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Article: NPE2009: bioplastics have moved into the mainstream.(NORTH AMERICA: NPE2009)(Society for the Plastics Industry)
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- Plastics Engineering
- Article date:
- June 1, 2009
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Once the stuff of pure I research, bioplastics have become a fast-growing business for marketers and technologists in the mainstream of the plastics industry. NPE2009, the central event in the industry's calendar, will stand as a milestone in this historical transition, according to The Society of the Plastics Industry, Inc. (SPI), producer of the triennial NPE.
NPE2009 will be a showcase and technology exchange for polymers derived from corn, castor beans, soybeans, potatoes, tapioca, and other natural resources. Three raw-material companies will report on new ventures for manufacturing bioplastics. Thirty-nine companies, agencies, and industry consortia will ...