Bioplastic Extruder/Research Development

=Overview=



Bioplastics
Cellophane is reformulated cellulose (wood), produced via an acid and base dunk of sawdust. This may be used in glazing. Car bodies may be made; the original car bodies for Ford were soybean-derived bioplastics.

Polylactic acid (PLA) can be made by fermenting starch or with hay in silage.

Mycelium can be placed in a mold with grain husks, wheat straw or any of a wide variety of other biomass (with different end product results) and be made into a variety of useful products, including a durable closed cell foam substitute.

Links

 * plastics extrusion
 * Wikipedia: Plastics Extrusion
 * Wikipedia: Thermoforming
 * Wikipedia: Vacuum Forming
 * Wikipedia: Injection Molding
 * Strictly Extrusion
 * Society of Plastics Engineers
 * SPE Online Technical Library
 * Emails to SPE