Renewable Capa for bioplastics launched

Performance and biodegradability are two special qualities that are now required from plastic products. To meet these requirements,  Perstorp launched the world’s first renewable Capa™ for Bioplastics, a concept built on the Capa™ Lactide technology which enables high renewable content in combination with vast opportunities to develop products with optimized performance for various bioplastic applications.

Every minute 1 million plastic bags are used around the world and many of them end up in nature and stay there. With Perstorp’s renewable Capa™ for Bioplastics those bags will biodegrade.

Moreover, the renewable Capa™ concept enables freedom to design polymers that are flexible or hard, transparent or crystalline, tough or rigid and with a targeted melting point and polarity. Market indications show that these products are likely to deliver what many customers are looking for in terms of bio-based content and performance. Renewable Capa™ has been evaluated both in terms of compostability and bio-based content and is also certified as bio-based by the independent Belgian certification body Vinçotte.

“This is a major milestone in delivering breakthrough technology to this important market for Perstorp,” according to Marie Grönborg, Executive Vice President, Business Area Specialties & Solutions. Perstorp is highly optimistic of the bioplastic market which still is young, fast growing and is looking for new innovations. With an annual estimated growth of 20% (European Bioplastics 2015), this is an exciting market for us to be in”, Ms. Grönborg adds.

Perstorp will continue to focus its efforts on three fast-growing bioplastic segments – paper coatings, bags and films, and packaging. It is already well established that Capa™ for Bioplastics is a biopolymer enhancer that offer stability and compatibility, improved mechanical properties, flexibility at low temperatures, and biodegradability. This effort is supported by Perstorp’s full industrial production and pilot facilities in Warrington, U.K. and its modern Swedish innovation center in Perstorp, for bioplastic formulations.