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It took 75 episodes for us to get someone from Eastern Europe, and we couldn’t have asked for a better representative! Angela Ivanova, the co-Founder & CEO at LAM’ON, is a Bulgaria based entrepreneur who is working along with Gergana Stancheva and Philip Ublekov to create a bio-based and compostab
0:00 – an innovation was the laminating film that goes onto paper and cardboard...
hello hello we have Angela Ivanova co-founder and CEO of lemon with us today and lemon is a company based in Bulgaria Angela you you probably don’t know this but it is the first time we are being able to record with somebody from Eastern Europe so I’m I’m going to actually I’m not putting you on the spot but I’m going to have you teach us more abou
10:00 – Plastics and now I'm super passionate about it I mean I've never...
so much like how to play chess or how to do mats and in the meantime my my grandmother was um telling telling me a bit more on how to grow your own food and that you have to love and respect animals uh whatever you do because you know people here in Bulgaria we um meat here as food is not something super traditional usually I mean of course you hav
21:00 – is that is supposed to be uh implemented onto paper cardboard with...
when it comes to uh to Bulgarian um Alternatives over here there were I think loin Hut uh this is a European thing place it’s around Europe yeah uh and we just wanted to to make something that is like really um relatable when it comes to like the same as if they are the Bulgarian dishes but in on a vegan manner because a lot of the like let’s say l
31:00 – of plastic cups that are now paper cups with plastic uh coating...
different lamination laminators there are this massive laminators uh there is cold lamination as well there is hot lamination it depends on the material and of course on the price because called lination yes it it varies actually prices can vary according to the needs and according to the uh finish of certain films there are anti-stretch they are U
42:00 – calling our products uh biodegradable or compostable uh these biased materials that...
pbsp bad PB which is easier to uh kind of break down is there a reasoning behind that yeah it’s the raw materials I mean we are using Renewables this is something that uh for us it makes more sense it it it is emitting less carbon in the process of the making and when it comes to the end of life there are a lot of petroleum based things that are su
53:00 – paper and a polymer coming together or paper is also a polymer...
the additives currently that we have are actually we don’t have to treat the corona the surface of the film in order for it to be printable which is very good it is just uh treated I mean we don’t have to overt treat it again and this is saving what electricity which is super nice and of course there is no ozone uh because of it uh because this uh
63:00 – in their behavior in their company even make inner Innovation make Innovations...
well divided when it comes to National legislations for wte streams but in that sense we are adapting according to the to different markets so uh and that’s why we have all of the certificates and all of the measurements and metrics that we would very much like to present to our customers if they are interested no I think that’s really wise because
74:00 – Plastics in in new plastic right but still this is still plastic...
how are you seeing that and I know you are also participating a bit in that side of policy so how do you see that evolving and what would your desire be in order to be able to you know take that forward to the direction which you feel is more correct yeah well I’m afraid that there’s a lot of lobbying here as well which is not uh not in the right d
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