Most of
the companies engaged in production of bio-based plastics used food crops for
the same but now economic forces and government pressure is there on producers
to employ only non-food cellulosic material for this purpose. Currently, up to
2.4 billion tons cellulosic mass is available which can be used as raw material
for bioplastics production. Lux Research, the leading market research company
based in Boston states that cellulosic biomass can be used for manufacturing of
bio-based fuels and materials. Definitely, the cost of converting cellulosic
feedstock into bio-plastics can be comparatively high. Andrew Soare,
senior analyst in Lux Research states that the two most important metrics to
influence the feasibility of cellulosic biomass as an option are cost and
availability.
He also wrote a report with title, “Quantifying
Cost and Availability of Cellulosic Feedstocks for Biofuels and Biochemicals.” Read
more about the report here at - http://www.bioplasticsmagazine.com/en/news/meldungen/20150109Cellulosics-feedstocks.php
Andrew further says that cellulosic
feedstock is highly potential for production of bio-based plastics still many
business strategies are there to move around feedstock that can be low cost.
Definitely, failure in discovering and adopting low cost feedstock options will
be an expensive deal for manufacturers.
Further in the report he mentioned
that local availability of feedstock will be a plus for producers as they will
not have to invest on transportation of biomass.
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