Trellis Earth Products Files Patents on Proprietary Bioplastics Resins
Trellis Earth Products, Inc. (“Trellis” or the “Company”), a rapidly growing supplier and manufacturer of branded biodegradable food packaging and plastic bags made with renewable resources, announced that it has filed two new patents for bioplastics technology with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
The first of Trellis’ two new patent applications covers an improved method of bioplastics formulation and technology for the Company’s “sustainable” starch/hybrid blend, enabling the production of a food safe, waterproof, injection moldable and thermoformable blend at approximately 70% biomass. This represents a modification of the Company’s existing product blend (“Trellis Classic Blend”) adapted to new, high performance processing equipment for its U.S. manufacturing plant in Wilsonville, Oregon, leading to improved product qualities that include additional strength, higher biomass, lower cost, and greater formability, among other attributes.
