Normec OWS and B4Plastics launch biodegradation pre-screening platform

In Belgium, Normec OWS and B4Plastics recently launched a revolutionary biodegradation pre-screening platform. This innovation aims to significantly reduce testing times for biodegradable materials—addressing a major bottleneck in the sustainable materials industry and accelerating the transition to a microplastics-free future.

The two innovators now joined forces to rethink biodegradability testing from the ground up. The result: a high-throughput pre-screening platform designed to generate big data, needed for B4Plastics has carved out a unique position in the biomaterials landscape by engineering custom biodegradation rates for its bio-based products.