{"id":23068,"date":"2014-10-24T03:21:14","date_gmt":"2014-10-24T01:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=23068"},"modified":"2014-10-23T14:19:37","modified_gmt":"2014-10-23T12:19:37","slug":"akro-plastic-acquire-parts-metabolix-bio-plastic-portfolio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/akro-plastic-acquire-parts-metabolix-bio-plastic-portfolio\/","title":{"rendered":"Akro-Plastic\u00a0to acquire parts of the Metabolix bio-plastic portfolio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Akro-Plastic\u00a0GmbH, manufacturer of engineering plastics compounds with headquarters in Niederzissen, in the Rhineland-Palatinate region of Germany, will acquire a product range of biodegradable, compostable compounds from Metabolix, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts \/ USA), a manufacturer of polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The product range, developed and successfully launched by Metabolix under the brand name &#8220;Mvera&#8221;, will henceforth be marketed and further developed by\u00a0Akro-Plastic GmbH through its BIO-FED branch located on BioCampus Cologne, Nattermannallee 1, Cologne, Germany. Security of supply for customers and the transfer of all required technologies and IP to\u00a0Akro-Plastic have been mutually assured through contract negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, the two companies intend to continue working together in future in the area of PHA products and blends. All European employees of Metabolix will continue their work with\u00a0Akro-Plastic at the BIO-FED branch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Akro-Plastic\u00a0GmbH, manufacturer of engineering plastics compounds with headquarters in Niederzissen, in the Rhineland-Palatinate region of Germany, will acquire a product range of biodegradable, compostable compounds from Metabolix, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts \/ USA), a manufacturer of polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA). The product range, developed and successfully launched by Metabolix under the brand name &#8220;Mvera&#8221;, will henceforth be marketed [&#8230;]<\/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":[1399,194],"class_list":["post-23068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","supplier-akro-plastic-gmbh","supplier-metabolix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23068","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=23068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23068"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=23068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}