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Application News
PLA Desktop Accessories
SunChips PLA Snack Bag
Biodegradable Plastic Cards
Tamper Evident Products from Clarifoil
Applications
Sony uses annually around 1.4 million tons of various materials such as plastics, metals, papers, etc., worldwide. In order to contribute to the creat... [more]
Basics
Companies such as Braskem or Dow announced the production of polyolefins (polyethylene, polypropylene) from sugar cane based bio-ethanol. ... [more]
Land Use for Bioplastics
There is an ongoing public, political and industrial debate, with wide-reaching implications, on the competition between food, animal feeds and indust... [more]
Bottle Applications
The (US) National Association for PET Container Resources (NAPCOR) recently urged restraint in the use of degradable additives in PET packaging.... [more]
Using Near-Infrared Sorting to Recycle PLA Bottles
In the last several years, new plastic bottles made from renewably resourced Ingeo™ (polylactic acid) PLA have entered the market. Brand-owner and ret... [more]
Extrusion Blow Moulding of Bioplastics
Besides films and bags, rigid packaging such as trays or clamshells, and bottles, are all part of the huge range of packaging applications where biopl... [more]
Green Bottles™ at Capitol Hill
The first decade of the 21st century has witnessed a steady growth and evolution in consumer interest in products with demonstrated ‘green‘ benefits. ... [more]
Coca-Cola Biobottle Uses Biobased Ethylene Glycol
In the last issue bioplastics MAGZINE reported about the planned launch of Coca-Cola‘s PlantBottle™. This new plastic bottle will be made partially (u... [more]
PLA Bottles - Recyclable and Compostable
Among the increasing number of companies offering their products in PLA bottles is the privately held Primo Water Corporation, headquartered in Winsto... [more]
Editorial
As in the last years, bioplastics MAGAZINE carries reports about the latest bottle applications in the most thirsty period of the year, which points t... [more]
Materials
As the world of bioplastics becomes more and more a mainstream industry, it seems it is also destined to become more and more confusing. Everything fr... [more]
Biodegradable High Barrier for Packaging
Soarus LLC from Arlington Heights, Illinois, USA recently introduced ‘Nichigo G-Polymer®’, a unique multi-functional barrier and water solution polyme... [more]
Polyamides Based on Biotechnological Succinic Acid
The Fraunhofer research group develops innovative biobased polymers.... [more]
Stereocomplex PLA Offers High Durability Comparable to PET
Teijin Limited from Osaka, Japan, announced that it has upgraded its BIOFRONT™ bioplastic with substantially improved resistance to hydrolytic degrada... [more]
News
Australian Biograde Becomes Cardia Bioplastics
Biodegradable Bags Project in Thailand
Mirel Bioplastic Certified Compostable by BPI
Hasso von Pogrell is European Bioplastics‘ New Managing Director
Bioplastics Awards 2009
PURAC Receives Frost & Sullivan Innovation Award
European Bioplastics Says “No“ to Oxo‘s
interpack 2011 - Again a Promising Product Think-Tank
Non Food
As experienced during the food crisis of 2008, renewable technologies have a strong impact on the way agricultural land and irrigation water is used. ... [more]
Algae to Plastics
The newly formed company Algaeventure Systems is the latest quest of Univenture, Marysville, Ohio, USA, a media packaging company with a twenty-year h... [more]
Review
Even if NPE, ‘The International Plastics Showcase’ in Chicago from June 22 to 26, 2009 had a decrease in the number of visitors by 30%, a good portion... [more]
Bioplastics hot topic at SPE‘s ANTEC 2009
The Bioplastics Special Interest Group (SIG) at the Society of Plastic Engineers (SPE) was created in September 2008 for the purpose of providing a un... [more]
Testing
More and more resources are being invested by industry in the field of biodegradable packaging. But just how biodegradable are these products? Have al... [more]
Top Talk
End of April the industry association European Bioplastics elected their new board to be chaired by Andy Sweetman (Innovia Films), After his first 100... [more]
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