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(GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Northern
Technologies International Corporation, a manufacturer of sustainable biobased
and certified compostable bioplastic materials, announced that it has entered
into an agreement with Italy based Naturfuels S.r.l. to distribute its
Natur-Tec(R) bioplastic materials and products in the Italian market.
Since January 1, 2011, the Italian government has been enforcing a ban on
the production and distribution of conventional non-biodegradable polyethylene plastic bags. Italian consumers use
about 300 plastic bags per capita annually, totaling to more than 20 billion
plastic bags consumed every year. According to environmental lobbyist
Legambiente, this number of bags represents approximately one-fifth of Europe's
entire usage, and requires about 200 KT of polyethylene plastic resin to
produce each year.
Under the terms of the distribution agreement, NTIC will supply
Naturfuels with its patented high-strength Natur-Tec(R) BF703BX compostable film
grade resin to be used for the production of bio-plastic shopping and garbage
bags on conventional plastic film production equipment. BF703BX resin based film
has been previously certified to be fully compostable in strict accordance to
the European standard of EN13432 for compostable plastics by AIB-Vincotte, a
respected Belgian 3rd-party certification provider.
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