{"id":15728,"date":"2012-04-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bio-based.eu\/news\/index.php?startid=20120417-05n"},"modified":"2012-04-17T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-16T22:00:00","slug":"bio-based-vinyls-may-cost-less","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/bio-based-vinyls-may-cost-less\/","title":{"rendered":"Bio-Based Vinyls May Cost Less"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Vinyl compounds that incorporate bio-based plasticizers to make them flexible are equal or better in performance to their traditional counterparts based on petrochemicals, but may be more cost-effective. Custom plastics compounder Teknor Apex introduced the new materials at the NPE2012 show in Orlando, Fla.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The BioVinyl flexible vinyl compounds incorporate DOW ECOLIBRIUM bio-based plasticizers, which are phthalate-free. The vinyl compounds have a smaller carbon footprint than alternative plastics like polyolefins or polyurethanes, and may also be more cost-efficient than plant-based polymers.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8230; Full Text: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.designnews.com\/document.asp?f_src=designnews%5Fgnews&#038;dfpPParams=ind%5F183%2Cindustry%5Falt%2Cindustry%5Fconsumer%2Cindustry%5Fmachinery%2Cindustry%5Fmedical%2Caid%5F242133&#038;dfpPParams=ind%5F183%2Cindustry%5Falt%2Cindustry%5Fconsumer%2Cindustry%5Fmachinery%2Cindustry%5Fmedical%2Caid%5F242133&#038;dfpLayout=article&#038;dfpLayout=article&#038;doc_id=242133&#038;page_number=1\" >http:\/\/www.designnews.com\/document.asp?f_src=designnews%5Fgnews&#038;dfpPParams=ind%5F183%2Cindustry%5Falt%2Cindustry%5Fconsumer%2Cindustry%5Fmachinery%2Cindustry%5Fmedical%2Caid%5F242133&#038;dfpPParams=ind%5F183%2Cindustry%5Falt%2Cindustry%5Fconsumer%2Cindustry%5Fmachinery%2Cindustry%5Fmedical%2Caid%5F242133&#038;dfpLayout=article&#038;dfpLayout=article&#038;doc_id=242133&#038;page_number=1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tags: BioVinyl, DOW ECOLIBRIUM bio-based plasticizers<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b>Vinyl compounds that incorporate bio-based plasticizers to make them flexible are equal or better in performance to their traditional counterparts based on petrochemicals, but may<\/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":[372,2903,1932],"class_list":["post-15728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","supplier-dow-chemical-company","supplier-dow-electrical-telecommunications","supplier-teknor-apex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15728","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=15728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15728"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=15728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}