Dear all,

Today, a Danimer Scientific's investor named David Schaffer asked a great question in our campaign page, and I believe it's important for all of you to also know how Timeplast compares to its main U.S. competitor. 

Danimer Scientific's most important plastic is PHA (polyhydroxyalkanoates), and based on this plastic, we will elaborate on 3 major disadvantages that Danimer has when compared to Timeplast. 

1. Danimer Scientific, not a true innovator

2. Manufacturing cost / Plastic’s price point / Scalability

3. Vision / Approach to sustainability

We will be posting 3 separate updates addressing each point, so please stay tuned!

Here's David's question:

"Just curious. I've been an investor in Danimer Scientific for a few years. Danimer seem to be a direct competitor with existing customer relationships and rapidly scalable production. They seem well ahead of you. How does your product compare to theirs visa vis cost per unit. How much will it cost you to build a facility that is capable of producing 100mm tons/year of output?"

Timeplast's answer (Part 1):

Danimer Scientific is a well known company offering bio-based alternatives and we are inspired by their noble approach to aiding in the fight against Plastic Pollution.  Personally, I love some of their patented chemical approaches. We're happy and supportive of their success in being a publicly traded company. The plastic market is so extremely large ($593 billion) as you may know, which makes it necessary to have many players in the space if we hope to tackle this monumental challenge.  I have nothing but respect for Danimer Scientific. 

Having said that, they are not ahead of Timeplast in technological terms as you mentioned. On the contrary, our tech is at least three generations ahead of their most advanced product; please allow me to elaborate:

Timeplast’s chemical pathways, manufacturing techniques, end-of-life engineering, polymerization efficiency and versatility, carbon footprint, and even the overall vision of the Plastic Pollution issue in comparison with Danimer’s are so innovative, that they represent a never seen before portfolio of products and engineering solutions.

Danimer is in fact ahead us in terms of funding status: they had raised $220M by 2020, we're only in the <$1M range total raised.

1. Danimer Scientific, not a true innovator: 

As far back as 1925, Lemoigne discovered PHB plastic, which is a poly(hydroxyalkanoate) material, a biodegradable plastic produced by microorganisms. It was found that several other bacterial strains could also produce PHB, just what Danimer has. In my professional opinion, there is almost no innovation in Danimer Scientific's PHA, specially when compared with Lemoigne 1925's polymer, since it represents an almost perfect by-the-book molecular match.

Timeplast on the other hand, uses a polymer array so innovative that its type of chemistry used has started to appear only recently in a study published in Nature Chemistry Journal, where Peter Christensen and colleagues discovered how to make a new plastic which could be fully broken down and then fully repolymerized in a single heating cycle respectively, using a PDK poly(ketoenamine)s innovative pathway. This process is so pioneering that it was labeled as the “$2.5 trillion Holy Grail of Plastics”. All of this at a time where Timeplast had already been working for 15 years on the same hyper-complex chemical problem, and having patented a very similar approach but with a commercially available plastic, instead of a laboratory specimen like Christensen, since we managed to further innovate in the depolymerization and repolymerization mechanisms to the point we could replicate this pathway in many different types of polymers. 

To be continued...

Timeplast is the only company in the world with a planetary decarbonization level. 

We're decarbonizing from beginning to end in 4 stages:

Sourcing: Bringing carbon in petroleum form from the Lithosphere or spending energy in growing crops to make plastics generates a vast amount of CO2. Timeplast’s raw materials and its sourcing are independent from petroleum and crops production, which reduces significantly our sourcing’s carbon footprint given that alcohol production for industrial applications mostly comes from the distillation of organic waste.

Polymerization energy: To make plastics takes a lot of energy. We've created a patented pathway and compounds that polymerize itself while being used (extruded, injected, blown or thermo-formed), which means that we provide a double use to the plastics’ manufacturing energy, drastically reducing our carbon footprint and bypassing the industry's most energy intense step.

Plastic Pollution/Cleaning/Depolymerization energy: To take responsibility of our plastic waste, to clean and to solve the issue of plastic pollution will take a tremendous amount of energy, current methods such as recycling or composting even when not truly solving the problem, still use copious amounts of energy. Using the energy of the Sun in Earth’s Water Cycle to fully break down our plastics makes Timeplast the best sustainable and efficient alternative to deal with our own waste.

The alternative to biodegradation: The route of biodegradation and burning of plastics may have sounded positive to most in the past, however it's been demonstrated that if we hypothetically biodegrade all of our plastic waste, we would be injecting millions of tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere altering Earth's climate. Nature intended for most of the carbon in the environment to be soil uptake rather than biogas. Water solubility is Earth's way to clean wasteful materials while keeping organic materials as soil uptake only biodegrading them when needed and required by the ecosystem, not before.

According to the U.S. Geological Survey, there are over 332,519,000 cubic miles of water on the planet, out of this vast volume, the National Geophysical Data Center estimates that 321,003,271 cubic miles is in the oceans.

On the other hand, a renowned group of scientists published a paper in the Journal Science in 2015 estimating the total amount of plastic waste entering the oceans, which summed to a maximum of 12.7 million tonnes.

To replicate these numbers on a smaller scale, we've prepared an oceanic water marine aquarium, with a living marine ecosystem, including different fish and coral species, and we're dumping the equivalent of the maximum amount of plastic estimated to enter the oceans in 2015 multiplied by 10,000, in order for us to study what would happen to marine life if that enormous mass of Timeplast waste were to enter the oceans. In our case it'll be a 47gr sample in 26 gallons of a close-loop marine ecosystem. We'll make a time-lapse video and we will post it in an upcoming update.

Stay tuned!

Manuel.

Dear all,

Toilet paper is one of the most sold materials on the planet, but its environmental impact is severe because, since it is so short-lived, it quickly releases carbon into the atmosphere (more on its impact here), not to mention that since paper is insoluble in water, it clogs piping systems, and generates significant damages every year.

One of the strongest points about Timeplast tech, is the ability to homogeneously entangle at a molecular level with a vast array of different materials, including paper. We've been studying using Timeplast as an excipient in toilet paper, not only to replace a significant amount of paper in the formula, without compromising quality and user experience, but also to make every toilet paper sheet soluble in water. 

This is one of the avenues we need to focus our R&D efforts, since toilet paper and the paper-hygiene sector is yet another untouched market by Material Science's innovation; we're aiming to disrupt an extensive size of the paper, metal, glass and plastic material markets.

Man Rendon.

Dear all,

An interview by Léa Bouhelier-Gautreau has been published here, and I believe it answers the question why other "green" alternatives pail in comparison to Timeplast and why Timeplast is the way to go.

As always thank you for your time and support!

Manuel.

Dear all,

I just wanted to quickly share a recent scientific study that further emphasizes the importance of Timeplast being massively implemented. 

"Microplastic pollution has been detected in human blood for the first time, with scientists finding the tiny particles in almost 80% of the people tested.

The discovery shows the particles can travel around the body and may lodge in organs. Researchers are concerned as microplastics cause damage to human cells in the laboratory and air pollution particles are already known to enter the body and cause millions of early deaths a year."

Given that the surface of the Earth and the composition of our bodies is mostly made of water, Timeplast and water-soluble materials are the only way to address these issues and adapt the chemistry of the plastics we use to the Grand Chemistry of our bodies and our Planet.

You can read the entire article here:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/24/microplastics-found-in-human-blood-for-first-time

And the scientific study here:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412022001258

Thank you again for your support!

Manuel Rendon.

Dear all,

As soon as we reach our funding goal, we will prepare and ship a prototype sample of our material to every investor, so you can see with your own eyes how Timeplast disappears; not in weeks, months or years, but in a matter of hours.

Thank you again for your support.

Man Rendon. 

Dear all,

As we continue our funding journey, we've come across great questions by the community, you'll find our answers to them in the discussion/comments panel of our campaign (here). 

In the answers, we addressed some of the most important key aspects of Timeplast, and we'd like to encourage you to take a look.

Thank you for your the support!

Manuel R.

Timeplast's potential of having an impact in almost every aspect of our society can't be overstated. A big thank you to everyone who has invested; We're humbled and excited to share our journey with you as we believe that together we can truly change the world.