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Application News

PLA Interior Signage
An Innovative new interior signage system was recently exhibited at NatureWorks‘ Innovation Takes Root conference in Dallas, Texas.... [more]

PLA-based Paper for Laser Printing
Scientists from the Montanuniversität in Leoben, Austria, recently developed reprographic paper completely based on biopolymers. It not only looks and... [more]

Correction Roller Shells Based on PLA
ECOmfort is the latest Correction Roller from the Pritt stationery range by Henkel AG & Co. KGaA, Düsseldorf, Germany. The newly developed and innovat... [more]

Competition for Famous Coffee Capsules
This year a Swiss company is attempting to break the monopoly position enjoyed by Nespresso. The Ethical Coffee Company SA, located in Fribourg and fo... [more]

Bio-based Resin for New Boat Construction
Canada’s largest fiberglass boat builder, Campion Marine Inc., (Kelowna, British Columbia), is bringing improved environmental performance to its cust... [more]

Cellulose Based Bio-Keyboard
Fujitsu recently introduced the World‘s first injection moulded keyboard made from renewable materials. This newly developed eco-keyboard ‘KBPC PX ECO... [more]

PLA Drawing Instruments
In response to the increasing demand for environmentally responsible products as well as their own mission of acting as a responsible company, Linex, ... [more]

Basics

Basics of Bio-polyamides
An article about the basics of bio-polyamides (or, more correctly biobased polyamides) should start with the very basics of polyamides in general. Thi... [more]

Bottle Applications

PLA Beverage Bottle Presented in Austria
The Austrian pioneer company NaKu (from Natürlicher Kunststoff = natural plastic) has offered starch based bags for fresh produce since 2007. Now they... [more]

Editorial

Dear Readers

Injection Moulding

Injection Moulded Cutlery
In today‘s lifestyle the consumption of food and drink out of the home is increasing day by day and disposable tableware in fast-food restaurants, can... [more]

The Worlds First Bio Dispenser
The world’s leading trade fair for the cleaning industry, ISSA Interclean, saw for the first time a bioplastics entrant on April 26-29 in Amsterdam, a... [more]

Bioplastics - Designed for Rigid Parts
The main area of application for bioplastics in previous years has been film extrusion. Recently the production of rigid parts via injection mouldin... [more]

Injection Molded PHA Pens and Pencils
Fortune 500 company Newell Rubbermaid, whose portfolio of brands includes Rubbermaid®, Sharpie®, Graco®, Calphalon®, Irwin®, Lenox®, Levolor®, Paper M... [more]

Award Winning PHA Based Compound
At the recent International Congress on Bio-based Plastics and Composites, the first prize of the Innovation Award for Bio - based Material and Applic... [more]

Bio-Moulding and Design
A major driver for our collaborative activities, which we have named Bio-Moulding and Design, is our perception that many bio-based plastics - similar... [more]

Materials

New BoPLA Film
Taghleef Industries, (Ti) one of the largest manufacturers of BoPP (bi-axially oriented polypropylene) packaging films in the world, is launching a ne... [more]

Natural Fibres

Green, Green Grass of Home …
“Value creation in consonance with economy, ecology and social responsibility“, this was the vision that drove BIOWERT Industrie GmbH in Brensbach, Ge... [more]

Hemp - A Sustainable Raw Material for Bio-based Composites
From a historic point of view, for more than 2,000 years hemp has been an important raw material for industry. Hemp fibres were used for the manufactu... [more]

Biomaterial for Dragon Boat Decking
Dragon boats have existed for over 2,000 years, but it is only in the last twenty or so years that dragon boat racing has developed into a recognized ... [more]

Wood Composites for Toys
For more than 15 years the Institute for Natural Materials Technology (IFA Tulln in Austria) has been working on wood composites (FASAL) to help estab... [more]

NF Bioplastics to Save Coral Reefs
Widely used in many industries, plastics have become the source of white pollution. While the world is struggling to deal with this problem, GreenGran... [more]

High-Performance Flax-PLA
Composites Evolution Ltd, from Chesterfield, UK introduced a new family of materials, Biotex Commingled Flax/PLA and Biotex Flax yarns. The materials ... [more]

Cellulose Fibre Reinforced Bio-Polyamides
Continuously increasing crude oil prices, environmental responsiveness and new regulations on the use of non-renewable resources for both energy and m... [more]

News

The state-of-the-art on Bioplastics 2010
A comprehensive report entitled ‘The state-of-the-art on Bioplastics 2010‘ written by Jan Th. J. Ravenstijn MSc, has been available since January of ... [more]

FDA Approval for Mirel
Metabolix, Inc. and Archer Daniels Midland Company announced that their Joint Venture Telles received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearanc... [more]

First PLA Pilot Unit in Europe
Futerro, a 50/50 joint venture established in September 2007 by Galactic and Total Petrochemicals, recently announced the inauguration of its bioplast... [more]

New VP Sales and Marketing at Cereplast
Cereplast, Inc, El Segundo, California, USA, manufacturer of bio-based, sustainable plastics, recently announced that it has appointed Robert (Bob) Fi... [more]

Bio-based Material of the Year - Awards
There is no judging panel, it is the group of conference delegates who vote for the winners of the competition ‘Bio-based Material of the Year’ at the... [more]

Patent Dispute going on
On Friday 16 April last, the Paris Law Court issued the first-instance sentence in the case brought by Novamont against the German company Biotec and ... [more]

European Inventor Award for Tecnaro
TECNARO GmbH from Ilsfeld, Germany received one of the most prestigious international awards, the European Inventor Award 2010 (in the SMEs/research c... [more]

Opinion

How to Measure the Bio-based Content
In different committees in Brussels there is an ongoing discussion about how to define and measure the bio-based content of bio-based materials and pr... [more]

Personality

Ramani Narayan

Processing

Twin screw extrusion for wet PLA
American Leistritz Extruder Corporation has installed ZSE-27 and ZSE-50 MAXX twin screw extrusion systems and related auxiliary equipment in its‘ New ... [more]

Report

Bioplastics Research at Kassel University
In 1994 at the University of Kassel, Germany, a professorship of ‘Polymer and Recycling Technology‘ was created and funded jointly by 29 companies and... [more]

Biorefinery Blair Nebraska
When talking about PLA, and the World‘s biggest production plant in Blair, Nebraska, USA, one usually thinks of NatureWorks‘ two lines with a total an... [more]

Review

Innovation Takes Root 2010
Despite tight corporate travel budgets, 31 exhibitors and more than 300 people from 30 countries attended Innovation Takes Root 2010, the internationa... [more]