ABSTRACT:
Nature always played a major role into the Brazilian development, since the first day of its discovery with the wood of Brazil or Pau Brasil (Caesalpinia braziliensis) which gave it its name. With a land mass of 8.5 million km2 and 180 million inhabitants, borders with 10 South American countries, 5 phyto-geographical regions, as Amazonia, Mata Atlantica, Cerrado, Pantanal and Caatinga, more than 5 million km2 of vegetation, Brazil is the world's'largest botanical garden with about 56 thousand plant species!

The beauty of Nature is quite comparable to the beauty of the Brazilian People! The search for a perfect body and beautiful hair is a daily concern for a people living according to the rythme of Well-Being, Being-Well, in other words, Bem Estar, Estar Bem.

Closer than ever to their own biodiversity, Brazilians are constantly referring to their phyto-traditional knwoledge and even more renewing it by rediscovering old beauty receipes.

As much as fruits, flowers, roots, seeds, leaves and shells are plant parts, they are just involved into skin and hair care. Among others, Let's'discover in particular the fruity and lovely maracuja (Passiflora edulis), the scented root of Priprioca, the delicious and nutritive vegetal honey (Polymnia sonchifolia), the majectic Parana Pine (Araucaria angustifolia) and the mysterious Brazilian ginseng (Pfaffia glomerata)...

Jean-Francois, a biotechnological engineer, joined the Solabia Group in 1992 as Export Manager before taking charge of the Marketing Department. He is currently Sales and Marketing Director working in particular on sustainable development programs in close collaboration with both French and Brazilian Solabia Group R&D centers.

ABSTRACT:

Bio-resins are quickly making their way into mainstream plastic applications, packaging in particular. They have been embraced, misunderstood, and disclaimed by many.

The reality is that they are here to stay, will be improved over time, and will become a part of the plastic processing landscape for years to come.

This presentation will discuss applications that lend themselves to the use of bio-resins and those that don’t due to package design, resin limitations, product appearance targets, chemical resistance etc.

If you choose to market a product as compostable or biodegradable, the regulations that must be met will be outlined and discussed as they relate to both un-modified and modified bio-resins.

Also covered will be the latest in commercially available colorants and functional modifiers for bio-resins and the related regulatory considerations.

Wylie H. Royce is Sr. Vice President of Royce Associates which was founded in 1929, as a Chemical Manufacturer. He became a Senior Managing Director in 1981.

Wylie is Chairman of the Society of Plastics Industries “Color and Additive Products Subcommittee” of the Food Drug and Cosmetic Packaging Materials Committee, and SPI’s Communication and Marketing Advisory Committee. He has been named a permanent member of International Who’s Who’ in Business Professionals, Who’s Who among rising Young Americans and Interesting Personalities of America and is a member of the Health Beauty America Technical Advisory Board. Wylie regularly speaks on regulatory subjects relating to plastics in food, drug and cosmetic packaging, sustainability as well as the international business climate and its effect on products produced in and imported into the US.
He also authored “Navigating the Turbulent Waters of Global Colorant Regulations”.
Wylie holds a US Patent in a proprietary method utilizing electron beam modification of resin to create marbleized colorant effects for injection-molded products.

Royce Associates specializes in creating colorants and functional additives for Food Contact, Drug, Cosmetic and Personal Care packaging.. The company offers Customer Assistance and Training in obtaining approvals required by various agencies in the US and Western Europe and Latin America. Royce has manufacturing sites in NJ and NC, and a Technical Center in Tianjin China as well as manufacturing partners in India, China, Thailand, and Korea. It’s six Divisions serve the Paper, Textile, Aerospace, Plastic Colorant, Functional Additives, Personal Care, Cosmetic, Food Packaging, House wares, Synthetic Rubber, and Construction Industries.