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Novamont S.p.A. manufactures bioplastics in Italy and internationally. The company offers MATER-BI, a material, which is obtained from renewable raw materials of agricultural origin. Its products are used in films, thermoformed articles, foams, additives, injection moulded articles, and extruded articles applications, Refuse sacks |
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Novamont is a company that was created by a group of researchers following the example of Giacomo Fauser. The company’s ambitious project, “Living Chemistry for Quality of Life”, combines chemistry, agriculture and the environment.
From the school of material science…
The Novamont story has its roots in the Montedison school of material science, which was created after the discovery of polypropylene by the Nobel prize-winner Giulio Natta. More generally it was influenced by the school of chemistry created at the beginning of the twentieth century in Novara by Giacomo Fauser, whose research into the chemistry of nitrogen led to the creation of Montecatini, which later became Montedison.
…Chemistry serving man…
Fauser had a clear concept of scientific research. It had to follow a moral imperative for the benefit of mankind, and therefore had to be able to bring together industry and the environment. The Novamont project, which stemmed from this concept, entails finding new ways of using renewable raw materials made from plant matter. These bioplastics, which are used for specific applications, have a low environmental impact and all the properties of traditional materials, but can also be completely biodegradable.
…And the environment…
Today Novamont provides the best solution to the demands of consumers, companies and institutions for innovative products for truly sustainable growth. In developing the new generation of products made from renewable raw materials of agricultural origin, Novamont strategically chose to adopt the latest testing procedures such as Life Cycle Analysis (LCA), and certifications such as the Environmental Product Declaration (EPD). The objective of the “Living Chemistry for Quality of Life” project is to secure genuine environmental benefits.
| INITIATIVES Since its very beginning, Novamont has worked to build partnerships and to collaborate with government bodies, institutions and firms, to develop the project "Living Chemistry for Quality of Life". The partnerships operate in a wide variety of areas, from the search for innovative solutions in different industrial sectors (from the car industry to packaging), to defining standards for analysing product performance, such as the Environmental Product Declaration (EPD), which was created together with the Italian environmental protection agency ANPA, following indications of the European Environmental Agency. The objective that has driven the work of Novamont, is to create an interdisciplinary team involving universities, research organisations, businesses, and control bodies, to produce real instruments that support sustainable development. With this in mind, for more than ten years, Novamont has been developing and spreading know-how about integrated systems for the collection and disposal of solid urban waste, about minimising waste, and about the most advanced solutions for using renewable raw materials (RRM) of agricultural origin. Because of its work and commitment, Novamont has been called to take part in various international bodies and commissions, including the European Climate Change Programme workgroup. | 
| NOVAMONT'S MISSION, AN AMBITIOUS PROJECT
Novamont was created as a Montedison research centre and given the ambitious objective of “Living Chemistry for Quality of Life”. Since the outset Novamont has made significant contributions to creating a new industrial policy capable of combining the requirements of development and sustainability and has created a system integrating chemistry, agriculture, industry and the environment for “sustainable development” with low environmental impact. Its mission is to find solutions to the pressing problems of environmental pollution by developing products from renewable raw materials of agricultural origin, which minimise production of post-consumption waste, and processes entailing low environmental impact. | 
| WASTE MANAGEMENT Waste, its management and disposal, constitutes one of the greatest environmental priorities and involves all areas and the whole country: from the countryside to the towns. Thanks to Novamont research and to the local authorities that are sensitive to this problem, Italy is in the forefront in the study of solutions that optimise the cost and performance of integrated waste collection systems. The Italian model has become an important point of reference for the rest of the world.
Bags produced with Mater-Bi® help the environment while saving cost. | 
| WHAT IS MATER-BI® Naturally biodegradable and compostable
Mater-Bi® is an innovative family of bioplastics that uses substances obtained from plants, such as corn starch, and biodegradable polymers obtained both from renewable raw materials and fossil raw materials. Manufactured in the factory in Terni, Mater-Bi® comes in granular form and can be processed using the most common transformation techniques for plastics. It can be used to create products whose characteristics are similar to or even better than those of traditional plastics, but which are perfectly biodegradable and compostable. The different forms of Mater-Bi® are known as ‘grades’ and each one is identified by a different code. | |
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