Bioplastic Extruder/Research Development

Research

Bioplastics

Cellophane is reformulated cellulose (wood), produced via an acid and base dunk of sawdust. This may be used in glazing. Car bodies may be made; the original car bodies for Ford were soybean-derived bioplastics.

Polylactic acid (PLA) can be made by fermenting starch or with hay in silage.

Mycelium can be placed in a mold with grain husks, wheat straw or any of a wide variety of other biomass (with different end product results) and be made into a variety of useful products, including a durable closed cell foam substitute.

Links

• plastics extrusion
• Wikipedia: Plastics Extrusion
• Wikipedia: Thermoforming
• Wikipedia: Vacuum Forming
• Wikipedia: Injection Molding
• Strictly Extrusion
• Society of Plastics Engineers
• SPE Online Technical Library
  • Emails to SPE

See Also

• Waste Plastic Extruder: Literature Review
• Bioplastics
• Plastic Extrusion & Molding
• Upper Austria Green Biorefinery
• Polyethylene from Ethanol