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Applications
Haigh’s Chocolates, Australia’s oldest family-owned chocolate manufacturing retailer, has introduced new biodegradable packaging for their White Ballo... [more]
Hot Coffee- and Soup Cups Made of PLA coated paper
Wei Mon Industry Co. Ltd. Headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan, lately developed their Pland Paper® hot coffee cups and soup cups based on a paper substrat... [more]
World Famous Sweets’ Wrappers go Compostable
Innovia Films’ renewable and compostable packaging film, NatureFlex™ has been chosen by Nestlé UK to wrap one of its signature confectionery brands, Q... [more]
New Shopping Bag has Luxury Looks and Biodegradability Credentials
Procos, the Munich-based maker of packaging and ribbons for luxury goods, has launched a new line of high quality promotional carry-home shopping bags... [more]
Basics
In numerous publications, presentations, company brochures etc. one can read, or hear statements, about ‘home composting’. However, when taking a clos... [more]
OK Compost HOME: Another Approach to Composting
Home composting is becoming a very popular activity in certain parts of Europe.... [more]
Editorial
When you have this, the sixth issue of bioplastics MAGAZINE for 2008, in your hand, you know we are approaching the end of the year - a year that has ... [more]
Films, Flexibles, Bags
Advantages of multilayer systems: Approximately one third of worldwide plastics production is used for the production of film, making film extrusion o... [more]
Latest Innovations in Flexible Packaging Films
Increasing the range of applications that can be served by biopackaging requires constant innovation e.g. the development of moisture barrier properti... [more]
Performance of Mirel in Agricultural Mulch Film Applications
An evaluation of agricultural mulch film made from biobased PHA polymers (Mirel™ from Telles™, Lowell, Massachusetts, USA) was conducted by Professor ... [more]
A New Mater-Bi Grade for Garden Waste Collections: A Specifically Taylor-made Application
Besides other Mater-Bi® grades for smaller biobags made for kitchen waste collections, Italian supplier Novamont has also developed a different materi... [more]
From Science & Research
Researchers team up to convert polystyrene and PET into a biodegradable plastic.... [more]
LCA
Background: A carbon footprint is a measure of the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases (GHG) emitted during the life cycle of a ... [more]
Materials
The Development of green PP of renewable origin is an unprecedented feat by Brazilian company Braskem, which was also the pioneer in launching the fir... [more]
News
Guayaki Goes for Green Packaging
BioSolar to Begin Pre-Production Runs of Its Solar Module
PLA Bottles in US
Paper Coating, Laminating
Sidaplax and its parent company Plastic Suppliers Inc. are leading manufacturers of OPS & PLA specialty films and distributors of a large variety of o... [more]
A Better Option for Specialized Performance Coatings with Ingeo
Performance coatings are now a new and significant application for Ingeo™ biopolymer – an application that today allows for the expansion of extrusion... [more]
Extrusion coating and laminating with biopolymers
Under the brand name Sustainex Mondi offers versatile biodegradable and sustainable packaging materials suitable for applications in the food and non-... [more]
Mater-Bi Innovative Materials For Extrusion Coating and Lamination
Compostable bioplastics like Mater-Bi®, derived from or containing renewable resources, are a new generation of materials able to significantly reduce... [more]
Politics
In France, the companies involved in bioplastics are united in a national organization named ‘Club Bio-plastiques’. It is the Association Française Po... [more]
Preview
Organised by European Plastics News, the tenth Bioplastics conference, to be held in Munich on December 3 and 4 this year is presenting the third Biop... [more]
Processing
In film extrusion, new line concepts and specially adapted technology are required when processing bioplastics. Reifenhäuser of Troisdorf, Germany, on... [more]
Review
The 3rd European Bioplastics Conference was held in Berlin, on the 5th / 6th November. The 22 exhibitors and approximately 300 delegates from 26 count... [more]
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