{"id":15879,"date":"2012-05-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-07T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bio-based.eu\/news\/index.php?startid=20120508-06n"},"modified":"2012-05-08T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-07T22:00:00","slug":"natureworks-plan-expands-pla-efforts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/natureworks-plan-expands-pla-efforts\/","title":{"rendered":"NatureWorks plan expands PLA efforts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>The spate of recent product announcements, where NatureWorks LLC\u2019s Ingeo PLA resin is combined with an existing resin, reflects a strategy that NatureWorks plans to use more and more. The strategy suggests that the polylactic acid bio-based resin is no longer just a niche product.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are clearly broadening our product strategy beyond [pure] PLA resins,\u201d said Marc Verbruggen, president and CEO of the Minnetonka, Minn.-based company. &#8220;When you combine PLA with other resins, you can broaden the properties of the resin and broaden your product portfolio. It is the best way to get into broader categories.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8230; Full Text: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plasticsnews.com\/headlines2.html?id=25379#.T6l399tJCdY.twitter\" >www.plasticsnews.com\/headlines2.html?id=25379#.T6l399tJCdY.twitter<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tags: bio-based resin, PLA resins, biodegradable food-service products , PLA plant<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b>The spate of recent product announcements, where NatureWorks LLC&rsquo;s Ingeo PLA resin is combined with an existing resin, reflects a strategy that NatureWorks plans to<\/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":[2241,1180,230,2518,1009,103,21310,1775,7859,455],"class_list":["post-15879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","supplier-altuglas-international","supplier-bioamber-inc","supplier-cargill-inc","supplier-danone-gmbh","supplier-mitsubishi-chemical","supplier-natureworks-llc","supplier-nestle","supplier-pepsico","supplier-pttgc","supplier-unilever"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15879","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=15879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15879"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=15879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}