Aimplas PLA project achieves breakthrough - Arhive
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Aimplas PLA project achieves breakthrough
As a result, the study found an improved PLA, with a resistance 200% higher than normal, with the potential to replace polypropylene as a material.
The main innovation saw the use of an extruder as a reactor to produce polylactic acid (PLA) from lactide.
The production of PLA used Ring-Opening Polymerization (ROP) through a reactive extrusion process.
Aimplas was part of the European Project Innorex together with other 11 European companies and technology centres under the co-ordination of the German Fraunhofer Institute for Chemical Technology.