PLA coating

A modern life entirely without plastics is hard to imagine. Due to inflationary use - often beyond all common sense - the image of this flexible and value-creating raw material has suffered greatly in recent years.

The pollution of the oceans, huge mountains of garbage that cannot be recycled and the finiteness of fossil raw materials are urging a solution to this dilemma: bioplastics, of purely biological / biogenic origin and, depending on the application, also compostable in your own garden.

With the current threat to society from germs and viruses, there is a legitimate need for hygienic food packaging, to name an important segment.

Almost all petroleum-based plastics can be substituted with bio-plastics either equally or with better properties.

PLA is an important player among this new group of materials. It is highly transparent and has excellent workability and a high quality appearance. A small downer, however, is that the bioplastic is very difficult to color with biogenic dyes.

This is especially true for prototypes, small or medium quantities. One solution can be that of PCC developed PLA coating process. It is based on biogenic resins and organic dyes so as not to interfere with use, acceptance or even composting. Almost every color setting is possible, transparent colored, satined colored (with silicates) or opaque to 'read and be amazed' as an ESD coating made of castor oil resin with organic conductive pigments.

Bioplastics are also functional, e.g. to make them usable for industrial goods carriers, boxes or the like PCC Unique worldwide in 2019. Prototypes are in the test phase here.