{"id":15877,"date":"2012-05-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-07T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bio-based.eu\/news\/index.php?startid=20120517-02n"},"modified":"2012-05-08T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-07T22:00:00","slug":"new-patent-for-hallgreen-modifiers-from-hallstar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/new-patent-for-hallgreen-modifiers-from-hallstar\/","title":{"rendered":"New Patent for HallGreen Modifiers from HallStar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>The HallStar Company was awarded U.S. Patent Number 8,158,731, titled &#8220;Biopolymer Compositions Having Improved Flexibility,\u201d from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) on April 17, 2012. The patent applies to novel, bio-based polymeric additives, which are derived from renewable feedstocks and provide unique benefits to biopolymer processors.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Of particular note, HALLGREEN R-8010 is a new, bio-based polymeric succinate that improves the flexibility and pliability of biopolymers including polylactic acid (PLA), starch-based polymers, polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA), and polyhydoxybutyrate (PHB); while maintaining long-term compatibility.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Brittleness can be a real problem with biopolymer products,&#8221; said Robert Hu, HallStar Vice President, R&#038;D. &#8220;HALLGREEN R-8010 enhances the flexibility and pliability of compounds and end products, and it provides tangible benefits at customers\u2019 manufacturing facilities by increasing throughput and reducing energy consumption.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Test results show that performance benefits can be seen at concentrations as low as 10 percent. When used at 30% loading levels, HALLGREEN R-8010 provides performance benefits that include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tenfold increase in elongation percentage at break\n<\/li>\n<li>Five-percent reduction in tensile strength\n<\/li>\n<li>Five-percent reduction in tensile at break<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In addition, HALLGREEN R-8010 increases the melt flow index, which can increase throughput and reduce melt temperature and energy consumption in customers&#8217; manufacturing facilities.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The HALLGREEN line has become the go-to modifiers for customers that need environmentally friendly esters,\u201d said John Paro, HallStar Chairman, President, &#038; CEO. &#8220;As industry continues to develop and improve sustainable products, we expect the reliance on our high-performance renewable ester plasticizers will continue to grow.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b>The HallStar Company was awarded U.S. Patent Number 8,158,731, titled &#8220;Biopolymer Compositions Having Improved Flexibility,&rdquo; from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) on April<\/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":[3504,3026],"class_list":["post-15877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","supplier-hallstar","supplier-united-states-patent-and-trademark-office-uspto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15877","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=15877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15877"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=15877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}