bioplastics

Bioplastics: 5 years later

Lucia April 19, 2011 bioplastic, renewable

Review of the big changes that have taken place in the bioplastics market in just 5 years, taking bioplastics from having a reduced market penetration to becoming one of the most important trends within the polymer market

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Arkema Renewables

Lucia April 22, 2009 bioplastic, renewable, sport

In my last post, I discussed why it is important for bioplastics to penetrate the market of durable applications. I suggested that this was a new step for the industry and I’ve been politely corrected by Todd Rogers, Market Manager- Polyamides at Arkema Inc, who pointed out that Arkema has been commercialising durable bioplastics for nearly 50 years. To amend my mistake and provide me with more info, Mr Rogers and I spend some time discussing Arkema’s Renewable range, the recently created Bioplastics Council and some of the environmental challenges faced by the plastics industry

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Old plastics renewing themselves

Lucia July 18, 2008 bioplastic, renewable

big polyolefin producers have already moved to add renewable products to their portfolio. Dow, I have already explained its growth and diversification strategy with the buying of Rohm and Haas, is very active in this field, developing natural PE and polyols

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Lucia July 14, 2008 bioplastic, renewable

When talking about bioplastics, we usually refer to polymers sourced partial or totally from natural and renewable resources. Some of them have a different chemistry from already existing plastics while others are as common in their oil based form as polyolefins or polyurethane. Today I’m going to talk about the

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