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I actually loved sitting down with Fredrik Malmfors, CEO of Lignin Industries, to speak about how his firm and its patented expertise are taking over fossil primarily based plastics, leveraging good quaint horse sense, provide chains, waste supplies, and … carbon sequestration applied sciences? Because it seems, Sweden-based Lignin Industries is plenty of issues which can be useful to the world.
We get pitched A LOT to get individuals onto the CleanTech Speak podcast — CleanTechnica typically receives 200 pitches in a day to cowl one story or one other, and, more and more, this comes within the type of podcast visitor pitches. Sorting via these and deciding what’s thrilling is a f**king job in itself. However I selected this one due to how smart, sensible, helpful, and useful it was, and in addition as a result of Malmfors stated, in one other article, “we need to break through the fossil domination of the plastics industry.”
The expertise is predicated in lignin, as you may guess from the corporate identify. Lignin is without doubt one of the world’s commonest natural compounds, proper up there with cellulose (the stuff that’s structural and exhausting to digest in lots of plant fibers), and chitin (the stuff that makes bug exoskeletons, which tells you a factor or two about what number of bugs there are on the planet).
Lignin Industries makes use of this prevalent biomaterial, combined in its patented course of with bio-based oils to create Renol, its product, which can be utilized as a drop-in substitute for a lot of in any other case fossil-based plastic components. It has comparable traits as polyethylene, polypropylene, and acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS). The variations? It’s constructed from organic supplies, it’s biodegradable, and it’s carbon unfavourable (in a cradle-to-gate Life Cycle Evaluation).
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