Teknor presents new family of colour concentrates for PLA biopolymer applications

Rohm and Haas presents new Paraloid additive to enhance PLA melt strength

Dupondt / Tenue en température améliorée du PLLA

Conférence / polychar17 / Rouen / 20-24/04/2009

Le prochain colloque POLYCHAR (n°17) qui se tiendra à Rouen du 20 au 24 avril 2009

C’est un congrès international consacré aux matériaux avancés et principalement (mais pas exclusivement) aux polymères et composites à matrice polymère
Les derniers ont eu lieu (en remontant) le temps : en Inde, au Japon, au Brésil, au Portugal, aux Etats Unis.
lien internet de l’annonce
http://www.polychar17.com

voir ci-dessous les présentations en lien avec les bioplastiques

Conférence / Polymerix 28-29 Mai 2009 / Rennes

http://www.cbb-developpement.com/polymerix2009/

Site de vulgarisation sur les plantes à fibres

terrrrrible !

http://plantes-a-fibres.goum.info/index.php?option=com_content&view=frontpage&Itemid=100001

Services Études Recherches Polymères Biodégradables Serpbio Services Etudes Recherches Polymères Biodégradables / Nantes

L’association SERPBIO est née en février 2005 de la volonté de quelques universitaires et industriels de fédérer un ensemble de compétences dans le domaine des matériaux biodégradables.

Bioplastic magazine / sujets abordés en 2009

The new issue of bioplastics MAGAZINE is coming soon !

The Jan/Feb issue is scheduled to focus on ‘Automotive applications” as well as ‘foam’. And we’ll have a closer look on ‘the basics of PLA.

Du nouveau du côté des mousses bio / Purac et Pyramid

Les lettres Mag’MAT / Les agromatériaux à l’honneur / à lire absoluement

Voici la lettre 28 de Mag’MAT téléchargeable à cette adresse

NOVAMONT Le Roi Du Bioplastique Agricole !

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Très intéressant, un historique du MaterBi de Novamont

A l’heure où des volontés politiques se manifestent pour promouvoir le bioplastique, le leader européen poursuit ses efforts pour répondre à la demande. Après avoir doublé sa capacité de production en se rapprochant du monde agricole sur le sol italien, il mise sur des partenariats dans l’Hexagone. Les éclairages de Christophe Doukhi de Boissoudy, responsable de Novamont France.

Le bioplastique en haut de l’affiche avec Toyota

Le plus grand constructeur mondial va mettre les bioplastiques au premier plan, mais c’est de l’information qu’on attend.
http://www.moteurnature.com/actu/uneactu.php?news_id=23939

Bilan carbone favorable aux barquettes en PLA / www.emballagesmagazine.com

http://www.emballagesmagazine.com/article/page_article.cfm?nrub=272&idoc=155022&navartrech=1

Ce bioplastique émet moins de gaz à effet de serre que le RPET et le PET vierge d’après une étude de l’IFEU.

Bioamber Announces World’s First Bio-based Succinic Acid Plant: Helping to Reduce Dependence on Fossil Fuels

On sait que l’acide succinique peut être utile pour réaliser du PBS par exemple, d’où l’intérêt de ce billet sur le future pilote de Bioamber à Pomacle en France.

Dec 16, 2008 – BiobasedNews.com

Green” Polyethylene Project Approved by Braskem Eco-friendly packaging material program will begin production phase

Packaging Digest, 12/18/2008
http://www.packagingdigest.com/article/CA6623960.html

Braskem, the leading company in the thermoplastic resins industry in Latin America and third-largest resin producer in the Americas, announces that its Board of Directors has approved the Green Polyethylene Project. This project, for which investment of $500R million was approved, will produce ethylene and polyethylene from sugarcane ethanol, with operational startup scheduled for 2011 at the Southern Petrochemical Complex in Rio Grande do Sul state.

NatureWorks LLC Introduces New Injection Molding Grade of Resin: Ingeo™ 3251D

New Grade Provides an Innovative, “Green” Solution for Consumer Goods Manufacturers

MINNETONKA, Minn. – Dec. 17, 2008 NatureWorks LLC is launching Ingeo™ 3251D, a new and improved injection molding grade of Ingeo™ biopolymer. This new Ingeo™ grade has been designed specifically for the consumer goods segments such as electronics, cosmetics, housewares, toys and custom molding.

http://www.cargill.com/news/news_releases/081217_natureworks.htm

Les bioplastiques ne sont pas seulement compostables ! / cas des PHA

Metabolix Announces that Mirel™ Bioplastic Resins are Certified to European Vinçotte Biodegradability for Soil and Fresh Water Standards

http://ir.metabolix.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=344306

Les bioplastiques ne sont pas seulement compostables ! / Cas du PLLA

Bioplastics ‘must go beyond composting’
Leading polylactic acid (PLA) polymer producer Natureworks called this month on European bioplastics producers to think beyond composting as the sole end-of-life waste option for their materials.

“Quite often today we see bioplastics equalling compostable plastics. We really have to get rid of that impression,” Natureworks environmental affairs manager Erwin Vink told delegates at the European Plastics News Bioplastics 2008 conference in Munich last week.

Traditional composting is just one of many solutions for the end-of-life treatment of compostable bioplastics, he told the conference, and even where it is an available option it is not always the best one.

Bio-based nanotechnology materials for a green society

Bio-based nanotechnology materials for a green society

Isogai, a professor in the Laboratory of Cellulose, Pulp and Paper Science at the Department of Biomaterial Sciences, University of Tokyo, together with his team, have used their cellulose-based nanofibers to fabricate transparent gels and thin films that have remarkably high-oxygen barrier capability (which, according to Isogai, is a really unexpected result), high optical transparency, high strength and a quite low coefficient of thermal expansivity, caused by high crystallinity of native cellulose.The scientists reported their findings in the December 4, 2008 online edition of Biomacromolecules (“Transparent and High Gas Barrier Films of Cellulose Nanofibers Prepared by TEMPO-Mediated Oxidation”).

Publication / ACS / Macromolecules / Polymers from Renewable Resources: A Challenge for the Future of Macromolecular Materials

Polymers from Renewable Resources: A Challenge for the Future of Macromolecular Materials

Alessandro Gandini†

Macromolecules, 2008, 41 (24), pp

SIGNIFICANT PROPERTY IMPROVEMENT OF PLASTIC MADE FROM CARBON DIOXIDE

Significant Property Improvement of Plastic Made From Carbon Dioxide
- Poly(propylene carbonate) composite surpassing general-purpose polymers in elastic modulus -

http://www.aist.go.jp/aist_e/latest_research/2008/20081226/20081226.html

Baylor Researchers Create Car Parts From Coconuts

Baylor Researchers Create Car Parts From Coconuts
Dec. 9, 2008

A team of Baylor University researchers who have identified a variety of low-cost products that can be manufactured from coconuts in poor coastal regions have now developed a way to use coconut husks in automotive interiors.

Publication / ACS / Marcomolecules / One-Pot Synthesis of α,ω-Chain End Functional, Stereoregular, Star-Shaped Poly(lactide)

One-Pot Synthesis of α,ω-Chain End Functional, Stereoregular, Star-Shaped Poly(lactide)

Matthew J. Stanford and Andrew P. Dove

Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, U.K.

Macromolecules, 2009, 42 (1), pp 141–147

Publication / ACS / Macromolecules / Metal-Catalyzed Radical Polyaddition for Aliphatic Polyesters via Evolution of Atom Transfer Radical Addition into Step-Growth Polymerization

Metal-Catalyzed Radical Polyaddition for Aliphatic Polyesters via Evolution of Atom Transfer Radical Addition into Step-Growth Polymerization

Masato Mizutani, Kotaro Satoh and Masami Kamigaito

Macromolecules, 2009, 42 (2), pp 472–480

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ma802067c?journalCode=mamobx

Des bouteilles de Coca-cola… compostables ?

SEATTLE – The Coca-Cola Company has just shaken up the world’s waste stream.

The world’s largest soft drink manufacturer is going compostable, and students at the University of Washington are getting the first taste of history.

Clemson research boosts biodegradable plastics

The plastic bottles you are drinking from could soon be made from corn instead of petroleum, with research at Clemson University making biodegradable plastic more applicable for widespread uses, experts say.
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Bioplastics now are in uses from gift cards to food containers to cell phone casings, says Steve Davies of NatureWorks, which developed one of the first plant-based plastics.

Researchers at Clemson have found solutions to some of the drawbacks of this type of plastic.

Online Course / Natural Fibers & Biocomposites / Presented by Kevin Thomson

Lancement d’une nouvelle rubrique dans bioplastic magazine

Almost every day new products made from bioplastics materials are launched to the market.

That’s why bioplastics MAGAZINE recently started with an new section or rubric: Application News.

Publication / Science Direct / Polymer / Super-tough poly(lactic acid) materials: Reactive blending with ethylene copolymer

Super-tough poly(lactic acid) materials: Reactive blending with ethylene copolymer

Hideko T. Oyam

Polymer
Volume 50, Issue 3, 28 January 2009, Pages 747-751

Bayer MaterialScience at COMPOSITES+POLYCON: Bayer MaterialScience LLC showcases innovative materials, technologies and applications at annual ACMA Conference

Tampa, Fla., January 15, 2009 — Whether they’re looking for the latest developments in polyurethane chemistry or processing, nanotechnology or sustainable applications for polyurethane composites, attendees at COMPOSITES+POLYCON, sponsored by the American Composites Manufacturers Association, will be able to find it – and more – at Bayer MaterialScience LLC’s booth.

Innovative Bioplastic Packaging Materials to be showcased at AUSPACK 209

Innovative Bioplastic Packaging Materials to be showcased at AUSPACK 209
Jan 21, 2009 – BiobasedNews.com

With the introduction of the new Bioplastics Pavilion at AUSPACK 2009 visitors will have the opportunity to see demonstrations on what type of bio-based materials and products are available today to improve one’s carbon footprint.

CGL PAck / Spécialiste de l’emballage thermoformé

http://www.cglpack.com/

écoconception, utilisation de matériaux biodégrdables et/ou biosourçés … un site très bien fait en plus, à voir absoluement.

Innovia Films Launch NatureFlex NK Film for Food Wrappers

Une super tenue à l’eau en prime !

Le site de Symphony Polymers / distributeurs de films additivés par des oxo-dégradation

http://www.symphonypolymers.com/index.htm

A ne pas confondre avec le distributeur d’additifs d’oxo-dégradation “Symphony Plastics“

Fully biodegradable nanocomposite plastic

Les chercheurs de l’Université des Sciences de la ville d’Ho-Chi-Minh sur la mise au point d’un matériau biodégradable pour la réalisation de sacs plastiques. Le plastique, un nanocomposite, se dégrade en 3 à 6 mois. Le matériau est un mélange de polymère à base d’amidon, d’alcool polyvinylique (PVA), de nanoargile, et d’additifs alimentaires.

Le coût du matériau serait inférieur de 30 % au matériau importé à base de polymères fossiles.

Nanowerk du 10/01/2009
http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=8833.php

Bilan carbone favorable aux barquettes en PLA

Le résultat d’une étude de l’Institute for energy and environnemental research (IFEU) montre qu’une barquette PLA émet, tout au long de son cycle de vie 49,2 kg de CO2 contre 58,6 kg pour une barquette en PET recyclé. L’étude prend en compte la fabrication du polymère, la transformation, le transport et la valorisation : 0,93 gigajoules, contre 1,1 pour le PET recyclé.

Emballages Magazine du 06/01/2009
http://www.emballagesmagazine.com/article/page_article.cfm?idoc=155022&navartrech=3&id_site_rech=12&maxrow=290&home=home&xtor=EPR-16