{"id":15951,"date":"2012-07-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-30T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bio-based.eu\/news\/index.php?startid=20120731-04n"},"modified":"2012-07-31T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-07-30T22:00:00","slug":"automotive-giants-turn-to-bioplastics-worldwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/automotive-giants-turn-to-bioplastics-worldwide\/","title":{"rendered":"Automotive giants turn to bioplastics worldwide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Although attracted initially by environmental benefits, car makers and their suppliers are also asking what added functionality they can get from non-compostable, bio-based materials. One advantage is of course lighter, more cost-effective vehicles. A rule-of-thumb is that 5% less weight means average fuel savings of 3%, according to industry association Plastics Europe.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>However, weight advantages are not assured. Some &#8216;classic&#8217; bioplastics such as polylactic acid (PLA) have a higher density than their petroleum-based counterparts, the Belgium-based European Automobile Manufacturers&#8217; Association (ACEA) told European Plastics News.<\/p>\n<p><i> &#8230; Full text: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.europeanplasticsnews.com\/subscriber\/newscat2.html?cat=1&#038;channel=100&#038;id=1759\" >www.europeanplasticsnews.com\/subscriber\/newscat2.html?cat=1&#038;channel=100&#038;id=1759<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tags: soy-based, plant derived, lightweiht, cost-efficient, seat foams, natural fibre-reinforced<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b>Although attracted initially by environmental benefits, car makers and their suppliers are also asking what added functionality they can get from non-compostable, bio-based materials. One<\/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":[428,337,3724,1974,1557,166,2315,5933,238],"class_list":["post-15951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","supplier-cereplast-inc","supplier-dupont","supplier-european-automobile-manufacturers-association-acea","supplier-fiat-group-automobiles-germany-ag","supplier-ford-motor-company","supplier-mazda-motor-corporation","supplier-nnfcc","supplier-plasticseurope","supplier-toyota"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15951","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=15951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15951"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=15951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}