Innovia Films Limited

Food Freshness Technology Holdings Limited

Jamie Moffat

Colin Marshall

Jonathan Hewitt

Adam Edkins

Caroline Zeyfert

Lawrence James Davison Matthews

Elizabeth Tatlock

A film for use in a packaging structure, comprising a coating on the film surface which comprises a binder and a particulate protuberant component able to remove a volatile organic compound from an environment in contact with the film in the packaging structure. Also provided is a packaging structure comprising such a film and a package which comprises the packaging structure.

Film

The present invention concerns a biodegradable cigarette filter tow comprising composite filaments of cellulose and cellulose acetate, and a process for making such a filter tow comprising providing a solution dope comprising a blend of cellulose and cellulose acetate in an ionic liquid or in N-methylmorphilone-N-oxide (NMMO), and spinning casting the blend into a protic solvent to generate fibers or films, and converting the fibers or films into cigarette filter tow. The invention also concerns cigarette filters and cigarettes made from such a filter tow.

Biodegradable composites

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Wigton, United Kingdom

Jamie Moffat