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New Renewable Offering Enters Packaging Market
DuPont expanded its renewably sourced portfolio of offerings for the packaging market with the launch of new DuPont™ Biomax® TPS thermoplastic starch and DuPont™ Biomax® PTT (polytrimethylterephtalate) injection moldable resin.  The launch took place at the global Interpack packaging trade fair in Dusseldorf, Germany.

BASF announces major bioplastics production expansion
BASF SE has announced plans for a significant expansion of its production plant for the biodegradable plastic Ecoflex® at the company’s Ludwigshafen site. The move will raise Ecoflex production capacities from the current 14,000 by 60,000 metric tons per year. Production at the expanded plant will commence in the third quarter of 2010. Ecoflex is a petrochemicals-based plastic which has the properties of conventional polyethylene but…

26.04.2008 - New Renewable Offering Enters Packaging Market
26.04.2008 - 'Sustainable' bio-plastic can damage the environment
24.04.2008 - German firm will quadruple capacity for biodegradable polymer
24.04.2008 - Plastic made from pig urine
23.04.2008 - Biodegradable Plastic Markets with high growths to 2015 over 6 Billion US Dollar and 12.5 bn 2025
23.04.2008 - Coming soon - biodegradable hypodermic needles
23.04.2008 - DuPont Honors Seven Products for Sustainable Packaging
23.04.2008 - Earthpure Organics introduces renewable, biodegradable water bottles
21.04.2008 - Neuer PHA Biokunststoff erhält Zertifizierung
21.04.2008 - New bioplastic produced from beet has been certified.
19.04.2008 - BASF baut Produktion von Bio-Kunststoffen aus
19.04.2008 - BASF announces major bioplastics production expansion
19.04.2008 - Warum Bio-Kunststoffe sich bislang nicht am Markt durchsetzen können
19.04.2008 - New innovative bioplastics packaging for cereals
16.04.2008 - Cereplast Opens European Headquarters
16.04.2008 - Alcan Packaging Launches One of Europe's First Printed Compostable Film Laminate
16.04.2008 - Alcan Packaging stellt eine der ersten bedruckten, kompostierbaren Verbundfolien Europas vor
16.04.2008 - VELOX : now a full-service distributor of bioplastics

Red Pod Group (China) > Supplier of Biodegradable Thermoform food service products, Starch based
Wetlands Engineering (USA) >  Supplier of equipments to test biodegradability and desintegration of plastics according to ISO14855 and other standards.

'Bioplastics in Packaging' at Interpack, Düsseldorf, Germany, 24.-30.04.2008
SustainPack - 3rd and Final Conference, Prague, 06.-07.05.2007

Progress in Biofibre Plastic Composites, Toronto, Canada, 12.-13.05.2007

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