The clothes you wear emit millions of microplastics every day, by using and washing them. Microplastics that persist in the environment. A solution to this problem is offered by FortePlastics, which combines excellent yarn strength with complete mineralization of their microplastics.
Marine fauna and flora are suffocationg form ghost nets or dying through infiltration of microplastics into their bodies. With FortePlastics, fishing gear not only becomes recyclable, but also degradable.
Smooth transition of power by high- precision gear wheels: no better material can thought of than tuned polyamides. The only problem: wearing out causes nanoplastics that infiltrate into our bodies. Time for the FortePlastics gear wheels!
Strength and degradability come together in a clip that optimizes food growth and harvest: strong enough to hold mature food crops, and degradable enough to dispose with the residual biomass to industrial composting. The best of two worlds together in a FortePlastics clip: with the right material, the bio-economy can be simple.
The result is a bioplastic with a tensile strength of over +100 MPa, making it one of the strongest bioplastics available, which we named FORTAMID®. FORTAMID® contains up to 20% biobased carbon content (ASTM D6866). Additionally, its degradation time can be adjusted to the desired application and environment.
At B4Plastics, we believe that FORTAMID® represents a major step forward in the development of biobased, biodegradable plastics that can meet the needs of a range of applications. Rivalling the tensile strength of traditional petroleum-based plastics, we are proud to offer this material to our partners and customers. An excellent option for applications where long-term durability is necessary, but where biodegradability is also a key consideration.
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