FKuR & Partners Promote Braskem’s Green PE for Sustainable Foodstuffs Packaging
The compounder and plastics distributor FKuR Kunststoff GmbH , Willich, Germany, the film manufacturer Oerlemans Plastics BV, Genderen, the Netherlands, and the specialist foodstuffs packaging distributor BK Pac AB, Kristianstad, Sweden, are closely working together on expanding the possibilities for using bio-based plastics for sustainable foodstuffs film packaging. In this transnational cooperation project, bioplastics specialist FKuR is the distributor for the Green PE from the world-leading, Brazilian biopolymer manufacturer Braskem which is used to produce the film. This 100% recyclable, sugar cane-based polyethylene helps to reduce the environmental impact caused by greenhouse gases because using renewable raw materials binds up to 2.15 tons of atmospheric CO 2 for each ton of Green PE. And since the plastic is not biodegradable, this CO 2 remains bound in the plastic over the entire product life cycle. In the next step, Oerlemans Plastics uses the Braskem bio-based PE su