NEWS | JUST RELEASED | FEATURES | PRESS RELEASE ARCHIVES

FEATURES

Plastics Design Magazine Feature on Plastic Enhancers spotlights Oshenite's unique crystalline structure, purity and performance applications

2012.06 Plastics Design Magazine

According to Gary Miller, U.S. Aragonite's Vice President of Marketing, "Oshenite's load can be as high as 50% - two to three times more than mined calcium carbonate. He explains that plastics blended with Oshenite™ allow more efficient production, reduce energy consumption, reduce overall cost and leave a smaller carbon footprint." Plastics Design Magazine

Plastics News Headlines Oshenite™ as expanding calcium carbonate application

2012.05.29 Plastics News Post

"Oshenite can be used in loadings of as high as 50 percent, and can offer faster cycle times, shorter cooling times and improved stiffness when compared with standard calcium carbonates. Gary Miller, Executive Vice President, U.S.Aragonite Enterprises, credited the material’s 'purity and crystalline structure' with its enhanced performance." Plastics News

Flexible Packaging Outlook Report features Oshenite as one of three bio-based resins that will be the primary drivers of bioplastics demand through 2015...

2012.03.01 Flexible Packaging

"Another resin additive that can help reduce carbon footprints, Oshenite, produced by U.S. Aragonite, is a naturally occurring form of purified calcium carbonate that can be used for film and sheet extruding and thermoforming. "Sustainable Films and Substrates: Degradable or Recyclable?" published in Flexible Packaging online by Felipe Sixto

Packworld Magazine 2012.07.24 >

U.S. Aragonite Enterprises has shipped commercial quantities of its renewable performance mineral to satisfy market interest generated over the past 12 months. The first ship load, containing 15,000 tons of Oshenite, arrived in Houston, TX, for processing in mid-July 2012.

Packaging Digest Magazine 2012.07.18 >
see spotlight in August 2012 issue>

Plastics Design Magazine 2012.06 >

Plastics News 2012.05.29>
"This could change the way the industry works with calcium carbonate, (Gary) Miller (Executive Vice President, U.S. Aragonite Enterprises said of Oshenite...(it) represents a performance foundation for bioplastics. The material replaces resins at high concentrations in product applications and because it is created naturally, there is less carbon footprint, less energy expense involved..."

Flexible Packaging 2012.03.01>
"Another resin additive that can help reduce carbon footprints, Oshenite, produced by U.S. Aragonite, is a naturally occurring form of purified calcium carbonate that can be used for film and sheet extruding and thermoforming."-Sustainable Films and Substrates: Degradable or Recyclable?" by Felipe Sixto

Exec Digital 2011.12>
"U.S. Aragonite Enterprises announces the results of USDA Lab Research confirming its Oshenite™ brand as a renewable resource."

Biofuels Digest 2011.12.07>
"...USDA lab research confirmed Aragonite’s Oshenite brand as a renewable resource. The company said that it is playing a leading role in an important USDA grant project out of Iowa State to build 100% biorenewable content for bioplastic crop containers for the horticulture industry."

Packaging Digest 2011.11.03>
"Pine Poly Inc. introduces flexible packaging made with...Oshenite annually renewable materials."

Packaging Digest 2011.11.01>
"Ocean-farmed resin substitute enters packaging market...(Oshenite) introduced at PACK EXPO Las Vegas is being touted as a sustainable material with a virtually limitless, renewable supply."

Packaging Digest Briefs 2011.11.01>
"Lab tests confirm Oshenite is renewable..."

Packaging Digest 2011.10.06>
"Record-busting PACK EXPO shows off...Zip-Pak is testing a new line of PE and PP reclosable zippers made with up to 40 percent Oshenite renewable materials as an alternate to fossil fuel-based plastics."

Packaging Design 2011.12 (pg 40)> | pdf
"...when specified for injection molding, thermforming or blown film applications, the additive (Oshenite) lowers the resulting plastics packaging's carbon footprint."