BIOPLASTICS COMPOUNDS

Starch is one of the most promising natural polymers because of its inherent biodegradability, overwhelming abundance and annual renewability. Starch is wildly used due to their low material cost and ability to be processed with twin screw compounding extruders. Starch/PLA /PBAT are some of the most common biodegradable compounds used in packaging and agricultural applications.

FLAVIA compounding extruders have been widely used for mineral based bio-degradable compounds. Mineral fillers have always been used with compostable polymers such as PLA/PBAT/PBS to reduce the cost, promote the thermal and dimensional stability of the material, and contain its shrinkage and deformations generated by the conversion processes.