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Chiao Plas Environmental friendly particles

Chiao Fu Material Technology Co., Ltd in one of the products to develop together with Taiwan Agriculture
companies under the Chiao Fu Group and was founded Research Institute Council of Agriculture, Plastics Industry
in 1976 as specialized polyurethane foam manufacturer Development Center and National Chung-Shan Institute
and expanded into the plastic industry in 1983. In order of Science & Technology. To use agriculture trash such as
to provide customers more professional technical support Brewery spent grain for material based, and integrate with
and service, and purchase various advanced testing Polylactic acid and unique strain to develop biodegradable
instruments from Germany, USA, Japan to support to mulch film, this kind of material character by compost
satisfy customer request. environment to degrade to CO2 and H2O.
All material in formula of mulch film get approval from
Germany DIN CERTO, USA BPI, Japan JBPA, and Taiwan
Patent, also sale in market.
Biodegradable mulch film already accomplished twice
times of trail report for strawberry, watermelon, tomato
in warm room filed, design of filed area, crop growth
investigation and crop volume, total three trial items.

During trial process to divide three kind of mulch film,
first one is with traditional film, second one is with
Our product lines include Nylon 6, Nylon 66, Biodegradable biodegradable mulch film (without unique strain), last
material, PP to reinforced function and modified alloy one is with biodegradable mulch film (with unique strain).
material. According to first time trail of watermelon to know there
is no different between PE mulch film and biodegradable
Chiao Fu Material Technology develops biodegradable film, for plant method is all the same for three kind of film,
mulch film, we cooperate with Agriculture Technology and for blight processing also no difference. Therefore, our
Research Institute and local city unit to accomplish RD unit try to adjust formula to increase mulch film MD/
strawberry, watermelon and tomato filed, to confirm TD strength, the result we can find out the crop volume
product result which is able to replace traditional mulch is no less than traditional PE mulch, moreover it’s more
film, as well as after using then turn into soil, the mulch eco-friendlier for filed.
film will be fully biodegradable. Another benefit is for
farmers can reduce the cost of human resource to collect
film, and do not need to burn film after collection. It
is more advantage than traditional mulch film. By the
implementation of the agricultural science technology
project, Chiao Fu Material Technology across agriculture

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