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".

The most popular plastic for 3D printers is PLA – polylactic acid – a plastic that’s either derived from corn starch, inedible plant detritus, or sugar cane, depending where in the world it ...

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 ...

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

Ruth Cardinaels is showing how PLA can be successfully mixed with another ... layers at the interfaces between the different ...

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 ...

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.