With declining oil prices bioplastics will experience increased competition from fossil fuel based, volume plastics …
… particularly in the packaging market. Yet bioplastic companies will continue to demonstrate the same technical marketing business ingenuity they have exhibited over the past 25+ years by specialty feedstock/resin niche market development, by holding in place their existing technology, further focusing on added production efficiencies, and in some limited cases withdrawing from the bioplastic market segment as a result of non-competitiveness. This first Bioplastic Feedstocks article will be followed by a Bioplastic Materials and Bioplastic Applications reviews.
DalinYebo’s Insight: This omnexus.specialchem.com articles provides an impressive overview of new conversion technologies for the manufacture of bio-based plastics. Some biomass-based products have been made since the 1920’s (e.g. Furfural). Furfural is one of the top 30 building blocks for bio-based chemicals and plastics.
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- omnexus.specialchem.com, Don Rosato – Apr 15, 2016 (Stay “connected” & see more Bioplastics Technical and Marketing Insights: Register at Omnexus Green & bio-plastics Channel ! )