BioplasticsCustom-made Compounds and appliCations

We offer customer and future oriented

services in material and application deve-

lopment and compounding.

our long years of experience and a wide

range of technical installations such as test

rigs, pilot and production plants guarantee

the practice oriented economic solution of

your tasks.

Keywords

• Polymersfromrenewableresources

• Biodegradableplastics

• Specialcompounds

• Productandprocessdevelopment

• Plasticsanalyticsandtesting

•Marketandtechnologyreports

Industrial sectors

• Plasticsprocessingindustry

• Automotiveindustryandsuppliers

• Packagingindustry

• Consumptionandconsumer

products industry

•Machineandplantmanufacturers

• Recyclingandwastemanagement

1 Visual check of a blown film

in the laboratory

Fraunhofer Institute for

Environmental, Safety, and

Energy Technology UMSICHT

osterfelder strasse 3

46047Oberhausen,GERMANY

Contact

RenewableResources

dipl.-ing. thomas Wodke

phone +49 208 8598-1263

Fax +49 208 8598-1424

thomas.wodke@umsicht.fraunhofer.de

anneliese Kesselring

phone +49 2154 9251-24

Fax +49 2154 9251-61

anneliese.kesselring@umsicht.fraunhofer.de

www.umsicht.fraunhofer.de

F R A U N H O F E R I N S T I T U T E F O R E N v I R O N M E N TA l , S A F E T y, A N d E N E R g y T E C H N O l O g y U M S I C H T

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1 Twin screw extruder with mete-

ring device in the technical shop

Technical equipment

• Polymerprocessinglaboratory

mixer for hot/cold materials

(LabtechLMX10-S-VSFJ)

Laboratoryrollmill

(LabtechLMR-SC-110/3E)

Laboratorypress(LabtechLP-S-20)

Laboratoryblownfilmextruder

(LabtechLCR300)

Laboratoryextruder(TSAEMP26-40)

• extrusion lines

KMBerstorffZE50AUTX,KMBerstorff

ZE50RUTXi,LeistritzZSE70,Leistritz

ZSE40GL,APVMP40TC,several

granulators and metering units

• injection molding lines

Arburg470S1300-675,Battenfeld

600/125 CdC, dryer and heating units

• testing devices

Density,bulkdensity,meltflowindex,

residual moisture content, internal

moisture content, annealing residue,

tensile strength, impact strength, notched

impactstrength,flexuralproperties,

shorehardness,particlesizedistribution,

DSC,FT-IR,pyrolysisGC-MS,Vicat

softeningpoint,ballindentationhardness,

instrumental penetration test, viscosity

measurement, thermal conductivity, vol-

ume resistance, surface resistance, dielectric

resistance, production of test items, tests

forcompostabilityaccordingtoDINV

54900-1 to -3, din en 13432 and astm

D6400,extensivechemicalandbiological

analytics

Your benefit

• Competitiveleadbyinnovativematerials

•Marketadvantagesinproductintroduction

through short development times

• Flexibleproductionandprototyping

without interruption of production

• Fastrealizationofyourprojectsfromthe

ideatothemarketableproduct

• Scientificbackingofyourresearchand

development projects

• Fastmaterialtestingandevaluationof

test results, preparation of independent

expert reports

Our service

• Systematicdevelopmentofbiodegra-

dableplasticsandpolymersfromrenew-

ableresources

• Custom-tailoreddesignofresource

savingmaterialssuchaswoodfibre

compounds, nano-composites and

recycled plastics

• Pilotandsmallscaleproductionof

compounds and products

• Developmentandoptimizationof

products and processes

• Analyticsandtestingtechnologyfor

polymer materials

• Analysisofbiodegradabilityofmaterials,

substancesandby-products

• Recyclingconcepts,marketandfeasibility

studies, technology assessments

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Influence of the plasticizer on those thermal characteristics of the cellulose acetate that

are relevant for foaming