{"id":160693,"date":"2025-04-01T07:20:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T05:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=160693"},"modified":"2025-03-26T13:58:06","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T12:58:06","slug":"gaia-biomaterials-takes-aim-at-brazilian-market-huge-demand-for-sustainable-alternatives-to-plastic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/gaia-biomaterials-takes-aim-at-brazilian-market-huge-demand-for-sustainable-alternatives-to-plastic\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaia Biomaterials takes aim at Brazilian market: \u201cHuge demand for sustainable alternatives to plastic\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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\u00a9 MFI Polymers<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Gaia Biomaterials has appointed MFI Polymers as their commercial representative in Brazil. The company \u00eds headed by Dr. Mercia Fernandes who holds a PhD in Polymer Science and specializes in sustainable polymer solutions.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gaia Biomaterials from Sweden produce Biodolomer \u2013 a limestone based alternative to plastic that is fully compostable and leaves no microplastics.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThe Brazilian market for sustainable alternatives to fossil plastic is huge\u201d, says Dr. Fernandes.<\/strong>\u201cThe size of the country makes it difficult to create an infrastructure for recycling, and therefore, there is a big interest in compostable solutions \u2013 such as Biodolomer.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Fernandes has a lengthy academic background in polymers and has focused her research on sustainability and degradable materials for several years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cWhen I found Gaia Biomaterials, it was what I had always looked for \u2014 a genuine compostable alternative with very high quality and, more importantly, that leaves no microplastics. I see the most significant potential in rigid materials for straws and cups and flexible film materials for packaging in the food industry, agriculture, and plastic bags.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

According to Dr Fernandes, the market is currently flooded with products that are marketed as sustainable. Yet, these are often accompanied by inaccurate information or a lack of a clear understanding of key environmental concepts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cFor a researcher, explaining the difference between Gaia\u2019s materials and others is easy. And once you explain it to people and they see and feel for themselves, you tend to have a \u201cfollower\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI am confident that many Brazilian businesses will transfer to Biodolomer in the coming years.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gaia Biomaterials has appointed MFI Polymers as their commercial representative in Brazil. The company \u00eds headed by Dr. Mercia Fernandes who holds a PhD in Polymer Science and specializes in sustainable polymer solutions. Gaia Biomaterials from Sweden produce Biodolomer \u2013 a limestone based alternative to plastic that is fully compostable and leaves no microplastics. \u201cThe Brazilian […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":160722,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","nova_meta_subtitle":"Dr. Mercia Fernandes from MFI Polymers who holds a PhD in Polymer Science, has been appointed as commercial representative in Brazil to introduce Biodolomer into the Brazilian markets","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[11270,5847,12239,25989,7105,5528],"supplier":[13526],"class_list":["post-160693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bio-based","tag-biodegradability","tag-bioplastics","tag-compostability","tag-flexiblefilms","tag-packaging","tag-sustainability","supplier-gaia-biomaterials-ab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160693","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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160693"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=160693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}