BIOPOLYMERS & PACKAGING

With the increasing concern for environmental protection, plastics manufacturers have been reassessing raw materials, technologies and procedures for the production of polymers, with promising results in the field of biopolymers and nanotech polymers. 

SMILAB laboratories are equipped with advanced instruments for the study of innovative materials, capable of both enhancing the physical and mechanical features of polymers and creating new combinations for many industrial fields involved in the technological research, such as aeronautics, aerospace, transport, traditional and renewable energies, food and packaging. 

SMILAB recently developed a project in the packaging sector with the feasibility study and the prototyping of a 1.5 L bottle in PLA, a vegetable biopolymer replacing thermoplastic polymers like PET.