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Abstract:
The use of bioplastics is currently limited
by the narrow range of properties available to
product designers and manufacturers of products.
This presentation will explore the ways in which
the properties can be expanded to provide performance
tailored to markets for durable and degradable
products without compromising the fundamental
characteristics associated with bioplastics. The
presentation will cover the types of bioplastics
and their key properties and limitations; blends
of bioplastics and their new performance limits;
toughening systems for brittle bioplastics; plasticizers
for bioplastics; fillers (particulate and fibrous);
masterbatching principles; and processing bioplastics
for maximum performance.
Presenter:
Edward Kosior, NEXTEK Pty Ltd.
Edward Kosior has been involved in plastics
and rubber technology for 30 years. In 2004 he
established Nextek Pty Ltd to provide new technical
solutions to the environmental and recycling challenges
facing the polymer industry. Currently he is the
managing director of Nextek Ltd and the technical
director of Closed Loop London, which is establishing
London’s first plastics-recycling plant.
He is also the director of Vernique Biotech Ltd,
which is developing epoxy oils derived from the
vernonia plant; he is an adjunct professor of
Polymer Engineering and Recycling at Swinburne
University, Melbourne, Australia; and at Visy
Industries Pty., he has been involved in the planning,
construction, commissioning, and expansion of
Australia’s foremost post-consumer plastics-recycling
plants. Novel processes for recycling waste PET,
developed by him at Visy Plastics and in the U.K.,
have received approval for use in food-contact
applications from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration
(FDA), as has a novel process for the recycling
of HDPE milk bottles to food-grade milk-bottle
resin.
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