- NEWS
- Bakery
- Limagrain Céréales Ingrédients (LCI) achieves fourth British Retail Consortium 'Grade A' Award to complete BRC Certification of all its processing plants
- Clean Label improver for Danish pastries launched by Limagrain Céréales Ingrédients
- Increasing dough hydration with Hydra 0.2%, a clean label solution from LCI
- Adding clean label fibres to bakery products is a natural and cost effective way to get the health benefits of increased dietary fibre
- LCI launches absoluteWHEAT, a nutritional concentrate of white wheat
- LCI offer 'clean label' alternatives to achieving three important cake making objectives
- Natural recipes for the bread making industry need not cost more
- Snacks
- LCI Gains 3rd BRC Certificate - This time for its extrusion factory
- LCI maize fibres - natural, nutritional and functional
- New opportunities with Puffed Cakes
- New snacks opportunity with Dominos and Super Cornitos
- Limagrain Céréales Ingrédients gains BRC (British Retail Consortium) certificate 'Grade A' for both its corn processing factories
- Limagrain Céréales Ingrédients (LCI) launches maize super chips - a two-sided crisp with a light, innovative texture that is ideal for the natural and premium market
- One stop snack shop brings extra added-value and reduced costs in challenging times
- Breakfast Cereals
- Convenience Foods
- Westhove chickpea, a stabilised 100% chickpea flour, is launched by Limagrain Céréales Ingrédients.
- Three decades of clean label solutions give Westhove a huge depth of experience in authentic and functional ingredients
- LCI launches westhove LV Rice, a gluton-free flour with a low viscosity
- Cutting the cost of your meat products recipes with functional flours
- Bioplastics
- The first biodegradable and compostable packaging for the cement industry is launched
- LCI announce Biolice 50T, a new grade of bioplastic for thermoforming applications
- Second generation of biodegradable and compostable bioplastic, biolice, launched at the 4th European Bioplastics Conference
- Innovative bioplastic product brings 100% biodegradable and compostable food waste bags to local authority
SECOND GENERATION OF BIODEGRADABLE AND COMPOSTABLE BIOPLASTIC, BIOLICE, LAUNCHED AT THE 4th EUROPEAN BIOPLASTICS CONFERENCE
Limagrain Céréales Ingrédients (LCI) launched the second generation of biolice, their innovative bioplastic, at the 4th European Bioplastics Conference in Berlin.
Nathalie Gorce, Marketing Manager for biolice at LCI, said: "Biolice was introduced to the market in 2005 as a 100% biodegradable and 100% compostable bioplastic for a wide range of applications including shopping bags, refuse bags, green waste bags, netting and packing films."
"We have now introduced a second generation that gives a more transparent film, is softer, less permeable to oxygen, stiffer, and more tear-resistant. Printability and weldability is also considerably improved in response to feedback from our customers in the plastics processing industry.
"Biolice 50C new generation has the same biodegradable characteristics and chemical composition as the previous Biolice 50C - what differentiates it is a more advanced level of transformation of the cereal grains - thanks to the development of an even more advanced production method, combined with our unique expertise in cereals.
"Biolice is made using a process unique on the bioplastics market, using whole cereal grains from a number of specific Limagrain maize varieties. The product's innovation lies in the combination of cereal fractions with a biodegradable polymer.
"The new biolice 50C is fully commercially available in 750 octabins," she added.
SUMMARY OF THE ADVANTAGES OF SECOND GENERATION BIOLICE
* Transparency multiplied by 1.4 (an improvement of 27%).
* Permeability to oxygen is divided by 1.4 (a reduction of 30%).
* Surface roughness is reduced by 2.5 (a decrease of 58%).
* Rigidity (Young modulus) is multiplied by 1.4 (an increase of 40%)
* Extension at breaking point is multiplied by 1.1 (an increase of 11%).
