Content Editorial.................................................... 3 News ........................................................ 5 Application News ................................... 28 Events .................................................... 10 Event Calendar ...................................... 54 Bookstore ............................................... 51 Glossary ................................................. 52 Editorial Planner ................................... 56 Companies in this issue ........................ 58 04|2011 July/August Material Novel Bio-Composites for Structural Applications ............ 12 Too Cool for School ............................................................. 20 Maxi-Use .............................................................................. 32 Advanced Research in Bionanocomposites ....................... 35 Bottles Completing the Puzzle: 100% Plant-Derived PET.............. 14 New Bottle Material .......................................................... 18 Personality Isao Inomata ........................................................................ 42 Opinion Is All ‘Non-Bio‘ Plastic Bad? ............................................... 44 Basics The of Blow molding of Bioplastics .................................... 48 Applications A cleaner hospital, a cleaner environment ........................ 23 Testing Measure Biodegradability of Plastics More Accurately ..... 26 End-of-Life The Role of Standards for Biodegradable Plastics ............ 36 More Responsible End-of-Life Options .............................. 40 Imprint Publisher / Editorial Dr. Michael Thielen Samuel Brangenberg Layout/Production Mark Speckenbach, Julia Hunold Head Office Polymedia Publisher GmbH Dammer Str. 112 41066 Mönchengladbach, Germany phone: +49 (0)2161 6884469 fax: +49 (0)2161 6884468 info@bioplasticsmagazine.com www.bioplasticsmagazine.com Media Adviser Elke Hoffmann, Caroline Motyka phone: +49(0)2161-6884467 fax: +49(0)2161 6884468 eh@bioplasticsmagazine.com Print Tölkes Druck + Medien GmbH 47807 Krefeld, Germany Total Print run: 3,800 copies bioplastics MAGAZINE ISSN 1862-5258 bioplastics magazine is published 6 times a year. This publication is sent to qualified subscribers (149 Euro for 6 issues). bioplastics MAGAZINE is printed on chlorine-free FSC certified paper. bioplastics MAGAZINE is read in 91 countries. Not to be reproduced in any form without permission from the publisher. The fact that product names may not be identified in our editorial as trade marks is not an indication that such names are not registered trade marks. bioplastics MAGAZINE tries to use British spelling. However, in articles based on information from the USA, American spelling may also be used. Editorial contributions are always welcome. Please contact the editorial office via mt@bioplasticsmagazine.com. Envelopes A part of this print run is mailed to the readers wrapped in BO-PLA envelopes sponsored by Taghleef Industries S.p.A. and Maropack GmbH & Co. KG Cover Unitika 4 bioplastics MAGAZINE [04/11] Vol. 6 Follow us on twitter: http://twitter.com/bioplasticsmag Be our fan on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/bioplastics-MAGAZINE/103745406344904
News 4 th Annual ‘Green Plastics‘ in Israel Israel is going through a real change in it’s attitude towards waste management in general and specifically management of packaging waste, as a new government law was passed and declared active from July 2011. This law, created in the format of known European similar structures, along with the new strategy of the Israeli Ministry of environmental protection, gives way for new waste separating methodologies, both for municipalities and Industrial bodies. It is safe to say, that within 2-4 years, most of the households in Israel, will be separating waste into an organic stream and other 1-2 ‘dry’ streams. Within this atmosphere, Shenkar College of Engineering and Design, located in Ramat Gan, a dynamic city adjacent to Tel Aviv, Israel, had held the 4 th annual ‘green plastics’ convention in Ramat Gan, Israel. As in previous years, the day was full of speakers concentrating on Bio-Plastics (bio-based and biodegradable). The first half of the day was held in English with speaker guests from BASF, FKUR and University of Massachusetts, Lowell. A noted speech was given by Patrick Zimmermann of FKuR, who spoke of using Bioplastics in ‘Multilayer systems’, offering new possibilities and more applications then ever. The second half of the day was dedicated to Israeli speakers, Researchers from Shenkar institute and from Israeli compounding companies such as Tosaf and Kafrit. Israel is expecting a breakthrough in the Bioplastics market. An infrastructure is being built in the form of the Israeli standard SII 6018 - ‘Bioplastics and it’s products’ and a soon to be formed standard for determining of bio-based content. With Hi-tech plastic & packaging producers, an innovative market and an awakening environmental awareness, Israel could very well be, a surprising market for Bio-Plastics in the coming years. First Biological Material Industry Union in China Founded At the 3 rd China International Biological Plastic Application Conference (Guangzhou, May 15-16, 2011) a new Low-carbon Biomaterial Production & Research Innovation Alliance was established by over 30 organizations, all engaged in low carbon biological plastic industry. It is the first industrial alliance that specializes in biological material field in China. The union was mainly initiated by Shenzhen Esun Industrial Co., Ltd.. Yang Yihu, chairman of this company was appointed as the President of the union. Zhuo Renxi, an academic of Chinese Academy of Sciences was designated as the chief science consultant of the alliance. The more than 30 members include Tsinghua University Shenzhen Research institute, General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (Shenzhen) and RP TOPLA (Shenzhen). Yang Yihu said: ”The Innovation Union devotes to advocating low carbon, developing biological plastic industry, promoting low-carbon biological plastic economy, and building a harmonious happy lifestyle between man and nature. The innovation union aims at building a comprehensive resource platform of politics, production, study, research and capital, excavating industry technology & resources advantage of upstream and downstream, establishing sharing mechanism of innovation coalition resources, and realizing the breakthrough of key technology, the core technology and common technology in low carbon biological plastic industry.” In addition the alliance is going to create a good condition and operation environment for the cohesion of upstream achievements and downstream industry application, facilitate the conversion achievements to industrialization, and bring out a rapid development of low-carbon biological plastic industry. MT www.shenkar.ac.il bioplastics MAGAZINE [04/11] Vol. 6 5
