Wide range of applications of biodegradable pulp in life

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Disposable tableware since 1984 in our country for the first time since, a polystyrene (eps) as the main raw material of foamed plastic tableware quickly spread in every corner of our country, into the daily life of passers-by, forming a huge consumer market. According to statistics, China’s annual consumption of fast food utensils about 10 billion, most of which are disposable foam plastic tableware, and the annual growth rate of 25%. Due to the non-degradable, difficult to recycle and other shortcomings of polystyrene, it brings great inconvenience to the disposal work.

The use of pulp in life

After several years of hard work, China’s pulp moulding disposable catering utensils production process, technology and equipment have had a relatively rapid development, in terms of variety, has developed a cold, hot catering required by various types of tableware (such as fast food boxes, various specifications and sizes of the wai, plates, trays, bowls); supermarkets used in a variety of food trays, vegetables, fruit trays and so on. In terms of performance, has been fully able to meet the Chinese dietary habits, can hold hot soup and oil water, no leakage requirements.

Since then, the pulp moulding industry with its environmental vitality in the land of China’s rapid growth and expansion, to the late nineties, began to scale, industrialisation. At present, pulp moulding is an environmentally friendly container from nature!

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Pulp moulding biodegradable tableware

Wheat straw, sugar cane, reeds, rice straw and other annual herbaceous plant fibre pulp through pulping, pulping (or sucking pulp, fishing pulp), molding, shaping (or shaping), cutting, selection, disinfection, packaging and so on. The raw materials used are all recycled and renewable, and the physical pulping method produces no black water or waste water.

Advantages of pulp moulding tableware:

● the raw material is waste pulp or renewable wheat, reed, straw, bamboo, sugar cane, palm and other straw fibres, from a wide range of sources, low prices, without the use of wood.

● No waste water is produced in the production process and no external discharge. Environmentally friendly container from nature

● The product is waterproof and oil-proof

● the use of the process can be frozen, frozen, microwave heating, can be 220 degrees baking

● The product can be fully degraded within 45-90 days in natural state, and can be composted at home. After degradation, the main component is organic matter, which will not produce any rubbish residue and pollution.

● As a packaging container, it has the characteristics of cushioning, anti-pressure, shockproof, etc., which can effectively protect the packaged products.

● packaging electronic products will not produce static electricity.

Corn starch disposable tableware

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Other applications of pulp

The main ingredients are carrier resin. Corn starch. Coupling agent infiltration agent phase solvent and other low molecular composition. The edible fast tableware with starch as raw material. It is based on starch plants as raw materials, adding dietary fibre and other edible additives by mixing and kneading, it adopts biological compounding, polysaccharide cross-linking, calcium ion chelating and other technologies refined, there are dense layer, inner waterproof layer, rubber net layer and outer waterproof layer composed of four parts. Corn starch tableware circulating in the domestic market is mostly partially degradable lunch boxes, which cannot reach the level of full degradation.

Third, cardboard tableware

Cardboard fast tableware is 300-350 grams of bleached sulphate wood pulp cardboard as raw materials, through a similar sheet metal processing press moulding process for die-cutting and gluing or die-cutting and pressing, shaping and other processes made.

In order to prevent its seepage of oil or water, to the surface of the film or the application of chemical additives. In the production and use of the process is non-toxic, no side effects on the human body. However, the quality of the cardboard is higher, and the cost is also higher.

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Benson

Benson is content writer for TopCup Factory, his insight into the coffee industry and sensitivity to trends keeps him passionate in this field.
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