{"id":51200,"date":"2018-03-21T07:35:24","date_gmt":"2018-03-21T06:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rss.nova-institut.net\/public.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Filbioeconomista.com%2F2018%2F03%2F14%2Fbio-on-launches-a-new-use-for-its-100-natural-and-biodegradable-phas-bioplastic%2F"},"modified":"2018-03-19T13:50:33","modified_gmt":"2018-03-19T12:50:33","slug":"bio-on-launches-a-new-use-for-its-100-natural-and-biodegradable-phas-bioplastic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/bio-on-launches-a-new-use-for-its-100-natural-and-biodegradable-phas-bioplastic\/","title":{"rendered":"Bio-on launches a new use for its 100% natural and biodegradable PHAs bioplastic"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bio-on launches a new use for its 100% natural and biodegradable PHAs bioplastic. The researchers of the Italian company have developed a solution for the controlled release of Urea fertilisers, an enormous\u00a0market with global annual production of 180 million tons and 4% annual growth. The advantage is more effective dosage and lower fertiliser consumption. This means less pollution and a positive impact on people and the planet.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bio-on, listed on the AIM segment of Borsa Italiana and operating in the high quality bioplastics sector, has developed an innovative technology to coat Urea for fertiliser and has set up a NEWCO called U-COAT (Urea Coating). This new\u00a0company 100% owned by Bio-on S.p.A. has exclusive rights to use the technologies developed by Bio-on for coating fertilisers with a natural product such as PHAs, the biopolymer developed by Bio-on, which is natural and biodegradable\u00a0without leaving any trace on the environment. U-COAT will pay running royalties to Bio-on for every quantity produced or\u00a0sub-licensed on the fertilisers market. Bio-on owns 100% of the technology licensed or sub-licensed through U-COAT to international manufacturers.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am proud of the research and development our scientists are conducting,\u201d says Bio-on Chairman and CEO Marco Astorri, \u201cto enter such a large and fast-growing market as fertilisers confirms the extreme versatility of a platform product such as our natural biopolymer. By setting up this new NEWCO, we are taking a major step towards exploiting the many technologies\u00a0we are creating, which will find dedicated applications and produce the maximum economic return for each sector through sector-specific licenses. This will also allow direct partnerships to be created with leading companies in each\u00a0sector.\u201d<\/p>\n

U-COAT brings to this major market a technology that will create a revolution in the use of fertilisers, particularly Urea.\u00a0This type of fertiliser is usually sold in white crystals, pellets or granules. It is a very concentrated nitrogen-containing feed\u00a0that is highly water-soluble so rapidly degrades and disperses in the subsoil. Urea can be used as a fertiliser at the sowing stage or on the surface, but should not come into contact with the seed. This is where the innovation proposed by UCOAT comes into play. With varying percentages depending on the characteristics of the soil, PHAs bioplastic coats\u00a0the UREA granule which, thanks to PHA\u2019s natural biodegradation, will then release the fertiliser into the soil\u00a0in a controlled way as and when required, leaving no trace and protecting the fertiliser from being washed away by rainfall and therefore being less effective.<\/p>\n

The innovative solution proposed for the fertilisers sector will reduce the quantities of urea used in the soil and\u00a0eliminate any excess, with a consequent reduction in costs and environmental impact on the subsoil. The future possibility\u00a0of applying the same technology to both other higher value fertilisers and agricultural pesticides and other\u00a0complementary products will play a major part in reducing environmental impact and costs in the\u00a0agricultural sector.<\/p>\n

In 2015 FAO predicted annual output to increase by 41 million tons by\u00a02018. This indicates annual production of approximately 200 million tons, with an annual growth rate of 4%. The average price of urea in the last 5 years is 300 Euro\/ton. The application designed by Bio-on and carried out by U-COAT envisages\u00a0using 1 to 4% of PHAs per ton, opening up a market of 2 to 8 million tons\/year solely for fertilisers.<\/p>\n

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  Bio-on launches a new use for its 100% natural and biodegradable PHAs bioplastic. The researchers of the Italian company have developed a solution for the controlled release of Urea fertilisers, an enormous\u00a0market with global annual production of 180 million tons and 4% annual growth. The advantage is more effective dosage and lower fertiliser consumption. […]<\/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":[11270,5847],"supplier":[2904],"class_list":["post-51200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","tag-biodegradability","tag-bioplastics","supplier-bio-on"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51200","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=51200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51200"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=51200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}