Q-Lab and Add-X Biotech Team up for Time-Lapse Study on Oxo-Biodegradation

Add-X Biotech and Q-Lab Corporation have teamed up to perform the first outdoor weathering test using an oxo-biodegradable plastic bag.
 
Jan. 10, 2012 - PRLog -- Add-X Biotech and Q-Lab Corporation have teamed up to perform the first outdoor weathering test using an oxo-biodegradable plastic bag.  Add-X is a Swedish biotech company, and the inventor behind the AddiFlex® oxo-biodegradable additive used in the test. Q-Lab is the worldwide leader in weathering test equipment and outdoor exposure testing services and performed the testing.

Add-X’s proprietary AddiFlex additive was added to the plastic bag in trace amounts.  The additive causes the films to oxidize, meaning that the structure of the plastic is attacked by oxygen.  This causes it to disintegrate and biodegrade more rapidly, ultimately metabolizing to CO2, water and biomass. This process is accelerated by the presence of heat and sunlight.  These factors made Q-Lab’s outdoor exposure testing facility in Buckeye, Arizona a perfect place to perform the experiment.

“After only 6 weeks of outdoor exposure testing, the results were astonishing,” says Eugen Mössner, the CTO of Add-X Biotech. “The bag had almost completely vanished.  The results exceeded our own high expectations, despite the very low additive levels. The results also correlate well with the parallel testing done in Q-Lab’s QUV accelerated weathering tester.”

Q-Lab used their decades of experience in the weathering field to jointly set up the tests with Add-X.  “With this great result, a deeper cooperation has been initiated between Q-Lab and Add-X,” Mr. Mössner goes on to say. “We are now undertaking a joint effort on further testing that will lay the foundation for future breakthroughs in the oxo-biodegradable market.”

Please visit www.q-lab.com/add-x to see a time-lapse video of the bag’s degradation.

For more information please contact:

Eugen Mössner
CTO                        
Add-X Biotech             
+49 761 299 53           
www.addxbiotech.com        

Brad Reis
Vice President of Marketing
Q-Lab Corporation
+1-440-835-8700
www.q-lab.com

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Q-Lab Corporation is a global provider of products and services for testing weathering, light stability, and corrosion. Products include Q-PANEL brand Standardized Test Substrates, the QUV Accelerated Weathering Tester, Q-SUN Xenon Test Chambers, the Q-SUN B02 Lightfastness Tester, the Q-FOG Cyclic Corrosion Tester, and the Q-RACK Outdoor Exposure Systems. Accelerated outdoor testing services are provided using the Q-TRAC Natural Sunlight Concentrator. With headquarters in Cleveland, Ohio USA, the company has sales and service locations in Europe and China, Weathering Research Service testing facilities in Florida and Arizona, and is represented by a worldwide network of qualified technical sales organizations. The quality, economy and reliability of Q-Lab's products and services have established the company's reputation as "The Most Trusted Name in Weathering."

Visit our website at www.q-lab.com.
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