{"id":16344,"date":"2013-01-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-29T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bio-based.eu\/news\/index.php?startid=20130130-05n"},"modified":"2013-01-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-29T22:00:00","slug":"multibax-boosting-its-bioplastics-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/multibax-boosting-its-bioplastics-production\/","title":{"rendered":"Multibax boosting its bioplastics production"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Thai plastic packager Multibax Public Co. Ltd. is more than doubling capacity for its new line of biodegradable bags, based largely on strong European demand for such lower-carbon-footprint packaging.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Multibax plans this year to add a second extrusion line for bioplastics products, with an annual nameplate capacity of 8 million pounds, and expand capacity in its more traditional business of polyethylene bags, said Pisuth Lertvilai, deputy managing director of the Bangkok-based company.<\/p>\n<p>Its current nameplate capacity for bioplastic bags is about 4.4 million pounds a year, he said.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8230; Full text: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plasticsnews.com\/article\/20130130\/NEWS\/130139980\/multibax-boosting-its-bioplastics-production#email_pndaily\" >www.plasticsnews.com\/article\/20130130\/NEWS\/130139980\/multibax-boosting-its-bioplastics-production#email_pndaily<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tags: End Markets, Materials, Regions, Africa, Consumer Products, Packaging, Sustainability, Polyethylene<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b>Thai plastic packager Multibax Public Co. Ltd. is more than doubling capacity for its new line of biodegradable bags, based largely on strong European demand<\/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":[4445],"class_list":["post-16344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","supplier-multibax-public-co-ltd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16344","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=16344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16344"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=16344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}