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News
| June 24, 2011

Global biopolymers market expected to grow to 2.4 billion lb by 2016

Bioplastics market is predicted to grow at a five-year CAGR of 22%, despite current drawbacks of high prices and lack of composting infrastructure.
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Column/Opinion
| June 9, 2011

Interpack insights

Some 166,000 visitors roamed the aisles of 19 exhibition halls at interpack last month. 
News
| June 9, 2011

P&G partners with cellulosic ethanol firm

Procter & Gamble and ZeaChem will research, develop and demonstrate, scale-up, and commercialize new ‘drop-in’ bio-based chemicals and other products.
Denise Lefebvre
Package Case Study
| June 7, 2011

PepsiCo elaborates on new green PET bottle technology

Denise Lefebvre, director of Advanced Research – Beverage Packaging, for PepsiCo reveals additional details on the announcement of a 100% plant-based PET bottle expected to pilot in 2012.
Package Case Study
| May 27, 2011

Danone first to switch to PLA for yogurt cup in Germany

Moving from polystyrene to PLA, Danone will improve the packaging carbon footprint for its Activia brand by 25% and will use 43% less fossil resources.
Stonyfield Farm makes studied switch to PLA for yogurt multipacks
 Video | November 27, 2010

Stonyfield Farm makes studied switch to PLA for yogurt multipacks

In a first for dairy, Stonyfield uses PLA to produce f/f/s yogurt cups, resulting in 48% less GHGs than the HIPS packaging it replaces; offsets support non-GM0 corn production.

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