{"id":14006,"date":"2006-03-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-07T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bio-based.eu\/news\/index.php?startid=20060308-14n"},"modified":"2006-03-08T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-07T22:00:00","slug":"biopolymers-match-the-price-of-oil-based-plastics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/biopolymers-match-the-price-of-oil-based-plastics\/","title":{"rendered":"Biopolymers match the price of oil-based plastics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Biopolymer price levels are now competitive with those for resins based on petroleum feedstock, the chief executive of corn-based polymer maker Cereplast told a US conference on Monday.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This industry\u2019s time has arrived,\u201d Frederic Scheer declared at the National Corn Growers Association Annual Conference.<\/p>\n<p>Advances in nanotechnology that the US firm has introduced into its process coupled with polymer processing advantages through lower temperatures support Cereplast\u2019s confidence in the viability of the bioplastics market.<\/p>\n<p>Scheer told the conference that current price levels for base resins based on conventional oil feedstocks lies between $0.62 and $1.60 a pound (\u00a3780-\u00a32010 a tonne) while those for bioplastics range from $0.60 to $1.62 a pound (\u00a3755-\u00a32040 a tonne).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This means that the bio-based plastics world has now progressed to an era of pricing parity with traditional petro-based plastics feedstock,\u201d Scheer said.<\/p>\n<p>California-based Cereplast is expanding its capacity, moving into larger premises. &#8220;Our plans are to double our capacity by the summer of 2006, so we are acquiring new and more efficient equipment,\u201d Scheer announced last month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b>Biopolymer price levels are now competitive with those for resins based on petroleum feedstock, the chief executive of corn-based polymer maker Cereplast told a US<\/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-14006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14006","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=14006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14006"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=14006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}