{"id":2609,"date":"2022-04-14T13:55:03","date_gmt":"2022-04-14T11:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sc2leje1101.universe.wf\/3d-printing-francofil-and-natureplast-recover-by-products\/"},"modified":"2025-03-25T09:19:47","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T08:19:47","slug":"3d-printing-francofil-and-natureplast-recover-by-products","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/natureplast.eu\/en\/3d-printing-francofil-and-natureplast-recover-by-products\/","title":{"rendered":"3D PRINTING: FRANCOFIL AND NATUREPLAST RECOVER BY-PRODUCTS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/francofil.fr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FRANCOFIL<\/a>\u00a0is a French company located in Normandy and specialized in the production of technical filaments for the\u00a0<strong>3D printing<\/strong>\u00a0sector.<\/p>\n<p>On top of the development of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/natureplast.eu\/en\/matiere\/pla-polylactide\/\">PLA (polylactic acid)<\/a>\u00a0filaments, FRANCOFIL has recently expanded its portfolio with the recovery of\u00a0<strong>by-products<\/strong>\u00a0like seashells, coffee grounds, wheat or even cocoa from different sectors (agriculture, catering, etc.), under the form of fillers in PLA.<\/p>\n<p>Using by-products is a way to promote a circular economy by giving a new life to these wastes but also to bring a\u00a0<strong>special aesthetic<\/strong>\u00a0to the end-products with new effects and textures.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10097\" src=\"https:\/\/natureplast.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_20190521_153049-1024x768.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/natureplast.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_20190521_153049-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/natureplast.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_20190521_153049-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/natureplast.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_20190521_153049-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/natureplast.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_20190521_153049-1320x990.jpg 1320w\" alt=\"3D Printing\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>A NORMAN PARTNERSHIP<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>FRANCOFIL has thus worked in collaboration with NaturePlast, expert in bioplastics, to develop its filaments based on PLA and by-products. Besides the formulation and compounding steps, NaturePlast has proceeded to the\u00a0<strong>by-product\u2019s treatment<\/strong>\u00a0notably grinding and sieving. This step is essential in order to work with particles of sufficiently fine sizes and to not disturb the compounding and then the filaments users.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<strong>3D printing<\/strong>\u00a0field is growing fast today and more and more sectors like the medical or the automotive area use this type of process to produce their products. France 3, a French TV channel, has recently dedicated a reporting to FRANCOFIL:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3Vt66DwVU1k?feature=oembed\" width=\"825\" height=\"464\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>PLA, A 3D PRINTING STANDARD<\/h2>\n<p>Today, PLA is one of the most used materials\u00a0 in this sector. Indeed, it has several advantages like a good capacity to be\u00a0<strong>3D printed<\/strong>\u00a0(like ABS) and a good finish quality that makes it a good choice of material for this process. Its thermal properties also make it unnecessary to use high printing temperatures, or a hot plate due to its low shrinkage during printing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10099\" src=\"https:\/\/natureplast.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_1815-1024x768.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/natureplast.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_1815-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/natureplast.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_1815-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/natureplast.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_1815-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/natureplast.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_1815-1320x990.jpg 1320w\" alt=\"3D Printing\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This project is a new opportunity to put forward the possibility of use of different by-products for NaturePlast and its partners. These developments demonstrate the\u00a0<strong>capacity of by-products and waste to be recovered in the industry<\/strong>\u00a0by making innovative solutions available to the plastics industry.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>About us:<\/strong>\u00a0NaturePlast is a french company based in Normandy (IFS-14), specialized in bioplastics. With more than 10 years of experience in this field, the company has the most extensive portfolio of raw materials and biobased and\/or biodegradable compounds in Europe. With its daughter company BiopolyNov, they provide support to industrialists from the origin to the industrialisation of their innovative project. Thanks to their R&amp;D expertise acquired during the years, NaturePlast and BiopolyNov are renowned major player in the development and production of formulations for clients and collaborative projects.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FRANCOFIL\u00a0is a French company located in Normandy and specialized in the production of technical filaments for the\u00a03D printing\u00a0sector. On top of the development of\u00a0PLA (polylactic acid)\u00a0filaments, FRANCOFIL has recently expanded its portfolio with the recovery of\u00a0by-products\u00a0like seashells, coffee grounds, wheat or even cocoa from different sectors (agriculture, catering, etc.), under the form of fillers in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1237,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bioplastics-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/natureplast.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/natureplast.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/natureplast.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=2609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/natureplast.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6706,"href":"https:\/\/natureplast.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2609\/revisions\/6706"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/natureplast.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/natureplast.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/natureplast.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/natureplast.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}