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HGP – TemperPack Wins Patent for New Packaging Technology
RICHMOND, Va., July 29, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — TemperPack announced today that the company has been awarded patent number 10,357,936 by the US Patent Office for an advanced thermal and protective packaging material made from bonded polysaccharide particles.
This patent is the first related to ClimaCell, the company’s latest and most advanced material, which was introduced to the market late last year. ClimaCell is the first packaging material to match the thermal and cushioning properties of expanded polystyrene (EPS) that has also received the “Widely Recyclable” designation from How2Recycle®.
ClimaCell was developed out of an effort to find a scalable alternative to EPS, which is more commonly known as Styrofoam®. “We wanted to create an affordable material that could be used in multiple markets. That required us to come up with a manufacturing platform that would be massively scalable and run on widely available feedstock,” stated James McGoff, co-CEO of TemperPack.
To achieve sustainability at scale, the company experimented with hundreds of formulations and materials including: nonwoven battings comprising natural, synthetic, and paper fibers, macerated paper, shredded kraft and newsprint, molded pulp, corrugated designs, embossed tissue, filled honeycomb, mushroom-based materials, natural and synthetic extruded foams, thermoformed plastics such as rPET, and more.
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