{"id":38707,"date":"2016-11-14T07:20:16","date_gmt":"2016-11-14T06:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=38707"},"modified":"2016-11-17T13:08:19","modified_gmt":"2016-11-17T12:08:19","slug":"bio-fed-sees-significant-growth-mvera-bioplastics-especially-in-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/bio-fed-sees-significant-growth-mvera-bioplastics-especially-in-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"BIO-FED sees &#8216;significant growth&#8217; M\u00b7VERA bioplastics \u2013 especially in Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-38708 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/image_tuete.png\" alt=\"image_tuete\" width=\"242\" height=\"262\" \/>Bio-Fed, the bioplastics branch of AKRO-PLASTIC GmbH and a member of the international Hamburg-based Feddersen Group took part in the K show in D\u00fcsseldorf for the first time this year.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bio-Fed, which was founded in October 2014 with the acquisition of the German activities of Metabolix, a US-based biotechnology company, today produces and markets biodegradable and biobased plastics under the brand name M\u2219VERA.<br \/>\nAnd with success, according to a company spokesman, Dr. Inno Gaul \u201cWe\u2019ve seen huge growth,\u201d he said. \u201cMostly in the southern European countries and especially in Italy. We&#8217;re in the top three there, very close to Novamont. The main market is shopping bags.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The significant growth seen in this market, due to legislative changes in the form of bans on plastic bags, led Bio-Fed the to sign an exclusivity contract with the company Febo S.p.A, a distributor with whom \u201cwe acquired a strategic partner with a long history and knowledge of the plastics market in Italy\u201d, said Stanislaw Haftka, Sales Director at Bio-Fed.<\/p>\n<p>The company has also developed a new grade that is specifically directed at the French market. \u201cIn compliance with the required levels of biobased content and biodegradable behavior. We are also still in the process of obtaining certification from Vincotte. It\u2019s important to stay ahead of the game in these markets,\u201d Gaul noted.<\/p>\n<p>Bio-Fed is presenting the new M\u00b7VERA film grades for the French market and for mulch film at the Ecomondo green technologies expo that is currently taking place in Rimini, Italy. Also, its new M\u00b7VERA products for injection moulding, are also on show. These materials are suitable for a wide range of applications, among which coffee capsules: \u201cA true success story,\u201d said Gaul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bio-Fed, the bioplastics branch of AKRO-PLASTIC GmbH and a member of the international Hamburg-based Feddersen Group took part in the K show in D\u00fcsseldorf for the first time this year. Bio-Fed, which was founded in October 2014 with the acquisition of the German activities of Metabolix, a US-based biotechnology company, today produces and markets biodegradable [&#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":[5838,5847],"supplier":[1399,10624,12802,6511,194],"class_list":["post-38707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","tag-bioeconomy","tag-bioplastics","supplier-akro-plastic-gmbh","supplier-bio-fed","supplier-febo-spa","supplier-k-d-feddersen-gmbh-co-kg","supplier-metabolix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38707","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=38707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38707"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=38707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}