American bio-based plastics developer, NatureWorks LLC has achieved a manufacturing breakthrough with its plant-based Ingeo™ plastics. As per the company release, a new proprietary manufacturing process commissioned late last year lowers CO2 emissions by 60% and reduces by 30% the energy required for production of Ingeo™ plastics compared to previous manufacturing process. Compared to the process of manufacturing PET (polyethylene terephthalate) which emits 3.4 kilograms of CO2 per kilogram of resin produced, the company claims that new Ingeo™ manufacturing process emits 77% less, with 0.75 kilograms of CO2 per kilogram of resin. The new Ingeo™ production technology also consumes 56% less energy than the equivalent weight of PET. The company claims that this advanced production process, Ingeo™ environmentally outperforms all of the most commonly used petroleum-based plastics, including recycled PET.
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