Symphony
Signs up one of World’s Largest Food Producers for
its d2w®
Self-Destruct, Oxo-Bio Plastic
(Apr
14, 2008)
Source:
The Omnexus Plastics and Elastomers
LONDON
-- Symphony Environmental Technologies Plc, the
degradable plastics and waste-to-energy Group, has
signed up one of the world’s largest food producers,
Tiger Brands of South Africa, as a customer for its
oxo-biodegradable plastic additive.
Symphony’s
d2w™ additive makes plastic degrade completely in a
pre-set time-span, from as little six months onwards,
leaving no fragments, no methane, and no harmful
residues. There
is little or no extra cost.
Albany
Bakeries of South Africa, a subsidiary of Tiger
Brands will be using d2w for all its bread-wrappers.
It has a substantial share of the national bread
market and owns
12 major bakeries that produce Albany Superior;
Olde
Cape
; D’light and Everyday bread ranges.
Albany
is the group’s biggest user of packaging.
Tiger
Brands is one of the largest food producers in the
world to commit to reducing the potential for plastic
pollution by their packaging.
Meghan
Draddy, Tiger’s packaging development manager for
grains: cereals; milling and baking, said.: "We
are pleased to announce our ground-breaking
co-operation with Symphony Environmental to
protect the environment from the accumulation of
plastic waste.
"Tiger
Brands has become
South Africa
’s first national food company
to tackle the litter and plastic-waste pollution
unavoidably resulting from bakery operations.
"Up
to 3,000 tonnes of potential litter and waste per year
will now degrade and then biodegrade, within a short
timescale."
Commenting
on the product launch, Michael Laurier, Chief
Executive of Symphony said: "We are delighted to
be announcing this major environmental breakthrough
jointly with Tiger Brands.
"In
addition to bread bags, our oxo-biodegradable
technology can make degradable plastic bags, heavy
shrink-wrap packaging and plastic bottles
self-destruct completely within a period of between 6
months and two years (depending on environmental
conditions) instead of polluting the land and the sea
for decades."
SYMPHONY
ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGIES PLC is a world leader in
oxo-biodegradable plastic technology.
In the last 12 months it is estimated that more than 5
billion plastic products have been made with
Symphony’s d2w®
pro-degradant additives.
