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Sectors
Agriculture
AIMPLAS provides solutions to the main problems facing companies in the agricultural industry.
Crop quality
Functionality issues
Environmental impact
Agricultural waste
Our solutions for the agricultural sector
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Ensuring optimum crop quality
- Development of materials with new features (biocidal, antimicrobial, anti-thermal, light diffusers, etc.) to protect crops.
- Plastics with controlled release of substances (natural pest repellents, fertilizers, anti-root, etc.).
- UV resistance, chemical resistance, permeability, wavelength control, etc.
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Solutions to the problems of breakage and degradation of plastic products
- Advice on the causes of failure, breakage, degradation, installation issues, etc.
- Control and characterization of plastics in agriculture: mechanical and thermal properties, ageing, analysis of UV additives.
- Enhanced properties by combining polymers, additivation and/or polymer modification by reactive extrusion.
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Development of more sustainable plastics
- Use of recycled plastic, recyclability studies, control and characterization of agricultural products using recycled plastic.
- Development of biodegradable and compostable agricultural products, including soil compostability.
- Biodegradability and compostability studies and advice on the certification of compostable products (DIN Certco).
- Environmental impact assessment (Carbon footprint, LCA).
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Management of agricultural and plastic waste
- Using agricultural waste to obtain biopolymers and additives.
- Using agricultural and forestry waste as fibres and fillers in plastic products.