NEW YORK, May 25, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Sustainable
development is one of the major challenges of our century at a
political, economic, environmental and societal level. The
depletion of natural resources, fossil fuels (coal, oil and natural
gas) and the destruction of ecosystems (fauna, flora, water, air
and soil) force the industrial companies to develop their
processes, adapt to new regulations, and look for substitute
products.
The search for a circular economy, in contradiction with the linear
model: "take, make, dispose", has as objectives to reintegrate
nutrients into the biosphere (biological nutrients) or to reuse
them without producing pollutants (technical nutrients) .The
bio-plastics cycle presents a real alternative to close-loop
recycling starting and ending with the ground.
Bio-plastics are made from organic elements, creating a simple
recycling process. These plastics, derived from plant matter, refer
to two types of materials: firstly the agro-plastics from renewable
resources, starch extracts from cereals (wheat, maize), glucose,
vegetable oil (sugar cane, castor oil) and potatoes; and secondly
the biodegradable plastics obtained by incorporating various
compounds in a resin, often the result of petrochemical
reactions.
Bio-plastics present solutions to waste management thanks to their
biodegradable characteristics (compostable). They also present
economic advantages (fewer steps in the industrial recycling
processes), and help to limit the use of fossil fuels. Experts are
now talking about the second generation of bio-plastics and are
working on creating bio-plastics from non-food resources.
Featuring 30 companies' profiles such as The Coca-Cola
Company and RIKEN, and 30 R&D Laboratories
such as the Department of Plant Agriculture of
University of Guelph, or the
School of Engineering of the University of Guelph, this report is ideal for
anyone wanting:
- Identify R&D Partners,
- Obtain IP & Technologic Intelligence,
- Develop your R&D Partnerships,
- And also benchmark competitors.
…all on a global scale.
You will also find 50 expert's profiles, containing their
scientific works and details of their field of expertise.
These Key Innovation Leaders are based across the 3 main
geographical areas around the globe for scientific expertise:
North America (USA, Canada…), Europe (France, Germany…) and Eastern Asia (Japan, Korea, Taiwan…).
For each of them, you will receive a scientific profile
updated at time of order, a selection of focused works and a
presentation of their collaborative partners, as well as an
in-depth explanation of why companies such as The Coca-Cola Company
are leaders on Bioplastic.
A Panorama is composed of:
- A global overview of the subject (issues, distribution of
sources of expertise, international networks, European projects,
main standards...)
- A selection of scientific profiles of actors (research
centers , companies, experts)
- A selection of targeted works (from 50 different types of
scientific and technical documents from more than 250 data
sources).
Here are some examples of our data sources:
Research institutes databases (NASA, MIT, Fraunhofer, ...)
Patent Databases (European Patent Office, USPTO, ...)
Thematic Databases (MedLine/PubMed, INRA, ...)
Project Databases (Cordis FP-7, FP-6, ...)
Panorama are generated and updated with the unique mapping
technology developed by Expernova, which covers 52 countries.
Expernova data base is constantly growing, so each Panorama updated
at any given time is potentially different from the others Panorama
generated at other times on the same subject.
SCOPE OF THE PANORAMA
pha, lactic acid, ester polymer, renewable resource, wheat gluten,
tensile strength, thermal property, plastic material, anaerobic
biodegradation, water absorption, cellulose acetate, biodegradable
plastic, partial ester
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