{"id":14263,"date":"2006-09-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-05T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bio-based.eu\/news\/index.php?startid=20060906-05n"},"modified":"2006-09-06T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-05T22:00:00","slug":"bioplastics-producers-prepare-for-price-rises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/bioplastics-producers-prepare-for-price-rises\/","title":{"rendered":"Bioplastics producers prepare for price rises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Users of bioplastics should prepare for double-digit percentage price rises in the near future as the impact of rising energy prices begins to bite.<br \/><\/b><br \/>US bioplastics market leader <a href=\"http:\/\/www.natureworksllc.com\/corporate\/nw_pack_home.asp\" >NatureWorks<\/a>, a subsidiary of Cargill, is beginning a price push that could see prices for some of its PLA resin users increase by up to 20%.<\/p>\n<p>Natureworks global commercial director Snehal Desai said the increases will be based on volume off-take and will not be across the board. However, he acknowledges that the company\u2019s manufacturing model is &#8220;not immune\u201d to rising energy prices.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.materbi.com\/\" >Novamont<\/a>, the leading European player in the bioplastics sector, has not asked for higher prices yet. But the company\u2019s new business development manager Stefano Facco says energy prices do have an influence on its economics.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At the moment we are not planning (price rises) but we are evaluating over the next two or three weeks how our costs will increase,\u201d he told PRW.com.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.basf.com\/\" >BASF<\/a> has also announced a 20% price increase for its Ecoflex biodegradable polymer. Ecoflex, which is produced from petrochemical feedstocks, is used as a performance modifier in some PLA blends.<\/p>\n<p>The global market for biopolymers will be analysed in detail at EPN\u2019s 8th Bioplastics conference in Frankfurt in December. For more information about the conference and the first Bioplastics Awards, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bpevent.com\/\" >www.bpevent.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b>Users of bioplastics should prepare for double-digit percentage price rises in the near future as the impact of rising energy prices begins to bite.<br \/><\/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-14263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14263","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=14263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14263"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=14263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}