{"id":13957,"date":"2005-07-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-03T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bio-based.eu\/news\/index.php?startid=20050704-08n"},"modified":"2005-07-04T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-07-03T22:00:00","slug":"cell-phones-bodies-made-from-corn-and-fibers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/cell-phones-bodies-made-from-corn-and-fibers\/","title":{"rendered":"Cell Phones Bodies Made from Corn and Fibers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Industry giant <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nec.com\/\" >NEC<\/a>, and textile make, Unikita are working together to develop cell phones bodies made from 90% corn.<\/p>\n<p>The two firms successfully reinforced a polyactide resin, a bio-plastic made mainly from corn, by adding in fibers of kenaf, which is a type of hemp, the spokespeople said.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Polyactide resin is an eco-friendly material as it can bio-degrade after being in the soil for a long time but the use of the material had been limited because it\u2019s subject to heat and shock,\u201d said Unitika spokesperson Yutaka Imura.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But this new material is tough enough to be used for mobile phone bodies, which require considerable strength and heat resistance,\u201d Imura said.<br \/>The two companies plan to mass-produce the material within a year for shipments of cellphones to be produced by NEC, the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>(Cf. news from <a href=\"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/necs-biodegradable-corn-based-laptops\/\" >Sept 16, 2004<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/computer-und-walkman-aus-bio-kunststoffen\/\" >Oct 08, 2002<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b>Industry giant NEC, and textile make, Unikita are working together to develop cell phones bodies made from 90% corn.<\/p>\n<p>The two firms successfully reinforced<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[],"supplier":[],"class_list":["post-13957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13957"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=13957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}