{"id":168884,"date":"2025-10-14T07:20:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T05:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=168884"},"modified":"2025-10-08T12:17:47","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T10:17:47","slug":"pipes-moulded-from-its-biobased-polycarbonate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/pipes-moulded-from-its-biobased-polycarbonate\/","title":{"rendered":"Pipes moulded from its biobased polycarbonate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"209\" height=\"241\" src=\"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/media\/2025\/10\/Bildschirmfoto-2025-10-08-um-10.47.02.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-168899\" srcset=\"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/media\/2025\/10\/Bildschirmfoto-2025-10-08-um-10.47.02.png 209w, https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/media\/2025\/10\/Bildschirmfoto-2025-10-08-um-10.47.02-130x150.png 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 209px) 100vw, 209px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Bioplastic pipe organ <br>\u00a9 Teijin Group<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>The transparent pipes were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teijin.com\/news\/2025\/07\/31\/20250731_01.pdf\">manufactured by Teiyo<\/a>, a Teijin Group company specializing in plastic moulding. This innovative pipe organ was exhibited at the \u201cReborn Challenge\u201d area within the Osaka Healthcare Pavilion during the Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The bioplastic pipe organ was created by a consortium of eight plastic moulding companies that are participating in the \u201cREBORN with Bioplastics\u201d project organized by the West Japan Plastic Products Industrial Association. It serves as a symbolic demonstration of how the plastics industry\u2019s technologies and ideas can contribute to solving global environmental challenges such as climate change and marine plastic pollution.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:11px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"316\" height=\"241\" src=\"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/media\/2025\/10\/Bildschirmfoto-2025-10-08-um-10.46.44.png\" alt=\"Pipe made from biomass-derived PC resin\" class=\"wp-image-168898\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.3112033195020747;width:262px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/media\/2025\/10\/Bildschirmfoto-2025-10-08-um-10.46.44.png 316w, https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/media\/2025\/10\/Bildschirmfoto-2025-10-08-um-10.46.44-300x229.png 300w, https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/media\/2025\/10\/Bildschirmfoto-2025-10-08-um-10.46.44-150x114.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 316px) 100vw, 316px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Pipe made from biomass-derived PC resin \u00a9 Teijin Group<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>At the request of the participating companies, the plastic pipes for the organ were manufactured by Teiyo using biomass-derived PC resin that is produced by Teijin using the mass balance approach. In addition to the sustainability benefits of the biobased PC resin, Teiyo\u2019s advanced moulding technology, which enables the production of pipes in various lengths and diameters, was a key factor in their selection for the pipe organ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:9px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The transparent pipes were manufactured by Teiyo, a Teijin Group company specializing in plastic moulding. This innovative pipe organ was exhibited at the \u201cReborn Challenge\u201d area within the Osaka Healthcare Pavilion during the Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan. The bioplastic pipe organ was created by a consortium of eight plastic moulding companies that are participating [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":168898,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","nova_meta_subtitle":"Pipes moulded from its biobased polycarbonate (PC) resin have been adopted for use in the world\u2019s first pipe organ made from bioplastic","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[5838,17299,5842,5847,24887,16288],"supplier":[689],"class_list":["post-168884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bio-based","tag-bioeconomy","tag-biomanufacturing","tag-biomass","tag-bioplastics","tag-pipes","tag-polycarbonate","supplier-teijin-ltd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168884","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=168884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168884"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=168884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}