6140 subscribers 1285 documents Subscribe to this channel
Mar 31, 2021 | Industry News
A research team has created a high-quality bioplastic from wood byproducts. The researchers say the resulting material shows a high mechanical strength, stability when holding liquids, and UV-light...
Read more
Mar 22, 2021 | Industry News
Scientists from Stellenbosch University (SU) have discovered a way to use wheat straw and mango peels in the development of renewable, biodegradable and non-toxic, active food packaging that could...
Mar 17, 2021 | Industry News
Polymer scientists from the University of Groningen and NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, both in the Netherlands, have developed a polymer membrane from biobased malic acid. It is a...
Mar 9, 2021 | Industry News
Corbion has announced the launch of a multi-faceted initiative to substantially increase its capacity for producing lactic acid and lactic-acid derivatives. The global initiative is expected to...
Mar 5, 2021 | Industry News
Novomer has announced the successful demonstration of the lowest-cost polymerization process to make compostable polymers for circular economy solutions. The compostable polymer, will use Novomer’s...
Feb 26, 2021 | Industry News
Braskem will expand its capacity to produce green ethylene, a raw material produced from sugar cane ethanol and used to produce renewable resins that capture CO2 from the atmosphere. The expansion...
SP Group and NUREL Biopolymers present a new multilayer film structure, with high oxygen barrier, sealing and transparency properties whose main advantage is the compostability of the container...
Feb 24, 2021 | Industry News
Scientists from the University of Groningen (The Netherlands) and the East China University of Science and Technology (ECUST) in Shanghai produced different polymers from lipoic acid, a natural...
Feb 16, 2021 | Industry News
Researchers at the University of Tübingen have now succeeded for the first time in changing the metabolism of cyanobacteria in such a way that they produce bioplastics, a by-product of...
Feb 12, 2021 | Industry News
Milliken & Company’s Chemical Division has joined the Global Organization for PHA (GO!PHA) to help address the technical and market development challenges related to PHA biodegradable biopolymers...