Erthos Inc.

$247,688.00 CAD

≈ 3 Canadians' average pay for a year
Department
National Research Council Canada
Program
Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
Recipient country
Canada
Fiscal year
2022-2023
Agreement period
January 1, 2023 – January 31, 2025
Reference
nrc-cnrc:172-2022-2023-Q4-1002298

Published purpose

Erthos Inc. has developed a proof of concept (POC) to develop and implement a biobased, compostable solution that leverages biobased additives found both in nature and developed internally, to optimize, tune and strengthen their plant-powered compostable biocomposite resin formulations, and to achieve the following technological advancements: 1) Viable injection moulding of the compostable resins; 2) Viable film cast extrusion of the compostable biocomposite resins; 3) Viable biocomposite resins for production in commercial-scale extruders; 4) Development of internal formulae to understand material end of life behaviour The proposed work plan consists of five (5) main activities as described below.

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