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(Plastemart) -- Penford Corporation, a company with
significant business and expertise in specialty starches and sustainable
bio-products and Novomer Inc., a new materials company pioneering a family of
high-performance plastics and polymers using renewable feedstocks such as carbon
dioxide, announce that they have entered into a Joint Development Agreement that
will leverage the two companies’ core technologies and expertise. The new
alliance was created to accelerate the development and commercialization of
innovative Starch-Polypropylene Carbonate polymer composites.
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Unmodified starch use has been limited due to inherent performance
characteristics but has long been targeted as a cost effective, renewable
material for a broad range of packaging applications.
When modified, specialty
starches can be compatible with other polymers to extend the use and modify the
properties of those polymers for targeted uses.
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Polypropylene Carbonate (PPC), a thermoplastic polymer composed of nearly
50% by weight of waste CO2, has superior mechanical and barrier properties and a
chemical backbone that is compatible and likely synergistic with specialty
modified starch. It is anticipated that the creation of starch-PPC composites
will yield low cost, environmentally sustainable packaging polymers suitable for
the multi-billion dollar global packaging materials market.
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