Industrial

Cleaners Safer "new uses" cleaning products made from corn and soybeans have been developed and are being used worldwide.  Multipurpose industrial strength solvent and glass and surface cleaners are cost competitive and do not create hazardous waste or water pollution.  Waterless hand cleaners are healthier for the skin, do not crack the hands or smell.  In electric applications where material failure and death occur, the hand cleaners have passed industry specifications and standards tests conducted by utilities, high voltage rubber glove makers and government laboratories.

 

Container packaging Cornstarch is used in the production of paper packaging materials such as corrugated cardboard. Low cost, environmentally-friendly, pre-formed packaging for electronic equipment, egg cartons, and as a substitute for corrugated containers has also been developed. These new packaging products made from popcorn will replace those made largely from petroleum.

 

Food packaging Popcorn is bringing an alternative in food service packaging, with the functional characteristics of molded polystyrene for use in plates, cups, and serving packages such as hamburger clamshells. Made from a vegetable-product, this packaging offers a safer product for consumers and the environment.

 

Lubricants International Lubricants, Inc. synthesizes specialty lubricant additives from agricultural oils and formulates them into environmentally benign lubricants for consumer, industry and automotive uses. High-performance lubricants refined from renewable crop oils rather than imported petroleum cost more short-term - and much less long- term. The immediate payoff is that these new oils offer smoother running systems. Long-term benefits include such environmental payoffs as cleaner air,  purer water and less depletion of our fossil fuels. These oils are required in applications such as hydraulic fluids for use in earth-moving equipment operating around dams and other locations where surface or ground water could be contaminated.

 

Packing peanuts "Packing Peanuts" made of nearly 100% corn and wheat are now available.  Made from a renewable resource, biodegradable packaging peanuts do not add to our problems of waste disposal.  Products made from styrofoam take up valuable landfill space, and styrofoam can take up to 20 years to decompose.  They contain no harmful products that will endanger the environment.  Environmentally safe starch peanuts may be put in a compost pile or allowed to disappear naturally in water.

 

Snack packs Oat flour contains antioxidants that retard rancidity in fat-containing foods; it is a preservative inner coating for paper bags used to package salted nuts, coffee, and potato chips.  Vegetable-based inks are used for safer packaging where ink may come in contact with our food.

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