Category: Production Capacity
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ALPLA Invests in rPET in Italy
Construction of an extrusion system in Anagni for 15,000 tonnes of rPET a year
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Bioplastics Leader Goes for Rotterdam
Market leader in bioplastics chooses port of Rotterdam — SYMPHONY ENVIRONMENTAL sues the EU for breach of REACH
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Corbion to Expand Lactic Acid Capacity in US
Investment to increase production capacity demonstrates company’s commitment to regional customers and to meeting their growing needs.
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Borealis Advanced Mechanical Recycling Plant in Germany
Borealis and TOMRA open state-of-the-art plant for post-consumer plastic waste sorting and advanced mechanical recycling
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Belgium Builds 3 New Recycling Centers
Fost Plus today announced the construction of three new recycling centers for plastic household packaging waste.
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Afyren Builds Biorefinery in France
AFYREN, a biotechnology start-up that is a member of the French Tech 120, is making the leap to industrial-scale production…
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Is Thailand Next Plastic Waste Dumping Paradise?
Will Thailand become the new China in terms of plastic waste dumping place?
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Nurel Expands Biopolymers Production
this new plant will double the production of biopolymers to correspond the growing demand for sustainable plastics
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Genomatica to Scale Up Bio Nylon Production
Genomatica to Scale Bio-nylon 50-Fold with Aquafil to Meet Surging Brand Demand
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New Largest Bioplastic Plant in Central and Eastern Europe
The manufacturer invested more than EUR 10 million in developing a state-of-the art facility near Bucharest, Romania, dedicated to processing…
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New Threat for Plastic Industry
This may become one of the most important problems for the plastic industry in the medium term.
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Origin Materials to Build Bio Chemical Plant in Canada
Origin Materials to Build Bio Chemical Plant in Canada
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Sekab to Build Green Chemicals Plant
Sekab is investing in its own technology: wants to build a production plant for green chemicals and biofuels
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NGO Block Construction of Plastic Plant
One of the largest plastic plant may not be build thanks to the opposition of NGOs. It may set jurisprudence.
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Sulzer Provides Technology for China PLA Plant
Sulzer completes PLA plant for B&F PLA
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Aramco and Sabic Fossil Chemical Plant on Hold
Saudi Aramco and Saudi Basic Industries Corp. will re-evaluate the scope of a planned crude-to-chemicals project in the kingdom as…
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UPM Builds Biochemical Plant in Germany
The construction of UPM’s innovative biochemicals facility starts in Germany
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Solvay Opens Second Bio Solvent Plant in Brazil
The new plant in Paulinia, São Paulo specialises in the development of a bio-based solvent to mainly serve the European…
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Lactips Builds New Plant
Lactips builds its future with a new plant in the Gier Valley
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New Zealand Needs Biopilot Plant
Missing the biopilot bridge between science and commercialisation.
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New US Polystyrene Recycling Plant
INEOS Styrolution and AmSty Announce Joint Facility for Advanced Recycling of Polystyrene in Channahon, Illinois, using Agilyx Technology
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New Biorefinery in Thailand
EECi biorefinery project almost 50% complete
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NatureWorks Increases PLA Production
NatureWorks announces additional lactide monomer purification technology to expand the availability of Ingeo biopolymer from Blair facility
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Thyssenkrupp to Build Second PLA Plant in China
thyssenkrupp’s plant engineering business recently won another order to build a bioplastics plant based on the patented PLAneo® technology. It…
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ALPLA Builds Recycling Plant in Mexico
ALPLA builds HDPE recycling plant in Mexico
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New Biobased Packaging Foam Plant
Stora Enso to build a pilot plant for bio-based packaging foam.
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Bioplastics Drives Demand for Plastic Machinery
Compounding extruders are reporting greater interest in plastics recycling and bioplastics.
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NL Builds New Sustainable Plastics Testing Facility
Multi-million investment in R&D infrastructure in the Netherlands.
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Bioplastic Bags Production Resumes in Caribbean
Local manufacturers will restart the production of biodegradable plastic bags on Tuesday.
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Danimer Receives US DOE Grant
Danimer Scientific Receives U.S. Department of Energy Grant to Support Bioplastic Production
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Avantium Plans to Build New PEF Plant
Worley has been awarded a FEED (front-end engineering design) to develop Avantium’s flagship plant that will support the transition to…
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Revolution in Succinic Acid Production
A research team led by Professor Sang Yup Lee reported the production of a microbial strain capable of the massive…
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Toray Expands
Toray says the final phase of a $40 million expansion enhances its leadership role in foam innovation.
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ALPLA Builds New Plant in South Africa
Production site near Johannesburg bundles activities from five existing plants.
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Biodegradable Nonwovens for Wipes
New Carded Airlaid Carded line will make a 100% cellulose nonwoven.
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Versalis Circular Strategy
Versalis, Eni’s chemical company, has announced that all the plants at Crescentino (Vercelli, Piedmont) will be up and running by…
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First Bio-Aromatics Plant in Sight
BioBTX is able to take significant steps in its ambition to realize a commercial plant to produce platform chemicals from…
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Avantium to Build FDCA Plant in the Netherlands
Avantium, announces today that Avantium Renewable Polymers has signed a letter of intent to locate its new flagship plant at…
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Kaneka Builds 5.000 tons PHBH Plant
Kaneka has completed the capacity building of its Biodegradable Polymer PHBH at the Takasago Plant. The completion ceremony was held…
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VTT Buys Hydroprocessing Bench Scale To Fasttrack Bioeconomy
hte – the high throughput experimentation company, has supplied a customised four-fold bench scale hydroprocessing unit to VTT, a Finnish…
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Azerbaijan to Start Producing Bioplastics
Azerbaijan will build its first bioplastic plant in the High Technology Park in Pirallahi, in the outskirts of Baku, Board…
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Stora Enso Invests in Pilot Plant for Bioplastic Packaging Material
Stora Enso is investing EUR 9 million to build a pilot facility for enabling the production of bio-based plastics as…
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New Zealand Research Funding For Potential Bioplastic Plant
Research that could lead to a bioplastics plant being built in Marton, potentially creating hundreds of jobs, has received a…
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Avantium Will Build FDCA Plant With Help of BBIJU
The Bio-based Industries Joint Undertaking (BBI JU), an EU body, reconfirmed to award the PEFerence consortium, coordinated by Avantium Renewable…
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Danimer Scientific Opens First Nodax PHA Commercial Plant
Grand opening of the Danimer Scientific’s Nodax™ PHA manufacturing plant in Winchester, KY. Many employees, partners, customers and investors came…
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Avantium Set to Become World Leader in Plant-Based MEG
Avantium advances its plant-based MEG technology with the opening of its demonstration plant.
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Novamont Increases Mater-bi Production to 150,000 Tonnes
The increased production capacity (+36%) to be provided by the plant in Patrica, Lazio.
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Michelin, IFP Energies Nouvelles and Axens Construct Bio-Butadiene Protoype Plant
Axens, IFP Energies Nouvellas and Michelin have announced the construction of the first industrial-scale prototype of a plant producing butadiene from bioethanol…
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Indian Joint Venture To Start Producing Bioplastics
GUWAHATI: As the government is set to ban the use and manufacturing of single-use plastic products by October 2, the…
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Call for Partners: Use or Invest in (Biobased) Polymerization Shared Facility
Green Chemistry Campus, REWIN and Wageningen University are planning the development of the first multipurpose Polymerization Shared Facility Pilot Plant…
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Benin Will Start Producing Bioplastics
The Benin (West Africa)-based blown film manufacturer, Asahel Benin Sarl recently announced that it will produce sustainable, bio-based plastic films…
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Will BP Force Its Way Into Bioplastics?
BP Just announced a New Joint Venture with Bunge. The 50-50% JV will be called BP Bunge Bioenergia.
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Stora Enso Invests in Bio-Based Carbon Materials for Energy Storage
Stora Enso is investing EUR 10 million to build a pilot facility for producing bio-based carbon materials based on lignin.
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Biofuel Company Secures $118 Mln To Produce Bioplastics
Genera announced today it has secured more than $118 million in new investment for its first manufacturing facility to produce…
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Bioplastics Company Builds Recycling Plant
The French bioplastics biotech Carbios has raised €14.5M through a placing of shares in order to fund the construction of…
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LyondellBasell and Neste Announce Commercial-scale Production of Bio-Based Plastic
This collaboration marks the first time bio-based polypropylene and bio-based low-density polyethylene were produced simultaneously at commercial scale.
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Arkema Selects Singapore for its Bio-Sourced Polyamide Production Site
Arkema has chosen the location of Jurong Island in Singapore to build its new world-scale plant dedicated to the manufacture…
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Tailor-Made Enzymatic Solutions Reduce Time and Cost of Biorefinery Processes
Non-food, woody materials (namely lignocellulosic biomass) is the largest renewable reservoir of fermentable starches to substitute fossil fuels. It can…
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Sealed Air & Kuraray Upgrade Plant-based Food Packaging Production Facilities
Sealed Air Corporation has invested in capacity at its Simpsonville, S.C. facility to produce plant-based food packaging. This facility will…
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Alagappa University To Set Up Bioplastic Facility
The Department of Microbiology and Alagappa Institute of Skill Development, in collaboration with Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR),…
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Avantium Will Build Demonstration Plant for Third Technology Program
Avantium has decided to locate the new demonstration plant for its Mekong technology in Chemie Park Delfzijl, the Netherlands.
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Agreement between Bio-on and Innova Imagen for the production of Bioplastic in Mexico
Bio-on and Innova Imagen (Himes Group) announce the signing of a new agreement to produce ultra-green PHA biopolymers in Mexico
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EcoCortec opens bioplastic and anti-corrosion film plant in Croatia
EcoCortec has opened its first bioplastics and anticorrosion film plant in Croatia. Plant management finalized the big expansion project last…
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Despite increased production, bio-based polymers still account for only 2% of plastics consumption
Germany-based nova-Institute (Hürth) has published Bio-based Building Blocks and Polymers – Global Capacities, Production and Trends 2018-2023, which shows capacities and, for…
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Production of PHA Bioplastics in Spain
PRESS RELEASE – Strategic Agreement between Bio-On and Acor
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Futerro, Sulzer and TechnipFmc Team up to Simplify the Production of Bioplastics
Three major process technology and equipment specialists, Futerro, Sulzer and TechnipFMC, have formed the PLAnet™ partnership to promote the production…
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New Company Lux-on Will Produce PHA from CO2
PRESS RELEASE – Bio-on and Hera create Lux-on to produce bioplastic from CO2.
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The New Total Corbion PLA Factory starts Production
PRESS RELEASE – Total Corbion PLA, a 50/50 joint venture between Total and Corbion, announces the start-up of its 75,000…
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Secos is Cashing in on Bioplastics
Bioplastics company SECOS shared its quarterly financial results and bioplastics is growing strongly.
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Russia Enters Bioplastics Through Putin and Italian Connections
PRESS RELEASE – Bio-on grants bioplastic technology license to Russian group TAIF for production in Russia.
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Novamont Boost Production
Novamont increases the production capacity of its Mater-Biopolymer plant located south of Rome.
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Will the Chinese Disrupt the Bioplastics Industry?
Thyssenkrupp built the first commercial plant in China based on their patented PLA bioplastics process
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Danimer Scientific Will Open First Commercial PHA Plant
Danimer Scientific is opening a fermentation facility in Kentucky for the production of its PHA biopolymer that will be commercialised…
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Japanese Companies Expand Bioplastics Production
Japanese Companies are Increasing Bioplastics Production
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Belgium Will Build Plant to Convert Lignin and Wood into Bio-Aromatics
VITO and partners have presented a plan to build a pilot plant in Antwerp for the production of bio-aromatics from…
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FDCA and PEF Production Becomes Cheaper and Faster
German Chemists Discover a Low Cost Catalyst for FDCA. Germany Remains at the top of Bioplastics.
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India is Going for Sorghum Bioplastics
It looks like India is increasing their agricultural activities around Sorghum. Sorghum can be used for food, animal fodder, alcohol production,…
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Bio-On Confirms Italian Leadership in BioPlastics
Bio-On builds its first bioplastics plant to produce bioplastics for the cosmetics industry.
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First FDME Plant was Built in the US
The first pilot plant to produce bio-based furan dicarboxylic methyl ester (FDME) began operating last month in the US (Decatur,…
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Production capacities of Bio-based polymers by Michael Carus
10th International Conference on Bio-bases Marerials – Köln, Germany- May 10-11, 2017
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Rennovia enters pilot stage of its bio-based 1.6- hexanediol (HDO) platform, accelerating the race to bio-nylon
Rennovia, CA (USA) has successfully commissioned and is operating its pilot plant operations for its sugars to 1,6-hexanediol process. 1,6-HDO…
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Avantium completes IPO and heads for first commercial plant to produce FDCA
In the Netherlands, Avantium completed its highly-anticipated initial public offering, raising $109.5M (€103M) via the sale of 9,401,793 shares at…
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Plans Advancing for Comet’s Sarnia Cellulosic Sugar Plant
Comet Biorefining has begun detailed design work for a manufacturing plant it plans to build in Sarnia (Canada) to turn…
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Total Corbion PLA Formally Starts Up Operations
Total Corbion PLA announced on March 2, 2017 the official launch of its operations to produce and market Poly Lactic…
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S2G Biochemicals Starts Commercialization of Bio-based Glycols
S2G Biochemicals (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) announced last month that it has successfully initiated commercial production of bio-based Monopropylene Glycols (MPGs)…
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French Launch First Bio-Isobutene Plant With l’Oreal
The French public investment program PIA provides €9 million funding to Global Bioenergies and IBN-One for a bio-isobutene plant project…
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Corbion Starts New PLA Plant in 2018
In order to further accelerate market acceptance of PLA, Corbion has already sold pre‐marketing volumes of PLA.Following their positive launch…
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Growth Prospect for Bioplastics Production Capacity for Next Five Years
The global bioplastics production capacity is set to increase from around 1.7 million metric tons in 2014 to approximately 7.8…
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Another biobased dicarboxylic acid comes into commercial production, by Verdezyne
At EFIB in Brussels last month, Tom Beardslee proudly presented Verdezyne’s achievements in the production of biobased chemicals.
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Bio-On and Moore Capital Agree to Build a PHA Plant in Brazil
Bio-On sign a 2nd license agreement with Moore Capital to build a 10,000 ton PHA bioplastic production plant in Brazil…
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TerraVerdae’s Waste to PHA Production Scale-Up Completed
TerraVerdae BioWorks Inc (Canada) develops biodegradable bioplastics, specifically polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA), biobased chemicals and bioactives from environmentally sustainable, single carbon methanol…
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Turning Thistles Into Plastics – The Matrica Complex
Novamont and Versalis-ENI (Italy) opened their innovative green chemistry “Matrica” complex in Sardinia just a year ago. A new “third generation…
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Corbion Signs LOI for PLA Polymerization Plant
Corbion (NL) announces that it has signed letters of intent for one-third of the volume of a 75,000 metric Tons…
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Corbion Purac Intends to Build a 75000 Tpa PLA Production Plant
Corbion Purac ( Netherlands) will accelerate its thrust into the biotechnology arena, making the next step in the bioplastics value…
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ENI Versalis and Novamont Inaugurate First Joint Venture Plant
ENI Versalis (I) & Novamont inaugurate first plant of their joint venture Matrìca to produce plant based chemicals.
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Verdezyne Produces DDDA From Yeast
Verdezyne (USA) succeeds in producing 1 metric ton of bio-based dodecanedioic acid (DDDA) using its proprietary yeast platform.
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China BioPlastic Capacity
Focus on China’s biodegradable plastic capacity: it reportedly grew at a Compound Average Growth Rate of 21% from 2009 to…
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MetaBolix Mvera Transparent Biopolymer Film
Metabolix (USA) announces it will launch its transparent biopolymer blown film grade Mvera™ B5011 at Interpack’14 (May 8-14th at Messe-Duesseldorf…
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New Bioplastic Production Paradigm
From fire to bacteria: chemistry is gradually shifting production paradigm and moving into a new era.
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