{"id":14131,"date":"2006-05-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-25T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bio-based.eu\/news\/index.php?startid=20060526-06n"},"modified":"2006-05-26T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-25T22:00:00","slug":"biop-grows-biopolymer-production-capacity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/biop-grows-biopolymer-production-capacity\/","title":{"rendered":"BIOP grows biopolymer production capacity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Biopolymer producer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biopag.de\/\" >BIOP Biopolymer Technologies<\/a> is expanding production at its plant at Schwarzheide, Germany, to reach an annual capacity of 17,000 tonnes by the middle of next year.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>BIOP chief executive officer Frits de Jong said: &#8220;9,000tpa will become immediately available in October and around 17,000 tonnes will be available to the market from mid 2007.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Two further construction stages will enable overall production capacity to be taken to a planned 100,00tpa, he said.<\/p>\n<p>BIOP produces the Biopar family of biopolymers, which are derived from blends of potato starch and Ecoflex biodegradable aliphatic aromatic copolyesters, which are manufactured by BASF at Schwarzheide.<\/p>\n<p>Biopar production was transferred to Schwarzheide from the Netherlands in October 2005. The company has supplied Biopar products to a number of Dutch retailers, including Albert Heijn, Schuitema and C 1000.<\/p>\n<p>The latest developments in biopolymer markets will be explored at EPN\u2019s eighth Biopolymers conference, which takes place in Frankfurt on 6-7 December. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b>Biopolymer producer BIOP Biopolymer Technologies is expanding production at its plant at Schwarzheide, Germany, to reach an annual capacity of 17,000 tonnes by the middle<\/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-14131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14131","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=14131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14131"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=14131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}