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PLA bottles soon to be released in Italy |
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Fonti Di Vinadio is getting ready to launch 50 million half-liter
“biobottles” made from the polylactic acid Ingeo by Natureworks.
One-and-a-half liter bottles are also forecast.
This fall, the Italian spring-water bottling company, Fonti di
Vinadio, will introduce a new biodegradable bottles made from
polylactic acid (PLA) Ingeo manufactured by the American company
Natureworks LCC. Ingeo has already been used for manufacturing bottles
in Ireland and Canada. It is a material obtained from renewable sources
that complies with the European standard UNI EN 13432 for the
compostability of packaging.
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