Danimer Scientific, Inc. is unveiling new commercial applications and branding during NPE 2024, North America?s large plastics tradeshow, taking place this week in Orlando, FL. A more perfect polymer? takes center stage at NPE 2024.

Danimer?s signature PHA, Nodax®, represents a more perfect polymer revolution. PHAs (polyhydroxyalkanoates) are naturally made polymer chains, and at Danimer it harness microbes as tiny reactors to make its biopolymers, using canola oil as the renewable feedstock. The resulting PHA can be used to replace conventional plastics in uses from straws to lids, from coffee pods to flexible packaging, and from paper coatings to adhesives.

With full PHA production capability in place, Danimer is poised for significant growth with commercial partners for several applications, including cutlery, flexible food packaging and paper packaging barrier coatings. Microbes, not Microplastics? enables a new future for packaging items. Danimer is committed to offering solutions to address plastic pollution and the proliferation of microplastics.

It is all about the microbes, both during origination and biodegradation. Microbes produce PHAs, and microbes biochemically recycle its PHAs, whether in industrial compost, home compost, soils, fresh water or the marine environment. Because a large class of microbes present in natural systems readily identify PHAs as a food source, there is no threat of residual microplastics.

PHA grades are third party certified to fully biodegrade under various conditions, with the added benefit of no ecotoxicity concerns, PFAS or regulated metals. That makes Nodax a more perfect polymer? for its planet.