PT ZONE: Biopolymers & Renewable Materials
Compostable Drinking Straws from PLA
New Firm Offers PVC Compounds Free of Phthalates & Heavy Metals
WEB EXCLUSIVE: Axiall Corp., Atlanta, the new company that resulted earlier this year from the merger or Georgia Gulf and PPG Industries’ commodities chemicals business, has developed flexible and rigid PVC compounds that replace phthalates and heavy-metal stabilizers with organic alternatives.
New Nylons Produced with 100% Renewable MonomerWEB EXCLUSIVE: China’s Cathay Industrial Biotech (U.S. office in Powell, Ohio) has developed a new line of nylons produced with a novel, proprietary technology that produces 1,5-pentane diamine monomer from sugar cane, making it 100% renewable.
Conveying, Drying, Crystallizing PLA : The Energy-Saving Packaging SolutionWhen the new industry term “bioresins” hit the plastics community in the early 2000s, polylactic acid (PLA ) made its way to the top of the list in a class of new plant-based materials.
Cereplast Forms Subsidiary for Algae-Based BioplasticsWEB EXCLUSIVE: Algaeplast is a new wholly-owned subsidiary of Cereplast, Inc., El Segundo, Calif., a maker of compostable and other biobased compounds.
New Option for No-Dry PET, PLA SheetNew twin-screw system is based on a conical design.
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