About
Wood4Plastic is funded by the European Commission under the LIFE 2023 program, with Grant Agreement number 101148460. The project aims to develop a solution that contributes with the reduction of the impact of the fossil-based plastics providing new biobased ones and enhancing the recycling of waste across Europe.
The project will focus on the next step of the production and optimization of the biomaterial formulations, ensuring their effective processing to develop innovative bio-based industrial products with high replication potential. The formulations will be adapted to enable processing using standard equipment and techniques currently employed for conventional fossil-based plastics, such as extrusion coating, thermo-lamination, blown film extrusion, and injection moulding.
Wood4Plastic will develop 3 different KERs to showcase its potential. These KERs are Biobased trays for food applications made of Biomaterials including bio polyesters based on 1,4-bioBDO from hardwood sugars and without lignin for film, Bags for the collection of OFMSW, made of biomaterials with lignin and bio polyesters including 1,4-bioBDO from hardwood sugars, and Dehumidifiers crafted from biomaterials incorporating lignin and PLA masterbatches
