TotalEnergies partners Intraplás to develop bio-based polymer for food packaging

FRANCE – French petroleum company TotalEnergies has partnered with Portugal-based Intraplás to develop bio-based polymer for food packaging.

According to TotalEnergies, the new sustainable packaging intends to reduce customers’ carbon footprint and maintain performance and food safety.

The products will be made using TotalEnergies RE:newable polymer, part of RE:clic portfolio, which is renewably sourced to reduce the final product’s carbon footprint.

TotalEnergies Europe & Orient Polymers vice president Olivier Greiner said: “Our RE:newable range is essential in achieving TotalEnergies’ ambition to produce 30% circular polymers by 2030.

“Our leading position as an integrated player on the market enables TotalEnergies to provide its customers with low-carbon, drop-in polymers from renewable sources in industrial quantities.

“This collaboration with our long-term partner Intraplás is another important milestone. Innovation is increasingly critical for companies to distinguish themselves in an increasingly competitive market.”

According to the petroleum firm, the drop-in RE:newable polymer will be sourced directly from the company’s biorefinery in La Mède, France.

The resultant polymer is guaranteed by the mass balance-based International Sustainability and Carbon Certification (ISCC PLUS) program.

The RE:newable series, which lowers carbon emissions, demonstrates virgin-like qualities appropriate for high-end, demanding applications, the French firm claimed.

TotalEnergies said that the technological and business expertise of Intraplás will help to introduce this invention to the packaging market.

The converter’s facilities are also ISCC PLUS certified, which will allow for full traceability from RE:newable’s production to its final application.

According to TotalEnergies, the polymer is intended for food packaging and provides high-performing, low-carbon, fossil-free sustainable packaging solutions to customers.

Intraplás chief procurement officer Marisa Alves added: “If innovating is essential to create value, the sustainability of an innovative product is the best basis for responding to socio-environmental challenges. It is our commitment to offer more eco-friendly packaging solutions to the market.

“We are increasingly investing in the incorporation of materials from renewable sources without compromising food safety, consumer well-being and product performance.”

Working alongside professionals in the value chain, including plastic manufacturers, research centers, waste collection, and sorting companies, and their customers, TotalEnergies is spearheading the drive toward the circular economy.

The Company is developing different plastic recycling processes and using renewable raw materials, with the ambition to commercialize 30% circular polymers by 2030.

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