Teijin Frontier’s Biofront polylactic acid (PLA) resin, which biodegrades faster in oceans, rivers and soil compared to ...

It now says the material it uses, known as PLA (polylactic acid), is "not a plastic in the way we believe people most commonly think of plastics". Clipper boxes are still labelled "plastic-free".

BIOFRONT® resin aligns with Teijin Frontier’s THINK ECOⓇ environmental strategy and joins the company’s wide range of ...

The monomers can then be reused for manufacturing new plastic items. One wonders if this could also be used in another way – perhaps in a multimaterial printer, allowing PLA to be used for ...

Ruth Cardinaels is showing how PLA can be successfully mixed with another ... layers at the interfaces between the different polymer phases (ICIC strategy). The study is published in the journal ...

But in Europe, the term is clearly defined -- a bioplastic is a polymer that is both biosourced and compostable, either in soil or industrially. Not all bioplastics completely degrade under natural ...

TOKYO – Japanese fibre manufacturer Teijin Frontier has confirmed the global roll-out of its Biofront polylactic acid (PLA) ...

As it turns out, the additives that create these changes in coloring and transparency also affect the base properties of the polymer, whether it’s PLA, PETG, or another material. This is where a ...

The cardboard completely decomposes in three to six weeks, compared to three months for untreated cardboard and hundreds of years for cardboard lined with a kind of plastic known as PLA.