{"id":17147,"date":"2013-10-02T10:28:51","date_gmt":"2013-10-02T08:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.plasticsnews.com\/article\/20131002\/NEWS\/131009982\/us-owned-biodegradable-film-company-expands-croatian-plant"},"modified":"2013-10-05T09:58:04","modified_gmt":"2013-10-05T07:58:04","slug":"us-owned-biodegradable-film-company-expands-croatian-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/us-owned-biodegradable-film-company-expands-croatian-plant\/","title":{"rendered":"US-owned biodegradable film company expands Croatian plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A U.S.-owned European manufacturer and converter of biodegradable films is investing 3 million euros to expand its 10,000 square meter industrial site at Beli Manastir, Croatia.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>EcoCortec, part of Cortec Corp. of St Paul, Minn., produces corrosion protection films using the parent group&#8217;s VpCI (Vapor phase corrosion inhibitor) technology. The firm is constructing a new 1,600 square meter production hall at the Croatian facility to house three more hi-tech extrusion lines and a VpCI papers confectioning line.<\/p>\n<p>The expansion will allow the plant to double its production as well as adding more storage capacity for a range of Cortec products. Apart from extrusion, the operation also does bag converting and printing.<\/p>\n<p>EcoCortec&#8217;s Croatian plant, located near a main trans-European highway, is equipped with blown film extrusion lines turning out biodegradable alternative products to polyethylene.<\/p>\n<p>Some 95 percent of the European facility&#8217;s production is geared to satisfying the export market.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A U.S.-owned European manufacturer and converter of biodegradable films is investing 3 million euros&#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":[2283,5555],"class_list":["post-17147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","supplier-cortec-corporation","supplier-ecocortec"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17147","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=17147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17147"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=17147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}