{"id":17048,"date":"2013-10-01T13:12:45","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T11:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.plasticsnews.com\/article\/20131001\/NEWS\/131009993\/laurel-biocomposite-opens-nebraska-plant"},"modified":"2018-01-18T15:21:13","modified_gmt":"2018-01-18T14:21:13","slug":"laurel-biocomposite-opens-nebraska-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/laurel-biocomposite-opens-nebraska-plant\/","title":{"rendered":"Laurel BioComposite opens Nebraska plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bioplastics maker Laurel BioComposite LLC has moved into a new 20,000 square foot plant in Laurel, Neb.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Laurel-based firm marked the opening Sept. 25 with a ceremony attended by Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman, state director Maxine Moul and Laurel Mayor Mark Patefield. The plant currently operates a single production line with annual capacity of 7 million pounds. Laurel already is in the process of adding a second production line as well as bulk material handling. The site eventually will have annual capacity of 48 million pounds, officials said in a Sept. 29 news release.<\/p>\n<p>Laurel\u2019s Bio-Res-brand bioresin is based on corn and can have bio-based content of up to 80 percent. The material can be blended with thermoplastics as a pellet or with thermosets as a powder. Officials said Bio-Res \u201cis especially suited\u201d for single-use products in industries such as shipping, lawn and garden, agricultural and automotive.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our product replaces a portion of traditional plastic resins and creates a positive environmental impact by reducing the industry\u2019s reliance on crude oil,\u201d Laurel chief executive officer said in the release. \u201cWe don\u2019t make the plastic \u2014 we make the plastic greener.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bioplastics maker Laurel BioComposite LLC has moved into a new 20,000 square foot plant in Laurel, N&#8230;<\/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":[2132],"class_list":["post-17048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","supplier-laurel-biocomposite-llc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17048","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=17048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17048"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=17048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}