{"id":21257,"date":"2014-07-02T03:12:38","date_gmt":"2014-07-02T01:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=21257"},"modified":"2014-07-02T12:03:54","modified_gmt":"2014-07-02T10:03:54","slug":"solvin-highlights-green-pvc-mondoplastico-project-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/solvin-highlights-green-pvc-mondoplastico-project-month\/","title":{"rendered":"SolVin highlights green PVC from Mondoplastico as project of the month"},"content":{"rendered":"

Throughout the intervening period of three years between each presentation of the SolVin Award for PVC Innovation<\/a>, projects presented in in the various categories of the competition are selected for special attention in the newsletter. This month\u2019s pick: Mondoplastico\u2019s green PVC.<\/p>\n

Italy-based Mondoplastico has been in the plastic sheeting business for over half a century. Over the course of its long experience in the industry, the company has managed to keeps reinventing itself, along the way building a new factory and developing a steady stream of innovative products. With sustainability in the air, the Italian firm mobilised its R&D team to boost recyclability after it joined the industry\u2019s programme VinylPlus \u201cWe\u2019ve made a lot of effort to improve PVC\u2019s environmental performance,\u201d says Nicola Avella, technical manager at Mondoplastico. \u201cfor our recipe, we mix PVC with materials coming from vegetable or renewable resources.\u201d<\/p>\n

As a result, the new recipe contains 50% certified biodegradable biopolymer and with an OK-Biobased 2 Stars certificate . That, in effect, doubles the sheeting\u2019s biodegradability, explains Mr. Avella.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are some other polymers for calendaring, but PVC is the best we have,\u201d he says. \u201cWe wanted to make a material that\u2019s completely biodegradable, but that is not technically possible.\u201d<\/p>\n

The catch for the biodegradable sheeting, says Mr. Avella, is a compromise on durability as well as higher cost.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll customers want is green, green, green. But when it costs one cent more, they\u2019re reluctant,\u201d he says. On durability: \u201cIt lasts only a few months, so you can\u2019t put it long-lasting applications such as cars.\u201d But for food packaging, tablecloths, temporary advertising banners or billboards, it can be ideal, says Mr. Avella.<\/p>\n

Never mind putting it in Mondoplastico\u2019s Cast Killer Film to stick images on your road warrior-dream machine. \u2028Biodegradable sheeting is just one of the niches Mondoplastico fills from a factory with 30,000 tons of capacity. They also produce sheeting to install graphics on floors, trains, and planes as well as construction materials for stretched ceilings and verandas<\/p>\n

\u201cWhenever you do something sustainable, you have to consider its full life cycle,\u201d says Mr. Avella. \u201cWe take that into account with all our products, it\u2019s always a balancing act.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Throughout the intervening period of three years between each presentation of the SolVin Award for PVC Innovation, projects presented in in the various categories of the competition are selected for special attention in the newsletter. This month\u2019s pick: Mondoplastico\u2019s green PVC. Italy-based Mondoplastico has been in the plastic sheeting business for over half a century. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"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":[7472],"class_list":["post-21257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","supplier-mondoplastico"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21257","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=21257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21257"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=21257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}