A new big discovery from the Bio-on laboratories: also from the used cooking oil comes the bioplastic
10 Settembre 2018 - 08:00AM
A new big discovery from the Bio-on laboratories: also from the
used cooking oil comes the bioplastic
- Waste oil is added to the "raw materials" already used to
produce Bio-on bioplastic: beet molasses and sugar cane, fruit and
potato wastes, carbohydrates in general and crude glycerol.
- A new discovery that transforms a waste element, which today
has high disposal costs and a huge environmental impact, into a
"raw material" for the production of bioplastics.
- For the first time the carbon source that feeds the Bio-on
bioplastic production process is of a lipid nature.
- The discovery of Bio-on researchers allows to tap into the huge
quantities of waste frying oil that are produced in particular in
North America and Asia.
BOLOGNA (ITALY) 10th
September 2018 - Bio-on,
listed on the AIM segment of the Italian Stock Market - Borsa
Italiana and operating in the sector of bioplastic of high quality,
presents a new big discovery: it is possible to use waste cooking
oils for the production of Minerv PHAs, the revolutionary
biopolymer of Bio-on, organic and 100% biodegradable.
"This important news is the result of two years
of research activities and allows Bio-on to draw on the enormous
quantities of this waste - explains Marco Astorri,
President and CEO of Bio-on - especially in
markets such as North America and Asia, where the consumption of
fried foods is high and the amount of exhausted oil exceeds,
according to our estimate, one billion liters per day. A
waste product, which must be disposed and treated with high costs,
also environmental, becomes a "raw material" to feed the bacteria
that produce PHA bioplastics according to the completely natural
Bio-on process".
The waste cooking oil is added to the "raw
materials" already used to produce Bio-on bioplastics (beet
molasses and sugar cane, fruit and potato wastes, carbohydrates in
general and crude glycerol) but, for the first time, the carbon
source which feeds the biopolymer production process is of a lipid
nature. Thanks to a preventive treatment systems for exhausted
frying oil, the bioplastic produced has the same characteristics as
that generated from other wastes, co- and by-products of
agro-industrial productions. This discovery is made by Business
Unit RAF (Recovery and Fermentation) in the new
Bio-on plant in Castel San Pietro Terme, Bologna Italy.
As is known, all the Minerv PHA
bioplastics (polyhydroxyalkanoates) developed by Bio-on
are made from renewable plant sources (and now also lipid) without
any competition with the food chains. They guarantee the same
thermo-mechanical properties of conventional plastics with the
advantage of being eco-friendly and 100% naturally biodegradable.
In addition, they offer application possibilities, even completely
unpublished, in sectors where traditional plastics are not
used.
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Bio-on S.p.A.
Bio-on S.p.A., an Italian Intellectual Property
Company (IPC), operates in the bioplastic sector conducting applied
research and development of modern bio-fermentation technologies in
the field of eco-sustainable and completely naturally biodegradable
materials. In particular, Bio-on develops industrial applications
through the creation of product characterisations, components and
plastic items. Since February 2015, Bio-on S.p.A. has also been
operating in the development of natural and sustainable chemicals
for the future. Bio-on has developed an exclusive process for the
production of a family of polymers called PHAs
(polyhydroxyalkanoates) from agricultural waste (including molasses
and sugar cane and sugar beet syrups). The bioplastic produced in
this way is able to replace the main families of traditional
plastics in terms of performance, thermo-mechanical properties and
versatility. Bio-on PHAs is a bioplastic that can be classified as
100% natural and completely biodegradable: this has been certified
by Vincotte and by USDA (United States Department of Agriculture).
The Issuer's strategy envisages the marketing of licenses for PHAs
production and related ancillary services, the development of
R&D (also through new collaborations with universities,
research centres and industrial partners), as well as the
realisation of industrial plants designed by Bio-On.
- CS-63-Bio-on-WASTE-OIL-EN