Bioplastics: New Biopolymer Database

During the last 10-15 years a lot of projects started in the field of Biopolymers. After some difficulties in the past, today the interest into these materials is very high and the producers report about a booming demand. Unfortunately, only very little qualified information about these materials is available to the decision makers in the industry. Even though there has been remarkable research efforts in the past, the results are not accessible in a structured and well organised form. Also the quality of the available information is doubtful, many files are out of date or incomplete. Interested users need to spend too much time searching for qualified material data and very often will not find answers to their questions.

In order to improve the situation, a new project will create a biopolymer database which contains a full overview of the market. The guideline is the well known CAMPUS® database, which has become the international standard information system for conventional Engineering Polymers.

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A new Biopolymer Database will allow quick and easy access to information about Biopolymer producers, contact persons and material properties, like mechanical properties, permeability, degradation or processing behaviour.

The main goal of the project will be to collect complete information about available Biopolymers, using uniform standards and to generate comparable and complete material data.

The result will be a database, which is compatible with the international accepted CAMPUS® system and will be accessible through the internet.

The project started at the end of last year and is supported by the German Government BMELV (Fachagentur Nachwachsende Rohstoffe e.V.). Project participants are M-Base Engineering + Software GmbH (www.m-base.de) and European Bioplastics (www.european-bioplastics.org).

It is important to point out, that during this project, in contrast to old and recent published studies, only all the latest materials, which are really available at the market will be considered and in close cooperation with the Biopolymer producers crucial processing, utilisation and disposal material data will be generated in a complete new test program organised and conducted by the project team.

For questions, suggestions or interest in cooperation please contact:

Fachhochschule Hannover
Fachbereich Bioverfahrenstechnik
Heisterbergallee 12
30453 Hannover

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Hans-Josef Endres
Tel. 0049 (0)511-9296 2212
Fax 0049 (0)511-9296 2210
hans-josef.endres@fh-hannover.de

Dipl.-Ing. Andrea Siebert
Tel. 0049 (0)511-9296 2230
Fax 0049 (0)511-9296 2210
andrea.siebert@fh-hannover.de

Fachhochschule Hannover, Fachbereich Bioverfahrenstechnik, Hannover

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