Issue 06/2021
Highlights: Coating Films, Flexibles, Bags Basics: Cellulose based bioplastics
Highlights:
Coating
Films, Flexibles, Bags
Basics: Cellulose based bioplastics
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Figure 1: Overview of a<br />
simplified cellulose value chain<br />
from biomass<br />
Basics<br />
be synthesized. PLA originates from lactic acid while PBS<br />
has its origin from succinic acid as a building block.<br />
Under certain conditions these biopolymers are<br />
biodegradable and thus interesting to the food, packaging,<br />
agro- and textile industry especially. On the other hand,<br />
drop-in solutions such as polyethylene furanoate (PEF)<br />
from bio-MEG and 5 HMF based FDCA present a suitable<br />
option for the industry as PEF is currently known to be a<br />
perfect replacement of polyethylene terephthalate (PET).<br />
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www.ita.rwth-aachen.de<br />
INGRAIN, short for “Spitze im Westen: Innovationsbündnis<br />
Agrar-Textil-Lebensmittel” (Innovation Alliance – Agro-Textile-Nutrition)<br />
has a set goal to upcycle residual streams to<br />
valuables and nutrition. Since the approval by the German<br />
Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) in<br />
late August <strong>2021</strong>, the project focuses on and around the<br />
westernmost administrative district in Germany, the rural<br />
district of Heinsberg (State: North Rhine-Westphalia), which<br />
has been characterized by various structural changes for<br />
decades including the decline of the formerly formative<br />
textile industry, end of coal mining, including its regional<br />
neighbourhood. With a possible funding capped at EUR 15<br />
million for a duration of 6 years, INGRAIN focuses to create<br />
a biobased circular economy within that project region.<br />
The program will be self-governed by the key consortium<br />
creating a new approach to fast-track projects that are of<br />
high importance to the overall goal. The key consortium<br />
consists of the Wirtschaftsförderungsgesellschaft für den<br />
Kreis Heinsberg mbH, Institute of Textile technology and<br />
Chair for Information Management in Material Engieering<br />
of the RWTH Aachen University, Niederrhein University of<br />
Applied Sciences Mönchengladbach as well as Rhine-Waal<br />
University of Applied Sciences Kleve. In this program, cellulose<br />
among other important resources is of high interest<br />
due to the mass flux within and around the project region.[1]<br />
By:<br />
Sea-Hyun, Lee<br />
Scientific Assistant<br />
Institut für Textiltechnik RWTH Aachen University<br />
Aachen, Germany<br />
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