NatureWorks and Northern Technologies International Corp announced collaboration on sales and marketing

An announcement by NatureWorks and Northern Technologies International Corp revealed that both of these companies are going to collaborate on sales and marketing of Ingeo in India and neighbor countries. Ingeo is an advance bioplastic hosting commercial utilization including flexible and strong packaging, personal care productions, textiles and appliances and electronics. The recent discovery regarding the use of this natural bioplastic is 3D printing. 

Initial sales and marketing deals are mainly focused on flexible packaging for food items and paper based packaging. NatureWorks and NatureTec will together work on projects leading to waste decrease projects with regulatory agencies.

Read more about the deal here – http://www.biomassmagazine.com/11305/natureworks-and-nature-tec-begin-sales-of-ingeo-in-india  

Northern Technologies is engaged in production and marketing of various kinds of biobased and degradable films, engineered plastics and rigid injection molded materials while Nature-Tech Pvt. Ltd. is leading sales and marketing of International Northern Technologies in India.

According to the Asia-Pacific Commercial Director of NatureWorks, selection of the best commercial partner only can bring success in a diverse and complicate market and in order to market Ingeo Products in India, respecting local customers and sharing same for own is the most important thing. Vineet Dalal, Vice President and Director of the Northern Technologies International’s Global Market Development agree with Rich.

US Energy Department offers $2.5 million grant for the joint venture of Calysta Inc. and NatureWorks

Leading companies of the world are enjoying good attention by the US Energy Department as they award bio-based producers with grant for continuing their programs in eco friendly deals. Solegear Bioplastics Inc. and Natureworks LLC have got new funds for their renewable product project. In order to offer the chance for continuing the joint venture between Calysta Inc. and NatureWorks, the $2.5 million grant by the U.S. Energy Department is being offered. This joint venture has been planned for turning natural methane biogas into lactic acid so that the Ingeo-brand polylactic acid resin of NatureWorks can be produced.

Read more about the deal here at – http://www.plasticsnews.com/article/20141103/NEWS/141109989/bioplastics-firms-win-new-funding

This project will utilize gas to chemical technology of Calysta whereas methane can be an optional feedstock according to the company’s official. According to the NatureWorks executive Ken Williams, methane to lactic acid conversion technology out of this revolution is good enough for offering an optional feedstock for Ingeo production.

The finance being offered by the U.S. Energy Department is supportive for growth in sales and marketing of the bio-plastic composting project. Officials further state that Solegear is working for production of polysole-brand bioplastic which is completely compostable and bio-based. This will make bioplastic industry developed and advance.

NatureWorks to work in the direction of advancement of Ingeo biopolymers

NatureWorks is popular again with its new invention recently, the advanced family of Ingeo biopolymers. The most important thing to know about the eco-friendly polymer is that it possesses an important input to any full life cycle assessment which is carried out by the consumer product developed from polymers. Production of this outstanding polymer is good because it emits lesser greenhouse gases and utilizes lesser non-renewable energy in comparison to the common bio-plastics.

Read more about the deal here at – http://www.natureworksllc.com/News-and-Events/Press-Releases/2014/09-25-14-Revised-Ingeo-Eco-Profile

As the company works with various manufacturers, brand owners, researchers and marketers, the product gets good response. According to the Environmental Affairs Manager, Erwin Vink, the latest eco-profile gone through calculation utilizing the methodology, core database and modeling software together. This kind of approach was also used by the industry organizations in Europe in the beginning of the nineties for calculation of eco profile regarding fossil based polymers.

In order to assure success, the company has teamed up with PE INTERNATIONAL, one of the reputed LCA consultants of the world. PE INTERNATIONAL works by reviewing the modeling work and methodology with upstream data by the company. As per the recently calculated eco-profiles for Ingeo biopolymer, PS, PP, PC and PET represents smaller emission of greenhouse gases.

NatureWorks to plan its economy with the development of bioplastics

With the day by day increasing demand of manufacturing groups to work for development of sustainable products, NatureWorks has secured good position in the list of top bioplastics developers. The company develops Ingeo, bio-based plastic made up of plants in Nebraska. Selling the sustainable bioplastic, the company is following an excellent combination of competitive price, performance and perfection. During the upcoming year, the company is planning to bring the project towards next step where the price and performance of the product will be able to compete with oil-based incumbents. According to Marc Verbruggen, the CEO of NatureWorks, the company is planning to increase the global footprint of its production platform.

Read more about the interview of Marc Verbruggen here at - http://www.biofuelsdigest.com/bdigest/2014/08/25/4-minutes-with-marc-verbruggen-ceo-NatureWorks/

More about the bioplastic industry and current economy, Marc Verbruggen stated that the industry needs to spell out clearly about its different status from other industries such as bio-fuel industry as it is relevant to feedstocks. The company requires eliminating lots of misconceptions and misguided policies for moving forward to attain success. Production of Ingeo is one of the great commercial successes till now the company achieved. Also, this product is targeting to improve the life status of many people through carbon footprint or safe chemicals.

Bio-based chemical industry is growing with the NatureWorks valuable Ingeo project

With the requirement of technical development and sustainable energy solutions, everyone is focusing over bio-based industry and chemistry nowadays. According to Steve Davies, the Director of public affairs NatureWorks, bio-based chemistry has attained good position in the international market. The market demand and increasing requirement of getting alternatives for conventional energy sources motivates researchers to discover new options with the bio-based raw materials. Long term growth potential can be judged with variety of factors regarding performance, price, channel development, feedstock diversity and production ability.

Read more about this matter here at - http://greenchemicalsblog.com/2014/08/14/natureworks-interviewed-by-specialchem4bio/

NatureWorks is working hard to find the process of converting methane into lactic acid directly under an R&D contract. This research will help the company to find a feasible way to simplify the Ingeo manufacturing route. Ingeo is competitive for other resins for its performance, competitive price, low carbon footprint. The product is identified by multiple users and producers where performance is the utmost demand. The second plant of the company will be set up with the idea of using sugarcane or cassava for manufacturing of Ingeo. The company is investing in a joint technology development program with Calysta for the feasibility of methane conversion. Alternative feedstocks for Ingeo will support for price stability.

NatureWorks and Calysta shall work together to develop bioplastics straightly from methane

The US Based company Calysta Energy Incorporation & NatureWorks LLC is announcing their research of fermentation of methane gas in which they are looking at the conversion of methane gas into the industrial chemical lactic acid building the blocks for the need of bioplastics. Generally methane is generated by the decomposition of waste components of plants and creatures as well as by the landfill organic waste and waste water treatment. It’s a long time process.

If the artificial transformation of methane gas into lactic acid gets successful then it will be great source of feedstock of carbon. The Calysta energy inc. are presenting the utilization of significant greenhouse gases by the transformation of it into industrial and high value chemicals like lactic acid. This approach is very demonstrative to the real power of biology in comparison to the chemical transformation because it would be really costly to make lactic acid from the methane gas by the transformation using traditional catalysts; although sugarcane and corn are also a good source of carbon feedstock.

In fact nowadays Ingeo is rely on sugarcane as well as corn for the feed stocking of carbon. It is finding the feasibility of methane gas as a feedstock of lactic acid and may take up on five years long. For more information please see website ~ http://www.plasticsnews.com/article/20140327/NEWS/140329888/natureworks-calysta-to-work-jointly-to-develop-bioplastics-directly

Bioplastics will bring about a sustainable future

After much hardship, Mark Herrema and his company Newlight have finally been able to produce pellets of plastic called Air Carbon from methane gas, which is a common by-product on farms. In 2012, an estimated 288 million metric tons of plastic was produced in comparison to the 99 million metric tons produced in the year 1989. With the reduction in fossil fuel resources, a lot people are looking into producing plastics out of renewable sources.

Conventional plastics take a lot of time to decompose and when discarded, they tend to cause a lot of harm to the environment. Newlight has created a material that has the potential to be used in automobile parts, packaging, electronics etc. It is supposed to be used later this year to produce mobile cases for Virgin Mobile and plastic chairs for KI furniture.

Methane is 21 times more harmful to the atmosphere than CO₂ and when it is used to make plastic which is long lasting it is benefitting the environment even more as there is no methane released in the atmosphere. However, methane is not the only compound which can be used to create plastics. In Nebraska, NatureWorks is using the sugar from corn to produce Ingeo through fermentation.

Methane is still a better compound for the manufacture of plastic as the production process is more environmentally beneficial and there is no food-fuel debate around it.

Coca Cola is one of the biggest consumers of conventional plastic and has asked 3 firms to try and produce completely renewable plastic. One of these firms is Englewood based Gevo. In 2010, a Brazilian petrochemical company called Braskem started using sugar cane to derive ethanol and use it to produce polyethylene which is the most frequently used plastic. Now, this company makes Pantene Nature Fusion shampoo bottles, Odwalla juice bottles and hard hats (safety equipment).

Source: http://www.eenews.net/stories/1059993608

Major issues of 3D filaments addressed by NatureWorks to enhance quality and 3D printing experience

Poor quality filament in the industry of 3D printer movement is always a rough patch. In other words, the excellent image quality and better printing experience in 3D printing can be achieved with high-end quality of printer nanofilament when it comes to consistency, roundness and diameter. Due to lack of quality control equipment like online laser scanning and expertise, new entrants often face problems.

http://www.themoldingblog.com/2013/12/10/irish-startup-tackles-quality-problems-with-3d-filaments/ has recently reported that NatureWorks, bioplastics powerhouse, is giving support to an innovative technology in Ireland which boasts of advanced and talented research team in 3DOM Filament Limited that is targeted at PLA or polylactic acid.

This is nothing but a trademarked Ingeo whose logo will be allowed to carry with this nanofilament family for the first time in history. It was none other than NatureWorks which originally developed commercial manufacturing of PLA.

The company insists that although 3DOM is newer in existence but experience of the research team will allow the PLA to transcend all printing issues in the 3D market. This is also the company which will invest its manpower and efforts to develop additives, blends and enhancements for Ingeo logo as per the sayings of Dan Sawyer, Global Leader for the company utters.

The forum of International Ingeo Users will also include the topic of advancements in 3D printing technology with bioplastics.