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Developments in bio-based plastics – backed by investment in new production plants – continue to flourish, especially for applications in food packaging
Natural means: latest in bio-based plastics
Applications in bio-based-plastics – particularly in food packaging – continue to grow, as consumers and legislation demand more sustainable performance. Neste and Mitsui Chemicals recently used bio-based materials to make more sustainable food packaging solutions for Co-op, a brand of the Japanese Consumers Co-operative Union (JCCU). In the first phase of the collaboration, bio-based
raw materials will replace their fossil equivalents to make packaging for a seaweed snack. In future, the companies intend to use the packaging for other products.
“Change begins with small things – in this case,
slices of dried seaweed,” said Lilyana Budyanto, head of sustainable partnerships for APAC in Neste’s renewable polymers and chemicals division.
Neste supplies its Neste RE, a polymer feedstock for made from bio-based raw materials. Through Mitsui Chemicals, the feedstock is processed into
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renewable polypropylene (PP) – under the brand name Prasus – then turned into food packaging for JCCU.
PLA for oils AD Bioplastics has used its new PLA-based material for a compostable single-use packaging for extra virgin olive oil. The packaging, for oils and dressings producer
Capricho Andaluz, is made from the company’s new PLA-Premium material, which was first show- cased at Interpack last year.
“It is bio-based – because it comes from natural
products such as corn, sugar cane or sugar beet – and compostable, as it disintegrates in a maxi- mum of three months under industrial conditions,” said Pablo Delfino, business development manager at AD Bioplastics. PLA-Premium is composed of a virgin PLA and the company’s ADBio PLA+ impact modifier – which, it says, enhances PLA’s mechanical proper-
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Main image: AD Bioplastics’s new PLA material is used for composta- ble packaging for olive oil
IMAGE: AD BIOPLASTICS
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