{"id":17498,"date":"2013-10-22T07:50:39","date_gmt":"2013-10-22T05:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.plasticsnews.com\/article\/20131021\/NEWS\/131029992\/plastics-made-from-olive-stones-featured-at-k-2013"},"modified":"2013-10-22T07:55:39","modified_gmt":"2013-10-22T05:55:39","slug":"plastics-made-olive-stones-featured-k-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/plastics-made-olive-stones-featured-k-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Plastics made from olive stones featured at K 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>D\u00dcSSELDORF, GERMANY \u2014 France-based Natureplast is experimenting with some very unusual ingredients for its plastic recipes and is this year showing samples of materials made using sources such as olive stones.<\/p>\n<p>The company, which describes itself as a bioplastics trader, makes plastic samples in its 3-year-old R&amp;D lab, where it experiments with unusual compounds.<\/p>\n<p>On its stand, the firm is demonstrating a flower pot made out of a plastic based on olive stones, which was launched this year. It also has samples of bioplastics made using leather, shell and algae.<\/p>\n<p>President Thomas Lef\u00e8vre says Natureplast helps partners who are looking for something that is not readily available on the market. The leather compound, for example is attracting a lot of interest from automotive companies, he said.<\/p>\n<p>The algae material, on the other hand, is showing promise because algae is cheap, readily available and does not compete with food sources.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>D&Uuml;SSELDORF, GERMANY &mdash; France-based Natureplast is experimenting with some very unusual ingredi&#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":[760],"class_list":["post-17498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","supplier-natureplast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17498","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=17498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17498"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=17498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}