{"id":153861,"date":"2024-11-18T07:15:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-18T06:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=153861"},"modified":"2024-11-15T13:09:25","modified_gmt":"2024-11-15T12:09:25","slug":"teijin-frontier-announces-global-availability-of-biodegradable-biofront-pla-resin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/teijin-frontier-announces-global-availability-of-biodegradable-biofront-pla-resin\/","title":{"rendered":"Teijin Frontier Announces Global Availability of Biodegradable BIOFRONT\u00ae PLA Resin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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BIOFRONT\u00ae resin pellets \u00a9 Teijin Frontier Co., LTD.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Teijin Frontier Co., Ltd., today announced the global availability of its BIOFRONT\u00ae polylactic acid (PLA) resin, which biodegrades faster in oceans, rivers and soil compared to conventional PLA products. Incorporation of a novel biodegradation accelerator in the polymer can enhance its decomposition rate without significantly compromising strength, crystallinity or moldability. This resin, named to signify cutting-edge biotechnology, is now fully commercialized in Japan and internationally.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

BIOFRONT\u00ae resin aligns with Teijin Frontier\u2019s THINK ECO\u00ae environmental strategy and joins the company\u2019s wide range of sustainable materials and products. Teijin Frontier plans to continue developing biodegradable materials to help reduce the environmental impact of plastics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Features and benefits of BIOFRONT\u00ae resin<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The resin\u2019s biodegradation accelerator promotes hydrolysis and speeds up material consumption and decomposition by bacteria and fungi compared to PLA polymers without additives. BIOFRONT\u00ae resin exhibits rapid biodegradation performance even in marine, riverine and soil environments, where there are fewer bacteria and fungi than in high-temperature, high-humidity composting systems. Further, the decomposition period can be controlled by adjusting the loading and incorporation parameters of the accelerator. Accordingly, the decomposition period can be adjusted to the required lifetime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another advantage of BIOFRONT\u00ae resin is its ability to be processed like conventional PLA polymer resins used in films and injection-molded and extruded products. It can also be used for fibers in textiles and non-woven fabrics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From the standpoint of sustainability, BIOFRONT\u00ae PLA resin is expected to help reduce microplastics, thanks to its accelerated biodegradation rate, and to reduce CO2 emissions during the product lifecycle since it is made from plant-derived raw materials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Teijin Frontier Co., Ltd., today announced the global availability of its BIOFRONT\u00ae polylactic acid (PLA) resin, which biodegrades faster in oceans, rivers and soil compared to conventional PLA products. Incorporation of a novel biodegradation accelerator in the polymer can enhance its decomposition rate without significantly compromising strength, crystallinity or moldability. This resin, named to signify […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":153863,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","nova_meta_subtitle":"This resin, named to signify cutting-edge biotechnology, is now fully commercialized in Japan and internationally","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[16380,11270,5838,18908,10416,20929,12516],"supplier":[20413],"class_list":["post-153861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bio-based","tag-biobased","tag-biodegradability","tag-bioeconomy","tag-biopla","tag-circulareconomy","tag-polylacticacid","tag-resin","supplier-teijin-frontier-co-ltd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153861","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\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153861"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=153861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}