{"id":16299,"date":"2013-02-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-13T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bio-based.eu\/news\/index.php?startid=20130221-01n"},"modified":"2013-02-14T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-13T22:00:00","slug":"thailand-well-positioned-to-be-a-global-bioplastics-hub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/thailand-well-positioned-to-be-a-global-bioplastics-hub\/","title":{"rendered":"Thailand &#8216;well positioned&#8217; to be a global bioplastics hub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Thailand&#8217;s plastics industry has an ambitious goal &#8211; become one of the hubs for the emerging bioplastics industry &#8211; as it aims to capture some of the sizable worldwide biopolymer investment expected in the next few years.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The Southeast Asian country is not traditionally thought of as a place that develops cutting-edge polymers, but Thai officials used a recent conference in Bangkok to make their case for linking their large agriculture and plastics industries to become a center for making plant-based plastics.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8230;Full text: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plasticsnews.com\/article\/20130214\/NEWS\/130219946\/thailand-well-positioned-to-be-a-global-bioplastics-hub\" >www.plasticsnews.com\/article\/20130214\/NEWS\/130219946\/thailand-well-positioned-to-be-a-global-bioplastics-hub<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tags: lower energy costs, investments, resin plant, cassava starch, corn starch, polybutylene succinate, food waste<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b>Thailand&#8217;s plastics industry has an ambitious goal &#8211; become one of the hubs for the emerging bioplastics industry &#8211; as it aims to capture some<\/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":[1009,4445,4502,103,4,7859,3568],"class_list":["post-16299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","supplier-mitsubishi-chemical","supplier-multibax-public-co-ltd","supplier-national-economic-and-social-development-board","supplier-natureworks-llc","supplier-nova-institut-gmbh","supplier-pttgc","supplier-thai-bioplastics-industry-association-tbia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16299","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=16299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16299"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=16299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}