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Flexible Food Packaging Market Growing in Asia

Packaging is an intrinsic part of food in modern urban life. It is also vital for export as it protects the contents and ensures that quality products reach the consumer. Growth in the flexible plastic packaging market for food is a function of the growth of the food and food processing industry and growth in food exports

25 May 2009

Food, Biofuels and Materials Can All Be Produced in Sufficient Quantities

Science will enable farmers to produce enough grain to meet the growing demand for food, biofuels and materials if pubic and private agriculture enterprises, regulators and policymakers from around the globe take a more holistic approach to the solution

19 Apr 2009

FRX Polymers Develops Environmentally Friendly, Flame Retardant Polymer

A technology developed by FRX Polymers, Inc. for producing engineering thermoplastics that are inherently flame retardant and environmentally friendly has received the first-place award in the Clean Technology Business Forum and Competition

15 Mar 2009

Future Biorefinery to Transform Biomass and Forest Industries in Finland

Future Biorefinery, a research programme by Forestcluster Ltd., will create a new competence platform in processing of wood biomass and thus, stimulate the transformation of the forest cluster in Finland

2 Mar 2009

Twenty Million Tonnes of Plastic Destined For Landfill Set For Replacement by Plant Based Plastics

Results from a new University of Missouri study suggest that some of the largely petroleum-based plastic may soon be replaced by a nonpolluting, renewable plastic made from plants

12 Feb 2009

Finalists Named in CleanTech Business Innovations Awards

The Plastics Environmental Division of the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE) is pleased to announce the finalists for a competition at the Clean Technology Business Forum to be held during SPE's Global Plastics Environmental Conference

4 Feb 2009

Bioplastics Award Goes to DuPont for High Performance Materials From Renewable Sources

DuPont recently received the 2008 European Bioplastics Product Line Strategy Award from Frost and Sullivan - a leading market consulting company - for its accomplishments in rapidly developing an extremely diverse range of high-performance materials based on renewable sources

6 Jan 2009

BioSolar to Commercially Produce Photovoltaic Solar Cells from Biobased Materials

BioSolar developer of a breakthrough technology to produce bio-based materials from renewable plant sources that reduce the cost of photovoltaic solar cells, today announced that the company expects to begin commercial production of its BioBacksheet over the next few months

10 Nov 2008

Bioplastic Resins from Metabolix Get Biodegradability Certification

Metabolix has announced that Mirel bioplastic resins produced by Telles have received the European conformity certification of OK Biodegradable Soil for natural soil biodegradability and OK Biodegradable Water& for fresh water biodegradability

30 Oct 2008

Biorenewable Chemicals, Green Energy and Smart Lighting to Benefit From New Engineering Research Centers

Five new research centers will pursue innovations in biorenewable chemicals, green energy systems, communications networks, medical implants and smart lighting

6 Oct 2008