{"id":16162,"date":"2012-10-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-23T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bio-based.eu\/news\/index.php?startid=20121031-02n"},"modified":"2012-10-24T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-23T22:00:00","slug":"avitez-spouts-first-pla-bottle-factory-in-asean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/avitez-spouts-first-pla-bottle-factory-in-asean\/","title":{"rendered":"Avitez spouts first PLA bottle factory in Asean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Thailand will be the site of Asean&#8217;s first factory to make water bottles solely using bioplastics, which will be exported across the continent to tap growing demand for environmentally friendly products. The Bangkok-based Avitez Ltd has already manufactured the bottles in China using biopolylactic acid (PLA) derived from 100% corn. The bioplastic is made with technology and materials imported from the US.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Avitez was founded late last year by three partners including the Irish national Emer Gannon, now the company&#8217;s sales and marketing director.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8230; Full text: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bangkokpost.com\/business\/economics\/318018\/avitez-spouts-first-pla-bottle-factory-in-asean\" >www.bangkokpost.com\/business\/economics\/318018\/avitez-spouts-first-pla-bottle-factory-in-asean<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tags: mineral water, Joint Venture, PLA plant, cassava-based PLA resins, green economy, niche, Plant-based bottles, hotels, recycling plant<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b>Thailand will be the site of Asean&#8217;s first factory to make water bottles solely using bioplastics, which will be exported across the continent to tap<\/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":[4062,103,7859,4063,4064],"class_list":["post-16162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","supplier-avitez-inc","supplier-natureworks-llc","supplier-pttgc","supplier-reangwa-standard-industry-co-ltd","supplier-thailand-institute-of-packaging-and-recycling-management"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16162","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=16162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16162"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=16162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}