Trend-setting are durable and non-degradable bioplastics without fiber reinforcement - substituting fossil synthesis materials with elastic porperties. The company Hauptner & Herberholz GmbH from Solingen aims at developing highly stressable plastics based on renewable primary products. At the example of earmarks for animals, it invented and tested especially long durable and highly usable bioplastics.
Due to their particular durability these earmarks are a very good example for the use of bioplastics in upscale market segments: even PVC materials contained in in bank cards, SmartCards or ID cards could be ecologically substituted henceforth. World-wide, thermoplastic elastomers achieved an approximately 8 percent share of the entire plastics market.
Agriculture and environment benefit
The new, durable bioplastics can replace fossil plastics and spare fossil resources like crude oil. Agriculture and environment benefit from that simultaneously because agrarian raw materials as renewable resources facilitate a sustainable recycling-based economy. At the end of their use, bioplastics can be sent for a largely CO2-free thermal recovery. Long-lived bioplastics contribute to reducing the damaging greenhouse-effect and the global warming.
