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Hello, hello! We’re joined by bug expert and patent machine Mounir Izallalen in this episode. An expert in microbiology and its applications to provide solutions to real life problems, he’s currently working on creating compostable food packaging solutions with Eastman’s brand Aventa. With Cellul
0:00 – the packaging domain and he said all the future of of packaging...
hello hello today we have Monir isalin the Strategic Alliance manager at Eastman and also a board member with BPI Monir I’ve been so excited about this conversation because I come from the cellulosic world but I’m very far removed from the cellulose acetate World which is obiously an agency but it’s always such an intriguing domain so thank you so
12:00 – Material Sciences company or still a chemical company I would go with...
business um award system and we were funded for one year and two year and doing that process I fell in love with the commercial side of science so it was just okay it’s fun doing things in Academia and people are doing some amazing uh work there but I I felt more at ease and kind of mission driven when it was a commercial application for these uh f
24:00 – Grease barrier because the material in itself uh does not have you...
does not have that kind of exposure that Kodak had so it was a very good strategic move given uh what happened to the photo industry so uh yeah we’re doing just fine uh but if you look at our our you know performance we are always close to N 10 billion dollar um you know business every year so yeah that’s that’s very yeah because Kodak of course wa
36:00 – two technology here we have the um um the polymer recycling technology...
the compostability so uh so yes there is um there is a you know pretty good um value there for for the protein trays uh whether it’s chicken or or meat uh you know beef meat or sausages so there’s a lot of interest there and as I said there is already some Commercial Success there and are you looking at deeper products like a cup so so probably thi
48:00 – are pushed because of legislation so there are some legislation that market...
in experience and in age we get more blinkers on and it’s always good to have young energy than to poke holes you know like nope cannot be done so you know so that’s that’s the challenge because you never know when it can be done so yeah something V that I tell to junior scientists it’s always a huge opportunity when somebody tells you it can’t be
60:00 – let's say even the compostable material because yes you compare compostable material...
shift on the way that we are thinking on the product that we are putting in the market you’ve heard about this epr this extended producer responsibility scheme which which is very important to eventually help all these product end up the way that we want them to end up recycled or composted so um I think the interplay and the collaboration across a
72:00 – amenable to to compostable material so this is I think the challenge...
there’s 10 initiatives that are out there so that’s um that’s very U that’s very uh important for the industry to grow so um and I don’t know if this is something that will end up becoming a new trade Association or eventually is going to end up in in a given uhbe as a subset as a you know an effort inside a different organization so that’s what I
84:00 – decide that this material is plastic then eventually you lose Market access...
in between you know protecting those beautiful delicate seeds and you know and the B building blocks of of just just carbohydrates and amino acids and you know and then it’s just fascinating and and and I think that that whole idea that whole domain and how can we adapt and learn from that just the trees you know the carbon sequestration you take c
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