This company is taking packaging to the next level with 100% bio-content material. #podcast #green

8 Sept 2024 · 1 min

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A company is developing packaging from 100% bio-based material, but hitting a wall: the binders aren't bio-derived yet because commercial alternatives don't exist. Lab tests work fine. Scaling to compete with cheap fossil plastics is the real problem.

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What we are doing at the R&D stage or R&D side is that we are increasing the biocontent of the material and we are working towards that to have the 100% biocontent at some point. We could have it today, but right now the ligands, that's the chemical name for the binders in the structure, they are not bio for one particular reason, the commercial availability. If you would like to do it on a lab scale, absolutely no problem. But if you would like to commercialize it and go to the customers, even with our approach and really being passionate, I would be to sell it and compete against than the fossil-based plastic. So we are finding the balance between these two.