Organic electronics: Bio-on presents Eloxel, to develop the use of bioplastics in the electronics sector. At his side Kartel...
27 Dicembre 2018 - 10:27AM
Organic electronics: Bio-on presents Eloxel, to develop the use of
bioplastics in the electronics sector. At his side Kartell,
strategic partner
- ELOXEL is born (organic electronics for
electronics) the new company created by Bio-on to exploit the
patents destined to revolutionize the world of electronics through
the use of bioplastics. The aim is to enable designers to create
sustainable products and revolutionary applications.
- Kartell through Felofin participates in the
new company ELOXEL with the 50% of capital shares:
a financial operation that pays attention on the new frontier of
organic electronics.
- Bio-on researchers in Italy
and the United States, who have been working in
this field for about 2 years, have discovered that bioplastic can
produce and store electricity as a result of mechanical stress. The
researches confirm the extraordinary versatility of bioplastic: a
platform product that can be used to transform and make the
electronics sector also sustainable with new generation of
batteries and passive energy generators.
- For this activity Bio-on granted to ELOXEL SpA an exclusive
license with a value of Euro 6.500.000,00
Milan (Italy), 27 December 2018
– In the next few years the development of new electronic products
will be based more and more on eco-sustainable organic materials
such as bioplastic, which will allow to realize extremely
innovative solutions. For this reason, Bio-on,
listed on the AIM of Italian Stock Exchange and active in the
high-quality bioplastic sector, announces the establishment of
ELOXEL SpA, of which Bio-on and
Kartell each hold the 50%.
Bio-on with the support of
Kartell accelerates the development of organic electronics
based on Bio-on technologies to quickly acquire a leading position
in this rapidly growing sector. The researches in this
field have already been conducted over 2 years in the Bio-on
laboratories and during this year the first world-wide patents were
deposited based on bioplastic, natural and 100% biodegradable, in
the field of new batteries and full green piezoelectric
materials.
ELOXEL operates in the field of
flexible and wearable organic electronics,
also single-use, to meet the growing need of
consumers to have personal and portable energy always available.
In this context, and exploiting the piezoelectric
properties of Bio-on bioplastic (PHB), namely the ability to
produce and store electrical energy as a result of mechanical
stress, it is possible to develop membranes or devices to be
integrated into clothes and fabrics keeping intact the mechanical
properties or new generation batteries. The
application fields are the most varied, from the consumer
electronic sector to the biomedical one.
The new materials developed by ELOXEL
will also contribute - like all Bio-on
biopolymer-based applications - to limiting the
new environmental emergency created by the huge amount of
electronic waste exacerbated by the fact that current
electronic devices do not allow efficient recycling processes and
often contain highly toxic and hazardous components (e.g. lead /
lithium batteries).
"The investment announced today represents to us
the launch of a new project - explains Marco Astorri,
President and CEO of Bio-on - and we are particularly
proud that a prestigious brand like Kartell,
through Claudio Luti, invests once again in an
innovation plan and in the enormous potential of the technologies
developed by Bio-on in the field of organic
electronics. Smartphones, watches, televisions, computers,
wellness systems and other products have long been part of our
bioplastic development plans, which every day proved to be used in
various industrial sectors to create eco-sustainable products.
“I believed in the new company that Marco
Astorri and his team of scientists presented to me - affirms
Claudio Luti, President of Kartell - choosing to
invest in this project in order to contribute to a growth process
that looks at sustainability and at the protection of environment
and people's health ".
All the biomaterials developed by Bio-on (PHAs
or polyhydroxy-alkanoates and PHBs or poly-hydroxy-butyrates) are
obtained from renewable plant sources without any competition with
food chains up to CO2; in most cases they guarantee the same
thermo-mechanical properties of traditional plastics with the
advantage of being completely eco-friendly and 100% biodegradable
in a natural way. Thanks to the exclusive characteristics of its
materials, Bio-on now extends its use to another of the most
innovative and interesting field of application such as organic
electronics. Electro-conductive plastic with piezoelectric
properties similar to quartz will allow the production of
interesting amounts of energy by mechanical means and the
accumulation in super capacitors (green batteries) to be used in
various applications. The researches in this field of application
are based on PHBs, the only organic material that derives from the
nature having piezoelectric properties.
Felofin completed the acquisition of 50% shares
in ELOXEL SpA. Following the transaction, the share of Bio-on SpA
and FELOFIN is equal to 50.00% each. Bio-on granted to ELOXEL SpA
an exclusive license for the exploitation of organic electronics
with a total value of Euro 6.500.000,00. From 2019
ELOXEL will begin various collaborations with
companies and research centers leading the global electronic
sector.
Press information.
Bio-on: Simona Vecchies - +393351245190
– press@bio-on.it - twitter
@BioOnBioplastic
Kartell: Raffaella Pollini -
+39335284397 – press2@kartell.it
www.eloxel.com
Kartell. A leading design company founded
in Milan in 1949, Kartell has been a symbol of Italian design for
almost 70 years. A success story told through an incredible array
of products - furniture, homeware, lighting - that have become part
of the domestic landscape, not to mention actual contemporary
design icons. Since 1988, Claudio Luti, working alongside some of
the world's most prestigious designers (including Philippe Starck,
Ron Arad, Antonio Citterio, Ferruccio Laviani, Piero Lissoni,
Patricia Urquiola, TokujinYoshioka, Mario Bellini, Alberto Meda),
continues with the same fervour and enthusiasm as the founder,
Giulio Castelli, to seek out new technologies, forms and styles by
seamlessly teaming the experience of designers with the potential
and requirements of the company. The Kartell collection is
multifunctional and broad in its appeal, easy to use and beautiful
to behold. The company operates in the habitat sector, specialising
in furniture, homeware and lighting (the latter being successfully
reintroduced into the range in 2000), but also in contract
furnishings and e-commerce. www.kartell.com
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.
www.bio-on.it
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