NatureWorks Ingeo has been awarded the first four-star rating from the Vinçotte OK biobased certification board for its innovative product, the Natureworks Ingeo polymer.
Umbria Olii International introduces a worldwide first - compostable soap wrapping. This bio-film is based on FKuR’s Bio-Flex® and is used for the packaging of “Ecolive“ laundry soap.
Crash-test dummies could soon be facing vehicle collision tests in cars padded with cork rather than traditional materials such as polymer foams or porous aluminium metal, according to Portuguese engineers writing in the International Journal of Materials Engineering.
In a paper published in the American Chemical Society journal, Macromolecules, scientists from IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Stanford University detail discoveries that could lead to the development of new types of biodegradable, biocompatible plastics. The result of a multi-year research effort, the breakthrough also could lead to a new recycling process that has the potential to significantly increase the ability to recycle and reuse.
Scientists at the BBSRC Sustainable Bioenergy Centre are analyzing how miniature marine gribble isopods eat and digest wood that is supposedly indigestible. These wood-eating creatures destroy docks and wooden piers in coastal regions and the wooden components aboard ships, thus becoming a seafarer’s nightmare. The scientists analyzed gribble gut genes and understood that the digestive systems of these creatures contain enzymes that are capable of indicating a solution for converting straw and wood into liquid biofuels.
The Lorraine Regional Council has joined forces with Arkema and two university laboratories to back a research program into "biobased acrylics", the challenge of the project being to offer new "green" acrylic acid derivatives and develop a biosourced chemical activity in the Lorraine region.
Europe's research driven clusters in sustainable forest management and wood based industries got new co-operation opportunities within the ROKFOR project which started 23 February 2010. This cooperative action project ‘Sustainable Forest Management Providing Renewable Energy, Sustainable Construction and Bio-based Products' (ROKFOR) will join forces in which five European regions in order to create both individual and regional research agendas and action plans in the fields of renewable energy, bio-based products and sustainable construction.
Ecology Coatings, Inc. (BULLETIN BOARD: ECOC) , a leader in the discovery and development of nanotechnology-enabled, ultraviolet-curable advanced coatings, today announced it has developed bio-based materials for use in a new family of EcoQuik(TM) UV-curable coatings. Products incorporating bio-based additives are being used in commercial development applications that exhibit enhanced curing speed, pigment coverage and useful surface effects.
The Plastics Environmental Division of the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE) has announced the six finalists in the Clean Technology Business Forum & Competition to be held at next month’s Global Plastics Environmental Conference (GPEC) 2010.
Biopack Environmental Solutions Inc. (OTCBB: BPAC), a designer, manufacturer, and supplier of 100% biodegradable packaging products, is pleased to announce that it has entered into a purchase order (“PO”) agreement to buy up to 10 custom designed, fully automated “Bio-Coating” machines. Capable of coating up to 47 million pieces a year per machine, each one could increase production capacity by over 15 times the current coated tray production rate, allowing Biopack to accept significantly larger orders.
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