NatureWorks LLC Springs into a New Look!

For years now, many of you have been telling us how much you enjoy receiving the NatureWorks LLC In the Works and Ingeo Bulletin e-newsletters. These have been a great ways for NatureWorks LLC to share news on our partners' latest and most innovative Ingeo products made from our biopolymers. They also included industry news in the areas of packaging, fibers and durable goods markets, as well as information on legislature, stakeholders and environmental stewardship. To make this whole process simpler and to serve you better, we have combined the best of both to bring you the first ever "Ingeo News" - your resource for commercial and technical news on Ingeo innovations around the globe. Enjoy! And let us know what you think of our new format.

Ingeo Earth Month 2008

Ingeo Earth Month - a New Journey towards Change. NatureWorks LLC marks its fourth annual Ingeo Earth Month event with a journey around the world showing a broad range of brands and retailers now selling Ingeo innovations - proof positive that Responsible Innovation has indeed come to everyday life. It started on April 22nd celebrating United Nations Earth Day and runs through to World Environment Day on June 5th. This event was started 3 years ago to give voice and focus to a more sustainable way of doing business. It's now grown and expanded to become a recognized dynamic calendar moment for bio-business and media alike.

Participation is growing again this year where we expect to exceed the current offer of more than 20 different product application categories produced by over 100 partners whose products are commercially available and on sale to the consumer in as many as 70,000 retail outlets worldwide. Ingeo Earth Month includes 3 key focal events in New York, Paris and Tokyo. For more information, visit: www.ingeoearthmonth.com.

View the 2008 LookBook and Partner Portfolio here.

Recent Launches/Adoptions  

EUROPE 

Bodin
This company from France has launched a new Ingeo Foam Tray design for fresh meat, fish and cheese. Read more.

CDS
A leading Italian company in food serviceware has recently developed a new Ingeo cutlery line. Read more.

Cargo Cosmetics
Ingeo durable casings for cosmetics are used by Cargo Cosmetics with their Cargo Plant Love collection, with which Cargo won the award for the best ECO-friendly packaging in show at the HBA Global Expo.

DS Technical Nonwovens
DS Technical Nonwoven has launched a new range of Ingeo exhibition grade carpeting in a wide range of colors, called Ecopunch® which is marketed by Sommer Needlepunch. Read more.

Heuchemer
Announces Ingeo Fresh food packaging containers for Kiwi fruit, realized in thermoformed Ingeo sheet. Read more.

Nude Pack
UK-based packaging manufacturer produces a range of Ingeo shrink sleeves made of EarthFirst® films. Read more.

Sant'Anna
Sant'Anna from Italy provides Ingeo bottles that display better rigidity, good clarity and excellent flavor and aroma barrier properties making them ideal for juice and still water. Read more.

Swangold
Announces their new Ingeo containers for fresh herbs. Read more.

ASIA PACIFIC

Cool Change Natural Spring Water
Australia's first Carbon Neutral bottled water company to package spring water into an Ingeo bottle. Available in 500ml at selected retailers and cafés in Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland or direct from the source. Cool Change plans not just on relying on carbon credits or offsets to go carbon neutral by the end of this year, but are aiming to reduce their embodied CO2 from production by more than 90% through the use of bio diesel for powering the production facility and their trucks, and utilizing offsets for the emissions that cannot be avoided.

Good Water
The first Southern Hemisphere bottled water product using Ingeo comes in two sizes: 650ml and 375ml. Good Water can be purchased at various retail outlets in New Zealand.

Natures Organics
Launched Ingeo bottled shampoo in Australia. It stands true to their name by using natural-based ingredients as the foundation of their beauty and cleaning products. Their mission is to make exceptional products that encapsulate their commitment to finding sustainable solutions for the overwhelming environmental concerns facing society today.

NORTH AMERICA

A-ROO
A-ROO has announced a film sleeve made from Ingeo natural plastic for plantable pots. The sleeve is used as outer packaging for Westwind Gardens' Planet Wise™ organic plants.

Fres-co
Using BI-AX Inc.'s EVLON film, Fres-co has developed a proprietary multi-layer film structure that uses Ingeo as one of the layers effectively replacing the 48ga. PET film layer with a 80 ga. Ingeo layer. The thicker Ingeo layer allowed for a reduction in the LLDPE film layer. This new Ingeo laminate is used on the 10oz and 12oz bags of Newman's Own Organic, Jim's Organic Coffee, and Green Mountain coffees.

Microsoft
Is using Ingeo overwrap solutions for CD, and DVD game cases and has plans for future software boxes using both Evlon® film from BI-AX Inc. and EarthFirst® film from Plastic Suppliers. Injection molded cases made from Ingeo are also in development.

Naturally Iowa
Debuted Yogurt 7.0, a pro-biotic yogurt, at the IDFA Smart Marketing Conference which uses an EarthFirst® shrink sleeve label made from Ingeo in combination with a Ingeo bottle. Product will hit retail shelves in May of 2008.

Noble Juice
This fresh juice manufacturer has now enhanced their 32 oz. Ingeo natural plastic bottle with the new EarthFirst shrink sleeve label also made from Ingeo. This Ingeo natural plastic bottle/label combination hit store shelves in February 2008 and is available at Wal-Mart stores throughout the US as well as at a number of additional grocery retailers including Publix, Kroger, Stop & Shop and Giant Eagle.

Primo Water
Primo bottle water is more environmentally-friendly because it is bottled in bottles made from Ingeo natural plastic, the world's first and only performance plastic made from 100% annually renewable-resources. Primo will be sold in a multipack of eighteen 16.9 oz. bottles and will be available nationally this spring in select leading retailers, including all Kroger stores in the east in April and all remaining Kroger stores throughout 38 states by mid-May. Primo recognizes that not all consumers have access to recycling options that accept Ingeo natural plastic; in some cases consumers have no access to any plastics recycling. As their continued good product stewardship, Primo is exploring opportunities to work with industry experts to expand the availability of recovery and other viable technologies for its bottles that are beneficial to the environment. They encourage consumers to take advantage of any recovery opportunity everyday. Learn more at primowater.com.

Quaker Oats
Is now using Plastic Suppliers EarthFirst tamper band film made from Ingeo on their oat cereal and grits canisters. Company is also targeting an Ingeo tamper band for Quaker's Aunt Jemima syrup brand.

Tropiclean
Tropiclean natural dog shampoo, by Cosmos Manufacturing, is the first pet care product on the market in Ingeo packaging. The seven varieties of dog shampoos are packaged in white Ingeo bottles and overwrapped with printed full-body Ingeo shrink sleeves. The line launched April 1st, and is available online and through select pet care retailers.

Natural Selection. It's simple. If we can make the products we need have less impact on the environment - make them work and make them desirable as well, then everyone benefits. That is what we at NatureWorks LLC have done. Our NatureWorks® biopolymers are made from plants instead of oil and we call these Ingeo natural plastics, which our partners use to create an entirely new generation of lifestyle products, or Ingeo innovations. Ingeo: it's a simple and ingenious idea, designed to make better products. Better for the planet, so better for you and business too.

Don't Miss...

Innovation Takes Root 2008

September 16-18, 2008

A NatureWorks' Sponsored Collaborative Conference on Downstream Innovation for Better Market Solutions

We'd like to invite you to this first of it's kind global conference to learn more about the technological innovations of today's fastest growing biopolymer. Come learn about the latest research developments on biopolymers, including Ingeo™ natural plastic, from industry leader NatureWorks LLC and other renowned polylactide producers, scientists and engineers. Meet today's industry solution-providers, connect with fellow colleagues in the field and more!

Keynote speakers include:

	Larry Wendling Vice President Research & Development, 3M
	Dr. Masatoshi Matsuda Senior Staff Engineer, Toyota Motor Corporation
	Ron Pernick co-author, "The Clean Tech Revolution"

Hear technical presentations from companies such as Samsung, Kao Corporation and others.

Early Bird discount available until June 15th! To register, visit: www.innovationtakesroot.com.

Navigating the End of Life Roadmap

The end-of-life vision for Ingeo™ natural plastic products biopolymer in the long term is to maintain a journey to zero waste, keeping the polymer, regardless of form, out of the landfill and being able to recycle into the same use or higher valued use if possible. The ideal solution is chemical hydrolysis back into lactic acid for processing into essentially new Polylactide resin.

We understand that products and packaging made from our resin will be landfilled or incinerated at the end of their useful life in the near term, but through industry partners, future innovation, technology and education we are looking to build a bridge to a better end of life. To gain a better understanding of exactly where packaging waste goes, we’ve developed an interactive End of Life Roadmap. For more information on the end-of-life vision of NatureWorks LLC, please refer to the end-of-life section of our website.

Dr. Nangeroni Receives Distinguished Service Award

Dr. Jim Nangeroni, Lead Applications Engineer, has been selected as the 2008 recipient of the SPE's Extrusion Division Distinguished Service Award. This is an annual award presented to individuals for their service and dedication to the SPE Extrusion Division and extrusion industry. Dr. Nangeroni has been employed with NatureWorks for 7 years and currently leads development of bi-axially oriented film extrusion and foam.

Congratulations to Cryovac Sealed Air Corp

NatureWorks congratulates Cryovac Sealed Air Corp for being chosen a 2008 Institute of Packaging Professionals AmeriStar winner for their innovative NatureTRAY™ foam tray used for packaging meats and produce. IoPP (www.iopp.org) holds the AmeriStar Package Awards each year to honor the best packages of the year. The NatureTRAY is a light weight foam tray made entirely of Ingeo natural plastic, made from plants, and is a welcome addition to the portfolio of Ingeo Innovations for the Food Packaging industry!

Come See Us at these Industry Events

MAY

Ingeo Earth Month
Date: April 22 - June 5
Established in 2005, this global event celebrates responsible innovation brought to life by Ingeo innovations.
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Date: May 4-7
Location: Las Vegas, Nevada
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Date: May 17-20
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Booth: 9360
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JUNE

2008 AIP National Conference
Date: June 12-13
Location: Luna Park, Sydney, Australia
Presentation - Friday, June 13th:
"Building a global market for new-to-world biopolymer products", by Mr. Peter C. Clydesdale, Asia Pacific Managing Director, NatureWorks LLC
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Date: June 16-18
Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota
Panel Discussion: Mary Rosenthal, Corporate Communications and Public Affairs presenting on panel: "Innovations and the Future in Sustainable Packaging"
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