Our value proposition includes:
Compostable bio-composite resins: High Oxygen and Water Vapor barrier packaging solutions that are compostable to ASTM 6400 and ASTM 6868 standards, certified by BPI. These are for injection molding, thermoforming and extrusion processes.
We also provide bio-composite resins with no barrier for specific end-product packaging formats.
Technology Overview
Working with our partner, University of Guelph, commercialization of compostable bio-composite resin technology is a first of its kind in the world where a significant amount of reinforcement is provided by fillers. These are typically so-called ‘waste streams’ of Agriculture and the Agriculture processing industry.
Excellent barrier is achieved with an innovative choice of compostable fillers. Most importantly, no co-injection molding is needed – a single step process is all that it takes to achieve the desired barrier properties for enhanced shelf life. The reinforcement fillers used are universally available all over the world. Over 15 different biomass and other fillers have been characterized and used by us and successfully compatibilized. That is the key to being able to globally scale our offerings of bio-composite resins.
Example
Products moulded from our bio-composite resins include support rings for single serve coffee pods using the ‘mesh’ format, other single use packaging materials, greenhouse accessories, etc. - all that are were earlier thrown into landfill and are now compostable.
All McCafe single serve coffee pods in Canada, sold across all McDonalds stores, and other mass merchandisers like Walmart.ca, Longos, etc. use our innovative compostable bio-composite resin.
Molded products using our resin are on store shelves all over North America. See Discovery Channel episode "Made By Destruction" here.
Compostable bio-composite resins: High Oxygen and Water Vapor barrier packaging solutions that are compostable to ASTM 6400 and ASTM 6868 standards, certified by BPI. These are for injection molding, thermoforming and extrusion processes.
We also provide bio-composite resins with no barrier for specific end-product packaging formats.
Technology Overview
Working with our partner, University of Guelph, commercialization of compostable bio-composite resin technology is a first of its kind in the world where a significant amount of reinforcement is provided by fillers. These are typically so-called ‘waste streams’ of Agriculture and the Agriculture processing industry.
Excellent barrier is achieved with an innovative choice of compostable fillers. Most importantly, no co-injection molding is needed – a single step process is all that it takes to achieve the desired barrier properties for enhanced shelf life. The reinforcement fillers used are universally available all over the world. Over 15 different biomass and other fillers have been characterized and used by us and successfully compatibilized. That is the key to being able to globally scale our offerings of bio-composite resins.
Example
Products moulded from our bio-composite resins include support rings for single serve coffee pods using the ‘mesh’ format, other single use packaging materials, greenhouse accessories, etc. - all that are were earlier thrown into landfill and are now compostable.
All McCafe single serve coffee pods in Canada, sold across all McDonalds stores, and other mass merchandisers like Walmart.ca, Longos, etc. use our innovative compostable bio-composite resin.
Molded products using our resin are on store shelves all over North America. See Discovery Channel episode "Made By Destruction" here.
Cost and weight reduction are needs of the automotive industry. We have achieved a major breakthrough in being able to use bio-carbon from natural materials to replace hitherto used inorganic fillers like chopped glass fibre and talc, with bio-carbon and create bio-composite resins that are drop-in replacements of talc and glass-filled Polypropylene (PP) and Nylon composites.
We have saved for e.g., 23% in weight in some applications where for e.g. 40% talc-filled PP was being used and no cost penalty.
Light-weighting is the sustainable response to the needs of increasingly fuel efficient vehicles. Our value proposition is to take away around 20% of the weight contributed by plastic parts in a car (typically 20% of 200 KGs in a typical automobile = 40 Kgs lighter).
Technology Overview
The patented technology deployed is to compatibilize bio-carbon made from natural biomass with fossil polymers like PP and Nylon and create bio-composite resins that have equal or higher mechanical properties along with the required durability and performance linked properties like heat aging, adhesion strength, etc. to meet the demanding needs of the auto industry.
Our innovative biocarbon producing capability, surface treatment methodologies and exfoliation techniques, coupled with our extrusion technologies, facilitate the compounding of bio-carbon based bio-composite resins for light-weighting injection molded auto parts.
We have saved for e.g., 23% in weight in some applications where for e.g. 40% talc-filled PP was being used and no cost penalty.
Light-weighting is the sustainable response to the needs of increasingly fuel efficient vehicles. Our value proposition is to take away around 20% of the weight contributed by plastic parts in a car (typically 20% of 200 KGs in a typical automobile = 40 Kgs lighter).
Technology Overview
The patented technology deployed is to compatibilize bio-carbon made from natural biomass with fossil polymers like PP and Nylon and create bio-composite resins that have equal or higher mechanical properties along with the required durability and performance linked properties like heat aging, adhesion strength, etc. to meet the demanding needs of the auto industry.
Our innovative biocarbon producing capability, surface treatment methodologies and exfoliation techniques, coupled with our extrusion technologies, facilitate the compounding of bio-carbon based bio-composite resins for light-weighting injection molded auto parts.
Downloads
- Technical Datasheet: PP repro / natural fibre bio-composite for storage bins
- Technical Datasheet: Bio-composite resin for single serve coffee capsules Rev 7.1
- Technical Datasheet: Bio-composite resin for single serve coffee capsules Rev 7.1-6
- Technical Datasheet: Bio-composite resin for single serve coffee capsules Rev 8.1-5
- Technical Datasheet: Bio-composite resin for thermoforming and film applications
- Technical Datasheet: Bio-composite resin substitute for 20%, 30% & 40% talc-filled PP
- Technical Datasheet: BIOBLAKR® PE
- Technical Datasheet: BIOBLAKR® PP
- Technical Datasheet: BIOBLAKR® PS
- Technical Datasheet: BIOBLAKR® PBAT
- MSDS: PP repro / natural fibre bio-composite for storage bins
- MSDS: Bio-composite resin for single serve coffee capsules Rev 7.1
- MSDS: Bio-composite resin for single serve coffee capsules Rev 7.1-6
- MSDS: Bio-composite resin for single serve coffee capsules Rev 8.1-5
- MSDS: Bio-composite resin for thermoforming and film applications
- MSDS: Bio-composite resin substitute for 20%, 30% & 40% talc-filled PP
- MSDS: BIOBLAKR® PE
- MSDS: BIOBLAKR® PP
- MSDS: BIOBLAKR® PS
Our bio-composite resin used to mould eco-flower pots was awarded the Rona-Eco certification by Quantis, an independent life cycle analysis (LCA) evaluation firm in Canada. This makes Competitive Green Technologies the first company in North America to receive this certification. The certification is an endorsement of the bio-composite resin from Competitive Green Technologies being cutting edge. This is the first commercially viable bio-composite resin for consumer products, that uses non-food, non-forest grasses as biomass.
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CGTECH-BCR-XX REV 7.1 (left) and 8.1 (right): Compostable bio-composite resins intended for injection molded single serve coffee capsules with Oxygen barrier
Our Research and Commercialization/Quality Assurance Laboratory
Pendulum Impact Tester
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Notch Maker
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Universal Testing Machine
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