| Grant number: | 01/03577-0 |
| Support Opportunities: | Research Grants - Innovative Research in Small Business - PIPE |
| Start date: | August 01, 2001 |
| End date: | July 31, 2004 |
| Field of knowledge: | Engineering - Production Engineering - Product Engineering |
| Principal Investigator: | Olivier François Vilpoux |
| Grantee: | Olivier François Vilpoux |
| Company: | Natu-Lyne Produtos de Materiais Biodegradáveis Ltda |
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Abstract
The project aims to identify industrial equipment and the adaptation of biodegradable starch films to enable their large scale production. The intention of Empresa de Materiais Biodegradáveis (EMB) is to produce biodegradable matter based on starch and other materials of vegetable origin. Starch film is already suited to niche markets such as edible wrappings (sweets, candies and toffees) or for packaging of products to be dissolved in water (detergent, defensives and chemical products). However, the equipment for the manufacture of disposable plastic films on the market has not adapted to the starch film, mainly as it uses cooling for hardening, while the starch demands a drying process. As well as the differences in the processing stages, the raw material that gives origin to the starch film has a consistency different from the plastic one, making the process of blowing and film formation difficult. In the first phase of the project, in which work was done on the identification and evaluation of possible equipment that could be used for the formation of starch films, among other activities, problems were uncovered that need to be solved in the second stage. The intention is also, in this phase, to carry out impermeability tests on the products and on the materials obtained from EMB’s pilot equipment, in addition to working on the improvement of the mechanical properties of the film, and on the preparation of a detailed business plan. (AU)
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