Naturally advanced materials from NatureWorks.

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About NatureWorks
What began in 1989 as a Cargill research project looking for innovative uses of carbohydrates from plants as feedstock for more sustainable plastics, quickly matured into the innovative materials for which we are known today.

NatureWorks is now a world-leading biopolymers supplier and innovator with its Ingeo portfolio of naturally advanced materials made from renewable, abundant feedstocks with performance and economics that compete with oil-based intermediates, plastics, and fibers. These materials also provide brand owners new cradle-to-cradle options after the use of their products.

NatureWorks is jointly owned by Thailand’s largest chemical producer, PTT Global Chemical, and Cargill, which provides food, agriculture, financial and industrial products and services to the world.

Our manufacturing facility, located in Blair, Nebraska, USA, has a name plate capacity of 330 million pounds (150,000 metric tons) of Ingeo biopolymer. Our plant came online in 2002. In 2003, we built the world’s largest lactic acid manufacturing facility to feed our polymer plant. Then in 2009 we opened a state-of-the-art applications development facility. Most recently in 2016, we opened a new fermentation laboratory to develop commercial-scale methane to lactic acid fermentation technology.

Today, with representatives in over 10 countries, NatureWorks does business in North America, Europe, Japan and Asia Pacific. We continue to work with converters, brandowners and retailers around the world to help introduce naturally advanced products that span multiple industries and categories, including rigid and flexible packaging solutions; food serviceware; health and personal care; durable products in home, appliance, and electronic categories;

Back in 1989, we had a big, crazy idea. What if we could
turn greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide in products?
Nature does it all the time turning carbon dioxide into plants,
entire forests, and huge structures like coral reefs.
At NatureWorks, we’re doing the same thing – using our
best technologies to turn greenhouse gases into a portfolio
of performance materials called Ingeo.

How is Ingeo made?
Today, we use plants to capture and sequester CO2
transforming it into long-chain sugar molecules.We
ferment those sugars to make lactic acid, the same
chemical produced by our muscles after some hard
exercise. This lactic acid is the building block of the
whole range of advanced materials we call Ingeo.
It took some real innovations to bring these new materials to
market, but today we partner with companies around the
world to transform Ingeo into a wide-range of innovative
products like coffee capsules, tea bags, coatings for paper,
diapers, and appliances.

Our commitment to
Sustainable Agriculture
Certified sustainability
for 100% of our feedstock
For the last three decades, NatureWorks has been
working to critically asssess, diversify, and assure
the sustainability of our feedstocks.
A new initiative at NatureWorks will ensure that
by 2020 100% of the agricultural feedstock used
for the production of Ingeo will be certified by the
International Sustainability & Carbon Certification
System (ISCC) to the ISCC PLUS standard of best
practices in agricultural production.

Markets & Applications
From coffee capsules to food serviceware and appliances to 3D printing,
NatureWorks has been leading applications innovation for biomaterials for
over 20 years. These applications demonstrate how Ingeo can be tailored
to enhance performance attributes critical to application performance
from barrier, to heat and impact resistance, to thermoformability, all while
embracing the concepts of a circular bioeconomy.
For example, the barrier properties of Ingeo make it an ideal material for
refrigerator liners where it can help retain insulative properties reducing
energy use 7-13% over the life of the appliance. In markets such as
single-serve beverage capsules and foodservice, Ingeo-based products
can be 3rd-party certified compostable, and enable food waste diversion
away from landfills.

• SINGLE-SERVE BEVERAGE CAPSULES
• 3D PRINTING
• FOOD SERVICEWARE
• MEDICAL AND HYGIENE
• LANDSCAPE AND AGRICULTURE
• BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION
• ELECTRONICS AND APPLIANCES
• FOOD PACKAGING
• BEAUTY AND HOUSEHOLD
• NONWOVENS FOR FILTRATION AND INFUSION
• INDUSTRIAL CHEMICALS

see & read more on
https://www.natureworksllc.com/~/media/Files/NatureWorks/About-Us/NatureWorks%20Overview%20Pamphlet_pdf.pdf



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