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Plastics Technology, 2007-12-06, Foamed PLA Shows Promise In Biodegradable Meat Trays
...stries in France. PLA meat trays also appeared in a market test last summer at Wild Oats markets in Colorado. The test was interrupted when Wild Oats was bought by Whole Foods but was recently resumed...

Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Evolution, Not Revolution
.... Thomas Seul, born in 1969, works as a scientist at the Institute for Plastics Processing (IKV) at the RWTH Aachen. Contact: seul@ikv.rwth-aachen.de Fig. 1. Global demand for models and prototypes (source: Wohlers Associates, Ford Collins, Colorado/USA) Fig. 2. How layer milling works (photo: Zimmermann, Denkendorf) Fig. 3. Colour-printed prototype (photo: 4D Concepts, Großgerau) Fig. 4. Prototype made by the Perfactory process (photo: Envisiontec, Marl) Fig. 5. Optimised process chain fo...

Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Packaging: The Compostable Water Bottle
...ble water bottle made of a starch-based polylactic acid (PLA) is on the market. Husky worked hand-in-hand with Biota Brands of America Inc., Cargill Dow LLC and SIG Corpoplast to develop a fully compostable bottle for Biota’s new line of premium Colorado spring water. The bottle is compatible with all municipal/industrial composting facilities, according to Cargill Dow LLC, which manufactures the corn-derived polymer NatureWorks PLA. “A Breakthrough” “We feel this application is a breakthrough”...

Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Project “Colorado”: Rapid Prototypes for Rapid Cars
Rapid Prototyping Rapid Prototypes for Rapid Cars Project “Colorado”. It holds as early as product development that: the closer the plastic prototype is to the original in material, form and function, the more accurate and the more reliable are the real-world tests. The patented ”Space Puzzle Molding” prototyping process provides parts to meet such demanding requirements even before production begins, for instance, for the Porsche “Colorado”. Wolfgang G. Trapp While what is today the Porsche C...

Kunststoffe international, 2011-09-23, Resource Efficient Lightweight Design for Mass Production
...o crucial prerequisites must be fulfilled in order to provide for efficiency: the laying process must be automated, and material throughput must be sufficiently high. The Relay technique developed by Fiberforge Corp., Glenwood Springs, Colorado, USA, meets both these requirements. Layers of pre-impregnated UD tapes are placed on a movable table to form a fabric. The orientation of the tapes (i.e. the fibers) can thus be adjusted almost infinitely to the respective case of load via the table rota...

Kunststoffe international, 2013-02-22, Is the Future of Plastics “Green”?
...e. In 2011, Coca-Cola announced a technology partnership with biotechnology companies to make 100 % biobased polyester bottles. In a joint development with Virent Inc., Madison, Wisconsin, USA, and Gevo Inc., Douglas County, Colorado, USA, the terephthalic acid will be obtained from biotechnically produced p-xylene. These biobased bioPET bottles have the same properties as bottles produced from conventional PET and can be integrated into the existing PET recycling system. In a cooperation agreem...

Kunststoffe international, 2014-08-19, New Ideas and Political Markets
...capable, entirely biobased and recyclable polymer may be achieved faster than the previous approach promises. It, too, is making progress: besides Bio-MEG, biotech companies, such as Gevo Inc. of Douglas County, Colorado, USA, Global Bioenergies of Evry, France, or Virent Inc. of Madison, Wisconsin, USA are researching how to make TPA from biomass. They are receiving millions of dollars for it from investment projects. In January, Toray Industries Inc. of Tokyo, Japan, announced that they are sh...

Kunststoffe international, 2015-10-12, Lightweight Construction Boosts Compression Molding
...omic alternative to the HP-RTM process, Dieffenbacher is presently building new highly automated wet compression molding lines for BMW (Fig. 1). In the field of thermoplastic matrix materials, the takeover of Fiberforge Inc. in Glenwood Springs, Colorado, USA has added a future-oriented plant concept for manufacturing components made of endless fiber-reinforced thermoplastics from unidirectional fiber tapes to the company’s product portfolio. In this way, and together with research partner Fraun...