{"id":64457,"date":"2019-07-03T07:32:53","date_gmt":"2019-07-03T05:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=64457"},"modified":"2019-06-28T14:59:26","modified_gmt":"2019-06-28T12:59:26","slug":"new-bioplastic-to-be-announced-at-k-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/new-bioplastic-to-be-announced-at-k-show\/","title":{"rendered":"New bioplastic to be announced at K Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>72P, a young Belgian start-up founded in 2018 by Pieter Dondeyne, is in the process of developing a new biobased polymer derived from waste and by-products from the food industry.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-64460 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/wImage.php_.jpg\" alt=\"wImage.php\" width=\"240\" height=\"183\" \/>&#8220;Food processing residue,\u201d is how he framed it. \u201c So, our feedstock is not suitable for food or feed. \u201cOnly local sources are used, he emphasised.<\/p>\n<p>It is very early days yet, said, Dondeyne, and the material has not yet been granted the certifications it needs to be labelled as such, but it is \u2018very likely\u2019 to be biodegradable. The new material is \u2018compatible with conventional processing technologies\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>72P is currently focussing on biocomposites. \u201cIt could also be a monomaterial, but adding fiber enhances properties and adds value,\u201d he said. The current product has the look of wood but can be shaped like plastic.<\/p>\n<p>72P is currently scaling the technology. The first pilot projects are in progress, with clients from the furniture industry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur mission is to be fully circular, both in the technical and the biological loop, \u201csaid Dondeyne. \u201cAnd we have succeeded.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He was unable to provide much more information at this time but promised that at the K Show in October, more details will be made public.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-64458\" src=\"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/wImage.php_3.jpg\" alt=\"wImage.php\" width=\"500\" height=\"443\" srcset=\"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/media\/2019\/06\/wImage.php_3.jpg 500w, https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/media\/2019\/06\/wImage.php_3-300x266.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>72P, a young Belgian start-up founded in 2018 by Pieter Dondeyne, is in the process of developing a new biobased polymer derived from waste and by-products from the food industry. &#8220;Food processing residue,\u201d is how he framed it. \u201c So, our feedstock is not suitable for food or feed. \u201cOnly local sources are used, he [&#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":[11286,11270,5847],"supplier":[],"class_list":["post-64457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","tag-biocomposites","tag-biodegradability","tag-bioplastics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64457","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=64457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64457"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=64457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}