Polylactic Acid
VistaTek creates manufacturing company for specialty line to manufacture plates, bowls and other items from plant-based plastics.
At major league ballparks across the country, teams are increasingly using and promoting the use of compostable plastics and recycling as part of a move to reduce the amount of refuse going to landfills, which in turn lowers their operating costs.
U.S.-based Calysta Energy Inc. and NatureWorks LLC have announced research collaboration looking at the transformation of methane into the lactic acid building blocks needed to produce bioplastics.
Last year NatureWorks LLC marked 1 billion pounds of its Ingeo polylactic acid resin sold. It is near capacity at its original production plant in Blair, Neb., and in the final stages of planning the location of its second plant, likely to be in Thailand and looks to expand quiickly.
CHICAGO — Three-dimensional printers using the fused deposition molding (FDM) process could pose a health risk to operators, according to researchers from the Illinois Institute of Technology in the U.S. and the National Institute of Applied Sciences in Lyon, France.
ANAHEIM, CALIF. -- The partners behind a modified polylactic acid compound said they anticipate approval from the Food and Drug Administration this month and a start of Tribio production by mid-2013.
BANGKOK — While many places struggle to get bioplastics into the mainstream, strong government action has helped Taiwan quietly become one of the top spots worldwide for manufacturing products from polylactic acid resin.
BANGKOK — NatureWorks LLC has launched its first Asia-Pacific regional headquarters in Bangkok and has expanded its team in the region.
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