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Editorial<br />
dear<br />
readers<br />
As you read these lines, the 13 th European Bioplastics Conference in Berlin is over<br />
or – for some of you – still going on. And as always, we are grateful to European<br />
Bioplastics for giving us the opportunity to present the Annual Global Bioplastics<br />
Award at this prestigious event. For those of you who missed it, turn to page 10,<br />
where we present this year’s winner. We had already reported about the project<br />
earlier this year, and it so happened that the development was anonymously<br />
proposed for the award – and won.<br />
Films, Flexibles, Bags is traditionally the first highlight topic of every December<br />
issue of bioplastics MAGAZINE. And the other this year is Bioplastics made from<br />
waste streams.<br />
It is also interesting to see that in the aftermath of our 1 st PHA platform World<br />
Congress , the response continues. A group of four experts have now come<br />
together to found GO!PHA - the Global Organization for PHA - a global initiative to<br />
accelerate the development of the PHA-platform industry.<br />
As always, we’ve rounded up some of the most recent news items on materials<br />
and applications to keep you abreast of the latest innovations and ongoing<br />
advances in the world of bioplastics.<br />
Lastly, I’d like to remind you of the 3 rd bio!PAC conference on biobased<br />
packaging in Düsseldorf next May – the call for papers is still open. If you have<br />
an interesting topic to report on, please let us know. The same goes for the<br />
first international bio!TOY conference. At the end of March, we are going to bring<br />
together raw material suppliers and toy manufacturers in Nürnberg, Germany, the Toy<br />
City. See pages 11 and 13 for details.<br />
Let me take this opportunity to wish you all a relaxing time over the holidays as this<br />
year comes to an end. Together with you, our readers, we look forward with confidence<br />
to a new year of challenges, innovations - and events. On our calendar, we’ve already<br />
marked down Chinaplas, taking place next year at a new location in Guangzhou and<br />
of course the K’show in Düsseldorf in October and a host of other events. We’ll be<br />
covering as many of these events as possible - and we hope to see you there, too.<br />
Until then, please enjoy reading bioplastics MAGAZINE.<br />
bioplastics MAGAZINE Vol. 13<br />
ISSN 1862-5258<br />
Compostable<br />
sanitary napkin<br />
project wins<br />
13th Global<br />
Bioplastics Award<br />
| 10<br />
Highlights<br />
Bioplastics from waste streams | 20<br />
Films, flexibles, bags | 12<br />
Nov / Dec<br />
<strong>06</strong> | <strong>2018</strong><br />
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