{"id":6976,"date":"2024-11-06T14:01:49","date_gmt":"2024-11-06T13:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sc2leje1101.universe.wf\/bioplastics\/the-bioplastics-market\/"},"modified":"2025-05-19T14:00:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T12:00:08","slug":"the-bioplastics-market","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/natureplast.eu\/en\/bioplastics\/the-bioplastics-market\/","title":{"rendered":"The bioplastics market"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The market for biobased<\/strong> and\/or biodegradable<\/strong> plastics<\/strong> is constantly evolving. After several years of slow progress, industry and public awareness<\/strong> have enabled the market to turn a corner and enter a much more significant growth phase. This is mainly driven by a sharp increase in the supply of biodegradable polymers<\/strong>, which should ultimately bring total production<\/strong> capacity to 7.5 MT<\/strong> per year by 2028, i.e. more than 3 times current production capacity<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Biobased and\/or biodegradable polymers should then account for over 2% of the world’s<\/strong> polymer production capacity<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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An ever wider range of applications<\/mark><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The polymers<\/strong> with the biggest market shares today are PLA<\/strong> and the family of biobased polyamides<\/strong>, closely followed by PTT (partially biobased polyesters) and biobased PE.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Developments over the next few years should finally see an increase in the supply of PHAs<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nor is it surprising that the bulk of the bioplastics market<\/strong> is concentrated on packaging applications<\/strong>, both flexible and rigid, which today account for over half of all outlets.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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One of the most promising areas is 3D printing<\/strong>, where bioplastics play a key role. Using biodegradable filaments<\/strong>, for example, this technology makes it possible to create customized objects with fascinating prospects for the manufacture of personalized parts in a variety of fields, from medicine to everyday objects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Matching the end-of-life properties <\/strong>of bioplastics to their intendeduse<\/strong> is also increasingly sought after, for example in the agricultural plastics<\/strong> sector and in the biodegradability of certain materials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lastly, the technological innovations developed as part of our R&D projects <\/strong>will eventually enable us to obtain biobased plastics from waste and by-products<\/strong>, thus contributing to better waste management and reduced environmental impact.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The market for biobased and\/or biodegradable plastics is constantly evolving. After several years of slow progress, industry and public awareness have enabled the market to turn a corner and enter a much more significant growth phase. This is mainly driven by a sharp increase in the supply of biodegradable polymers, which should ultimately bring total […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":6954,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6976","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/natureplast.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/natureplast.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/natureplast.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/natureplast.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/natureplast.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6976"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/natureplast.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9595,"href":"https:\/\/natureplast.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6976\/revisions\/9595"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/natureplast.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/natureplast.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}