Suzano Ventures Invests Up To $5M Into Bioform Technologies To Further Develop Bio-based Plastic Alternatives
Suzano Ventures Invests Up To $5M Into Bioform Technologies To Further Develop Bio-based Plastic Alternatives
Suzano Ventures, the corporate venture capital arm of Suzano, the world's largest market pulp producer, has made a strategic investment into the Canadian materials science startup, Bioform Technologies. The investment provides up to US$5 million towards the company's seed round, enabling it to accelerate the development of its novel bio-based plastic alternatives. The products can be manufactured through modified industrial processes already used in the pulp and paper sector.
Bioform's proprietary technology rapidly produces wood pulp-reinforced hydrogels to create high-performance plastic alternatives, which can be made using Suzano's wood pulp fibre as a key input. Bioform's materials have the potential to be home compostable or recycled through existing paper recycling processes and do not require fossil-based inputs. The technology is highly versatile and has a number of applications where it could replace conventional single-use plastics, including paper recyclable thermoformable films for packaging applications and compostable heat-sealable films for pouches, agriculture, and garbage bags.
With the potential to offer an 80 percent lower carbon footprint than conventional single-use plastics, Bioform's technology has similar or enhanced product performance to conventional plastics in areas such as tensile strength and permeability for oxygen or water vapor.
Suzano Ventures, the corporate venture capital arm of Suzano, the world's largest market pulp producer, has made a strategic investment into the Canadian materials science startup, Bioform Technologies. The investment provides up to US$5 million towards the company's seed round, enabling it to accelerate the development of its novel bio-based plastic alternatives. The products can be manufactured through modified industrial processes already used in the pulp and paper sector.
全球最大的市場紙漿生產商蘇扎諾的企業風險投資部門Suzano Ventures已對加拿大材料科學初創公司Bioform Technologies進行了戰略投資。該投資爲該公司的種子輪融資提供了高達500萬美元的資金,使其能夠加快其新型生物基塑料替代品的開發。這些產品可以通過製漿和造紙行業中已經使用的經過改良的工業工藝來製造。
Bioform's proprietary technology rapidly produces wood pulp-reinforced hydrogels to create high-performance plastic alternatives, which can be made using Suzano's wood pulp fibre as a key input. Bioform's materials have the potential to be home compostable or recycled through existing paper recycling processes and do not require fossil-based inputs. The technology is highly versatile and has a number of applications where it could replace conventional single-use plastics, including paper recyclable thermoformable films for packaging applications and compostable heat-sealable films for pouches, agriculture, and garbage bags.
Bioform 的專有技術可快速生產木漿增強水凝膠,以創造高性能塑料替代品,這些替代品可以使用 Suzano 的木漿纖維作爲關鍵原料製成。Bioform的材料有可能在家中堆肥或通過現有的紙張回收流程進行回收利用,並且不需要化石基投入。該技術用途廣泛,在許多應用中可以取代傳統的一次性塑料,包括用於包裝應用的紙質可回收熱成型薄膜以及用於袋子、農業和垃圾袋的可堆肥熱封薄膜。
With the potential to offer an 80 percent lower carbon footprint than conventional single-use plastics, Bioform's technology has similar or enhanced product performance to conventional plastics in areas such as tensile strength and permeability for oxygen or water vapor.
Bioform的技術有可能比傳統的一次性塑料減少80%的碳足跡,因此在氧氣或水蒸氣的拉伸強度和滲透率等方面,具有與傳統塑料相似或增強的產品性能。
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