Clariant and Floreon collaborate to expand biopolymer applications

Clariant’s Additives business and Floreon-Transforming Packaging has announced an exciting new collaboration further to extend the performance properties and market potential of biopolymers while preserving their environmental benefits. By integrating benefits of Clariant’s additives with Floreon’s proprietary material solutions, the collaboration aims to open up additional possibilities for plastic manufacturers and brand owners to consider biopolymers as a viable, low carbon footprint alternative to fossil-based plastics for both single-use and durable applications. Markets set to benefit from the new enhanced grades include rigid and flexible packaging, electrical and electronic equipment (E&E), hygiene products, consumer goods, and automotive. Floreon develops and markets proprietary compounds based on Polylactic acid (PLA) and containing 70 to 90% renewable, plant-based raw materials, thus containing carbon sequestered from the atmosphere by plants. They are typically mechanically tougher than traditional PLA and can deliver significant energy savings in processing. Floreon compounds are recyclable, and they can also be composted via industrial composting. That makes Floreon’s materials viable for applications where, at this stage, contamination with food waste and organic matter makes mechanical…

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