the availability of its new additive BioAramide ™ and won the Frost & Sullivan Global New Product Innovation Award in the Bioplastic Additives Market.
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Posted by Violette Bourg
The use of plastics components based on renewable raw materials is seen as the way forward in the plastics industry. Ecologically, such bioplastics are far superior to classic, petroleum-based products. The growing diversity of bioplastics applications is being accompanied by rising expectations on quality and processing characteristics. In cooperation with compounder and biopolymer specialist Tecnaro, Henkel has developed new polyamide additives that upgrade the performance of bio-based plastics.
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Posted by Frédéric Chivrac
Plaxica Limited (‘Plaxica‘), an emerging leader in the production of next generation biopolymers and platform chemicals from renewable resources, today announced that it has raised a further £5m in equity funding from Imperial Innovations, Invesco Perpetual and NESTA Investments The Company has raised approximately £10m to date from its investors.
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Posted by Frédéric Chivrac
An enormous factory for Co.Pro.B, Italy’s largest sugar producer, sits on the outskirts of the small northern town Minerbio. But it’s not the sugar that Bio-on, a small company with its offices near the factory, is interested in – it’s the sugar beet molasses that leaves the plant as trash.
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Posted by Frédéric Chivrac
Myriant Corporation today announced the successful development of its proprietary process for producing targeted bio-based chemicals, including succinic acid and both L(+) and D(-) lactic acid, from non-food, renewable, cellulosic feedstocks.
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Posted by Frédéric Chivrac
At “Packaging Innovations London 2011″ on 6-7 October, Stora Enso has presented its versatile selection of food service and food packaging boards, which include the Cupforma, Trayforma and Primeforma brands. The Cupforma range offers materials for drinking cups, while Trayforma is used for ready-meal trays. Primeforma is a new kind of food packaging board suitable for thermoforming on existing packaging lines. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Frédéric Chivrac
NaturePlus Renewable is a three-ply laminate based on renewably sourced materials, which Amcor has produced and converted with Belgian company Beyers Coffee.
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Posted by Frédéric Chivrac
Amyris, Inc. and Michelin have jointly signed a definitive agreement to collaborate in the development and commercialisation of renewable isoprene, the chemical building block used in synthetic and natural rubbers.
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Posted by Frédéric Chivrac
Sustainable chemical processes that minimize the generation of residues and can be incorporated into the production of biodegradable plastics. With this in mind, researchers at the Industrial Microbiology Laboratory of the Biosciences Institute of the São Paulo State University (UNESP) in Rio Claro are conducting a study involving the production and extraction of lactic acid through the fermentation of residues from renewable resources, leading to a polymeric synthesis for the production of a polylactic acid (PLA).
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Posted by Frédéric Chivrac
Amyris, Inc., a leading renewable chemicals and fuels company, unveiled EvoShieldTM, its new product line of industrial lubricants. The announcement was made during a speech delivered by Amyris CEO John Melo at the Infineon Raceway of Sonoma’s inaugural Accelerating Sustainable Performance Summit.
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Posted by Frédéric Chivrac
LANXESS is strengthening its commitment to produce premium synthetic rubbers from bio-based raw materials. The German specialty chemicals company aims to commercially produce ethylene-propylene-diene monomer (EPDM) from bio-based ethylene by the end of the year. It will be the first form of bio-based EPDM rubber in the world.
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Posted by Frédéric Chivrac
The makers claim that the shoes will sprout into flowers once they are planted in the ground.
The Oat shoes are made of hemp canvas, bio-cotton, cork and certified biodegradable plastic. The firm said that they have been created to decay and be converted into the soil. 
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Posted by Frédéric Chivrac
Toppan Printing Co., Ltd. has developed Japan’s first film for use in packaging materials that uses biomass polyethylene (PE). Full-scale sales will be launched from August 2011.
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Posted by Frédéric Chivrac
The collaboration between Italian companies Fermani Cannucce Snc and API Spa, one of the leaders in the production of thermoplastic elastomer compounds, led to the birth of 100% biodegradable straw.
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Posted by Frédéric Chivrac
Telecommunications giant AT&T announced it has specified a bioplastic be used in AT&T-branded accessory packaging. The plastic is composed of up to 30% plant-based materials sourced from ethanol harvested from natural sugarcane. AT&T did not name the supplier of the material but it sounds like this will be a compound of standard polyethyelene with the biobased PE developed and supplied by Brazilian supplier Braskem or will be the PlantBottle bioplastic used by Coca-Cola for its packaging.
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Posted by Frédéric Chivrac
Invicta Plastics is set to unveil a range of products made from a low carbon polymer material that will shake up the sustainable packaging market.
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Posted by Frédéric Chivrac
Ford Motor Co. is taking its use of soybean oil-based foam blends into another part of the car – headrests.
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Posted by Frédéric Chivrac
“We have developed a new bioplastic based on whey protein, used for making recyclable food packaging,” says Elodie Bugnicourt of Barcelona-based research institute IRIS.
This new plastic is made using whey protein, which means it is biodegradable.
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Posted by Frédéric Chivrac
The algae and biochemical sectors are becoming more interwoven as Houston-based biochemical firm Glycos Biotechnologies Inc. and Ft. Collins, Colo.-based algae developer Solix BioSystems Inc. reported that their early-stage research and development collaboration yielded positive results, demonstrating the potential for Solix’s algae oil to be converted into a range of high-value specialty chemicals through GlycosBio’s novel microbial platform.
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Posted by Frédéric Chivrac
A chemistry to make diapers and other absorbent products friendlier to the environment-with the aim of making them cost competitive, has been developed by scientists at Battelle. The next step is to commercialize this new, green innovation- an idea that uses soybean meal to replace a third of the petroleum products currently found in such items. Soybeans are about 20% oil, 70% soybean meal and 8% hulls. Soybean meal is mainly used for animal feed and is the part Battelle scientists use to convert to the SAP.
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Posted by Frédéric Chivrac
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Posted by Vincent Berthé
The low cost and low toxicity of CO2 make it an attractive industrial chemical reagent, and the utility of CO2 is dramatically illustrated by the fact that millions of tons of CO2 are consumed per year in the industrial production of urea. Other methods for using CO2 as a practical carbon feedstock are being aggressively investigated, and one of the most intensely studied processes involves the use of CO2 in the synthesis of polymers, especially polycarbonates and polyurethanes. The current industrial synthesis of those materials is primarily based on the condensation of highly toxic phosgene and aromatic or aliphatic diols. Because CO2 would provide a less expensive, less toxic alternative to phosgene, considerable effort has gone into developing those CO2-based synthesis .
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Posted by Vincent Berthé
Croda Coatings & Polymers provides environmental friendly solutions to the resin manufacturers, formulators and additive producers through its wide range of natural, high performance oleochemicals and speciality surfactants. Croda is an innovative partner offering its customers the highest level of technical service, applications know-how and a variety of technologies.
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Posted by Vincent Berthé
ACTIVIA and DANONINHO packaging based on sugarcane, is launched in the second half of August and is just one of a series of initiatives designed to reduce the Company’s CO2 emissions by 30%
The fresh dairy product market leader, Danone, through its ACTIVIA and DANONINHO brands and its partnership with Braskem, sees green plastic as yet another pioneering contribution to its solid commitment to sustainable development.
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Posted by Frédéric Chivrac
As part of a major capital investment at its Ingeo lactide and biopolymer production facility in Blair, Neb., Minnetonka, Minn.-based NatureWorks LLC will soon be the world’s first to offer in commercial volumes a high-purity, polymer-grade lactide rich in the stereoisomer meso-lactide.
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Posted by Frédéric Chivrac
Thermoplastics compounder RTP (Winona, Minnesota / USA; www.rtpcompany.com) has introduced a range of glass fibre-reinforced bioplastic PLA compounds, which it says overcomes many limitations of unmodified PLA. The new materials are claimed to provide greater strength, stiffness and thermal performance in durable and semi-durable applications.
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Posted by Frédéric Chivrac
Multibax Plc has kicked off the export of biodegradable plastic bags to Europe, to cash in on its project to produce tapioca-based bio-plastic.
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Posted by Frédéric Chivrac
Innventia, together with an industrial consortium, has developed a promising wood-polymer material from cellulose pulp and PLA. During autumn, this material is to be launched by Södra under the name DuraPulp®. The material is renewable, shows good mechanical properties, a perceived naturalness, nice tactile properties and can be dyed with clear colours. The DuraPulp® material to be launched by Södra will be in the form of composite pulp bales, to be further processed by various techniques into final products. One limiting factor though is that there today is no industrially viable production process available for producing the DuraPulp material into granules for injection moulding. The research project »MouldPulp« intends to change this. The aim of the 3-year research project is the development of a processing technology that allows making injection moulded parts out of DuraPulp® but keeping the naturalness material identity. A multidisciplinary and international team from Sweden, Finland and Germany led by Fraunhofer UMSICHT is working on this.
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Posted by Frédéric Chivrac
Apart from packaging, here is a short summary of bioplastic applications reported over the last few months. Most of them are based on PLA and/or polycondensation aliphatic polyesters, while few others are made up with PA, PHA, or based on soybean oil.
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Posted by Vincent Berthé
Green chemistry using renewable raw materials has value in itself as a business that is complementary (as opposed to alternative) to traditional chemistry; some of the applications, in their environmental performance and/or practical use, offer a clear advantage over what synthetic plastics can offer.
Here is a post gathering all new bio building blocks and bio-polymers releases over the last few months. We distinguish three types of products, those that already are commercialized or very close to be, those that are still being developed and the fundamental findings that have recently been published. Sugar-based chemicals for example can be used as building blocks to produce new monomers, polymers and additives for the commercial plastics industry. The monomeric products can be either incorporated in the backbone of new polymers or converted to low molar mass additives for thermoplastics and thermosets or as specialty chemicals.
No matter the maturity of those projects they all prove the activity of the bio-based plastic industry.
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Posted by Vincent Berthé
Here is an overview of the most interesting news in bioplastic packaging over the last few months. Many breakthroughs in the bioplastic sector open the market to a multitude of new possibilities and applications that have not been able to benefit from the environmental properties of bioplastics in the past.
Indeed new polymers are now available such as bio-polyethylene, bio-PET, bio-TPU together with engineered masterbatchs based on PLA, PBAT, TPS, cellulose.
It is now possible to find bio-packaging exhibiting great properties such as high sealability, “soft-touched”, good breathability, good thermal stability, good puncture resistance, great clarity, toughness, high tear resistance as well as water, oil and fat protection that can be biobased and/or biodegradable. Of course there is still room for development and a biomaterial gathering all of those properties would be ideal. Still and again the last few months evidenced many breakthroughs in bioplastic packaging!
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Posted by Vincent Berthé
Pakit Inc., a leading innovator in the design and development of next-generation packaging technology, is pleased to announce that it is working with PepsiCo, the world’s second largest food and beverage company, to develop new sustainable packaging.
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Posted by Frédéric Chivrac
BASF SE and Purac, a subsidiary of CSM nv, today announce the start of negotiations to form a joint venture for the production of bio-based succinic acid.
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Posted by Frédéric Chivrac
Telles’ New Mirel P5001 Film Grade Resin Achieves Performance for Markets Requiring Anaerobic Digestion; Cortec to Deliver First Mirel P5001 Commercial Film Products.
Telles, a joint venture of Metabolix, Inc. (NASDAQ: MBLX) and Archer Daniels Midland Company, today announced that Cortec® Corporation, a leading film producer located in St. Paul, Minnesota, has selected Mirel™ bioplastic for a new line of film products. Through a mutual development and commercialization effort, the two companies have developed proprietary processing and extrusion methods resulting in the first commercially viable finished flexible film products made from the new biobased Mirel P5001 film grade resin.
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Posted by Frédéric Chivrac
Nestlé has joined up with Tetra Pak to launch a cap made from plant-based plastic for two if its Brazilian milk brands.
Starting this month, Nestlé Brazil’s Ninho and MolicoUHT products will be rolled out in the country using new closures.
It is believed to be the first polyethylene (PE) cap made out of sugar cane derivates, which are polymerized in plastics for cap production.
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Posted by Frédéric Chivrac
Toyota and Ford are neck-to-neck (or maybe it should be hood-to-hood) in adopting renewable-based materials and chemicals for their automobiles.
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Posted by Frédéric Chivrac
PTT and Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation (MCC) have co-invested Bt7 billion in the world’s first factory manufacturing polybutylene succinate (PBS) from bio-material.
Prajya Phinyawat, chief executive officer of PTT’s downstream petroleum business group, yesterday said it had set up a joint venture called PTT MCC Biochem with registered capital of Bt360 million. Investment was made on a 50:50 basis.
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Posted by Frédéric Chivrac
The Dow Chemical Company and Mitsui & Co., Ltd. announced July 19 the formation of a new joint venture aimed at providing innovative and sustainable product solutions to the global high-performance flexible packaging, hygiene and medical markets.
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Posted by Frédéric Chivrac
Coca Cola has announced that it has launched its plant-bottle in South Africa.
At the same time, Coca Cola is opening a new plant in the country, located in Heidelberg, southeast of Johannesburg which will fill Coca Cola’s Valpré Spring water using the recyclable packaging.
PlantBottle packaging is currently made by converting sugarcane into monoethylene glycol (MEG), which represents 30% of the total composition of the PET plastic by weight.
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Posted by Frédéric Chivrac
DSM introduced two bio-based materials (JEC Composites Show 2010) for automotive industry in response of the increasing customer demand for sustainable products.
The products were Palapreg® ECO P55-01 a bio-based resin for automotive vehicle body part including exterior panels and EcoPaXX® a bio-based high performance engineering plastic.
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Posted by Violette Bourg
The french spectacle manufacturer “Demetz” launched in july 2010 the first biodegradable sunglasses.
These eco-friendly sunglasses called B-wear are based on injected PLA for the frame of the glasses and on Rilsan® (a 54% bio-based polyamide obtain from castor oil) used for the lenses.
PLA from corn in this case and Rilsan® from castor oil are two bio-based polymers and PLA is in addition biodegradable in compost conditions. Bio-based Rilsan® (Rilsan® G830 Rnew) was launched by Arkema in 2009 and was the first clear and bio-based polyamide (but non biodegradable).
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Posted by Violette Bourg
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