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July 12, 2007

TERRAMAC Achieved World's Fastest Level of Molding Speed as Biomass-based Plastic

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UNITIKA Ltd. has established a new technology that considerably improves molding speed of polylactic acid (PLA): one of the commercially available biomass-based plastics. TERRAMAC resin, Unitika's biomass-based plastic resin, will be applied to wide range of area by this innovative technology that brings higher productivity and lower production cost.
This new technology makes the production speed up to 1.7 times higher than the process in which our conventional high-production-speed grade resin is applied so that the efficiency of production process for injection molded products is improved. Furthermore, production cost is expected to be lower because this new technology permits the lower processing temperature during injection molding and saves cost for energy. This new technology will contribute to less environmental effect by the efficiency of the production process and the lower processing temperature in injection molding process.
Now, TERRAMAC has been armed with world's fastest level of molding speed and shortest level of molding cycle as PLA resin. The potential applications of the PLA molded products has significantly expanded with these new properties and the other properties achieved by our earlier technology for TERRAMAC, such as heat resistance, durability, and impact resistance.

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