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Our Story
We live in a plastic world. Think about how many plastic objects you use in a day. Virtually everything is made from plastic; from your toothbrush to your shopping bags. Nearly everything that is sold today, is packaged in plastic. Plastic is everywhere, and 99% of all this plastic is made using oil or gas.
Not only is plastic everywhere, it is here to stay. Every single piece of plastic that you have ever used is likely to still be somewhere on this planet! Most plastics easily take hundreds of years to degrade. They often end up in a landfill (abroad) or are incinerated; both heavily taxing on our planet.
Yet, alternatives to conventional petrochemical-based plastics hardly see application. Bio-plastics comprise less than a percent of the annual nearly 300-million-ton global plastic production.
Why? Bio-plastic used to be far more expensive than conventional plastic. Until now.
Plantics aims to tackle the global environmental problems of plastic pollution with innovative and cost-saving solutions that have a high impact through commercial success.
Four types of plastics explained:
Type 1
Biodegradable
Renewable resources
Type 2
Biodegradable
Renewable resources
Type 3
Bio-degradable
Partly renewable resources
Plantics
Biodegradable
100% Renewable resources
Type 1
Biodegradable
Renewable resources
Bio-based
Compostable
Type 2
Biodegradable
Renewable resources
Bio-based
Compostable
Type 3
Bio-degradable
Renewable resources
Bio-based
Compostable
Plantics
Biodegradable
Renewable resources
Bio-based
Compostable
Let’s talk business
Clients
Actors in the packaging, agriculture, waste management, transport. These industries have single use applications using petrochemical-based plastic that lead to (costly) waste management problems, increased staff costs, plastic toxicity problems, regulatory change, plastic product lack of heat/chemical resistance, and/or lack of “green” marketability of their current products.
Plantics provides
100% biodegradability and compostability, full non-toxicity (even when ingested or incinerated), flame retardancy, high chemical and heat resistance, a bio-plastic who’s feedstock does not compete with food production, at such low-cost that it can compete economically with conventional oil-based plastics.
The competition
Non-degradable petroleum-based plastics and any other bio-plastics, currently available, are generally much more expensive than their petroleum-based plastic counterparts. This is due to the often high feedstock costs and/or costly (high-tech) production processes.
Our partners
Products
Plantics’ mission is to develop and market its proprietary bio-polymer. Plantics offers a unique product; the first thermoset plastic that’s fully biodegradable, compostable and 100% bio-based. Importantly, due to its low-cost it can compete economically with conventional petroleum-based plastics. Thereby, delivering an environmentally sustainable alternative without the need for our customers to pay a “Green-premium”as often required from other bioplastics.
Plantics aims to become a bio-polymer supplier. Plantics supplies its bio-polymer in various forms like foam or granules. Granules are typically used by plastic converters who turn raw material into final products (i.e. via transfer molding, injection molding). Plantics’ launching product are horticulture packaging. Plantics horticulture packaging is both bio-based and biodegradable, and is a replacement of the currently used petroleum-based packaging used in horticulture.
Industry
Plastics
The global plastic production is about 300 million ton per annum. Plantics is active in the global thermoset market. This industry’s compounded annual growth rate is 11.3% (2011-2016) with an estimated current valuation of €80Bn. Since the plastic industry is highly price driven, less than <0.4% of the 300 million ton per annum global plastic production is bioplastics. Nevertheless, bio-plastics are currently one of the fastest growing material business worldwide.
Packaging
Generally speaking, the packaging industry, our most relevant market, is estimated to grow at a rate of 4% in real terms till 2018. However, bio-based plastic packaging is expected to grow at a CAGR of 33%1.
Bioplastics’ share of the packaging sector is expected to grow from 0.2% in 2013 to 2.4% by 2023. Driven by both bio renewability and biodegradability trends, the demand for bioplastics in packaging is expected to grow to about 9.45 million tpa by 2023.
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Founding team
Mr. Helias Andreissen
Managing director
Andriessen has a dual master’s degree in chemistry from the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and business at Leiden University. He worked for over two years as researcher developing biopolymer for the UvA, after which he co-founded Plantics BV.
Dr. Albert Alberts
Co-inventor & Research director
Alberts co-invented the bioplastic technology, is co-founder, director and shareholder of Plantics BV. Dr. Alberts has decades of international research experience in (polymer) chemistry, and is a senior researcher within Plantics.
Prof. dr. Gadi Rothenberg
Co-inventor
Rothenberg is a world-leading researcher in catalysis and sustainable materials. He has published over 150 papers, co-invented the bioplastic technology (and 13 other patents) and co-founded three spin-off companies: Sorbisense A/S, Yellowdiesel BV and Plantics BV.
