Manufacturing Industry
Plans to introduce biodegradable packaging additive.(Update)(from Robinson Brothers)(Brief Article)
British Plastics & Rubber, July, 2003
A DEVELOPMENT project has been started by chemicals manufacturer Robinson Brothers of West Bromwich in association with Aston University, GlaxoSmithKline, Euro Packaging and ThermoPrism, to commercialise a biodegradable additive for packaging.
Robinson had previously led a pan-European project which developed additives to produce a biodegradable polymer with physical properties equivalent to those of 'conventional plastics packaging materials' and which could be processed on standard equipment. The new project will aim to develop and commercialise these materials.
Robinson has scaled up the additive system in its pilot plant and anticipates a full production run before the end of the year, and then addition of the materials to its ROBAC product...
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