Cereplast, Inc. (OTCBB: CERP – News), a manufacturer of bio-based plastics, announced that it will supply Compostables® resin to Georgia-Pacific Professional Food Services Solutions for the manufacture of its recently introduced line of Dixie EcoSmart products.
These products include Cereplast Compostables resin-lined paper hot cups made from at least 95% renewable resources and the Insulair® line of insulated cups, available in 12 and 25% post-consumer recycled fiber.
All Dixie EcoSmart products can be processed in commercial composting operations.
Cereplast Compostable resin contains Ingeo® PLA supplied by NatureWorks, a joint venture between Cargill and Japan’s Teijin.
“The Georgia-Pacific award is the largest contract in the history of Cereplast and represents our most important commercial achievement to date,” said Frederic Scheer, Chairman and CEO of Cereplast.
Georgia-Pacific’s Food Services Solutions group focuses on such segments as restaurants, coffee shops and convenience stores.
Cereplast, Inc. designs and manufactures proprietary bio-based, sustainable plastics which are used as substitutes for petroleum-based plastics in all major converting processes–such as injection molding, thermoforming, blow molding and extrusions.
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