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=== Planet Bioplastics === | === Planet Bioplastics === | ||
{{Infobox provider-biocomposite processing|Company=Planet Bioplastics|Country=Italy|Webpage=https://www.planetbioplastics.com}} | {{Infobox provider-biocomposite processing|Company=Planet Bioplastics|Country=Italy|Webpage=https://www.planetbioplastics.com|Image=Logo_PLANETBIOPLASTICS.png|Contact=info@planetbioplastics.com|Technology name=Blend and composite compounding|TRL=6|Application fields=Injection moulding, thermoforming, film production|Capacity=500 ton/y|Matrix=Biopolymers|Other=Not relevant|Feedstock=Bioplymers, additives and natural fibres|Product=Bioplastic pellets}} | ||
Planet Bioplastics is an innovative | |||
Planet Bioplastics is an innovative start-up, spin-off of the University of Pisa founded in 2017 by owners with large experience in production and marketing of polymeric materials. The managerial team, on the academic side, is composed of a professor with strong scientific background on the properties and transformation of biopolymers and with huge experience in National and European projects, carried out both as coordinator and RTO partner. The business side is composed of an expert marketing sales manager and three entrepreneurs, who own a company that carries out recycling and compounding of traditional plastic materials. They have 55 years of specialization in the regeneration and trade of plastic materials, with the mission of reducing non-recoverable plastic waste to the minimum terms and promoting the culture of using regenerated material, significantly reducing the use of virgin raw materials. | |||
This solid academic know-how, combined with the great experience of the managerial team in industrial production and marketing of polymers, provide quick and able answers to the continuous evolution of the technical-legislative needs of circular and sustainable economy, with the aim to bridge the current gap in terms of performance and price between traditional plastic and sustainable solutions. | |||
The company has access to equipment for processing and characterisation at pilot scale in the University of Pisa and in the company Caldara, for industrial scale, producer of recycled plastic compounds, whose owners are even partly owners of PLANET. Beypond the commercialization of its own products, the company plans to be involved in regional, national and European projects with high R&D participation but oriented to obtaining innovative products to propose on the market of bioplastics. Planet Bioplastics is a full Biobased Industries Consortium member and partner of three European H2020 projects. | |||
=== Mi-plast d.o.o. === | === Mi-plast d.o.o. === |