BioCor LLC, located in Concord, Calif., has announced that it has launched a new venture to purchase, aggregate and process post-consumer polylactic acid (PLA). The company cited broad and growing ...

Futerro, an affiliate of the Belgian lactic acid maker Galactic, plans to build a polylactic acid (PLA) plant in Port-Jérôme, in the Normandy region of France. The biobased-polymer facility will ...

QUINCY, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Myriant Corporation announced today that it has made substantial progress towards the production of cost-competitive bio-acrylic acid made from renewable feedstocks.

A new method to produce strong, biodegradable plastic from bamboo is reported in Nature Communications this week. The bioplastic resembles oil-based plastics in strength, shapability, and thermal ...

Researchers in Singapore from the Agency for Science, Technology and Research's (A*STAR) Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE) and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) have found ...