Production off bioplastics.

How are bioplastics made?

Starch is extracted from residual waste from, for example, the potato industry. This starch is used to make bioplastic granulate. 
Granules are small granules of about 4 mm in size. in the example of Fibernyl, starch and vibers and some biological additives are used to make granulate. 
We process this granulate into sheets with a large extrusion machine. This is done by heating the granulate and pressing it through an extrusion nozzle via a worm screw. 
Then the sheets is straightened by rolling to get it nice and smooth and at the right thickness. The roller can have a pinseal structure in order to transfer this structure to the sheet while it is still hot. 
Finally, the sheets are cut to size and neatly stacked on pallets and sealed. A major advantage of bioplastics is that the production temperature is much lower than for the production of fossil plastics. 
This saves energy and CO2.