从一个春天的约定，到一个盛夏的硕果，我们用了100天！
历经100天的产业链协同攻关，PHA（聚羟基脂肪酸酯）水性阻隔涂料技术迎来了决定性时刻。近日，PHA水性阻隔涂料在金光集团APP（中国）宁波基地成功完成工业级放大生产，标志着PHA水性阻隔涂层在全球范围内的首次工业级产线验证取得成功，产出的PHA食品卡阻隔纸各项性能指标均达到预定标准。
这一成果不仅成功打通了从PHA生物合成到终端纸制品应用的全产业链条，更标志着该项环保包装技术已完成关键的工业化验证，为后续的大规模商业化应用奠定了坚实基础。
此次工业级试产的成功，是微构工场（PHA原材料供应商）、都佰城（PHA水性阻隔涂料技术方案商）、金光集团APP（造纸龙头企业）与恒鑫生活（纸杯制造龙头企业）四家伙伴跨界协同、全链条创新的重要成果。它标志着一种全新的、环境友好的包装解决方案已经准备好从理想走进现实，为解决“全球白色污染”问题提供了强有力的“中国方案”。
四方跨企业协作，打通绿色包装“最后一公里”
传统的PE塑料淋膜纸杯、纸碗等在带来便利的同时，也因其无法降解极难回收而对环境构成巨大压力。PLA涂层纸杯测需要在工业条件下实现降解，且在回收再桨工艺中较难实现。寻找一种既能满足防水、防油的阻隔性能，又能实现可回收与完全生物降解的环保材料，成为行业面临的共同挑战。
PHA作为一种由微生物合成的天然高分子材料，具备优异的生物降解性和材料性能，被视为替代传统塑料的理想选择之一。然而，将实验室中的PHA原材料转化为能够满足水性涂料阻隔条件并适应高速、高温的现代化造纸工业生产线，并最终制成合格的消费品，需要打通技术、生产、应用等多个环节。
在此次合作中，四家企业各司其职，创建了行之有效的创新闭环：
从PHA原料到水性阻隔涂层，再到PHA食品卡纸，最后到成型的纸杯，整个过程在短短100天内一气呵成，展现了产业链协同带来的惊人效率与“中国速度”。
里程碑式的突破，引领产业绿色变革
PHA水性阻隔涂层纸在金光集团APP工业级试产的成功，不仅仅是一项技术的突破，更是对一种全新产业协作模式的成功验证。对于此次里程碑式的成功，各方负责人表达了各自观点。
金光集团大纸事业群全球CEO王乐祥表示：“将PHA水性涂层应用在高速的造纸机上，是金光集团的创新技术目标。通过一次次大胆而细心的尝试。这不仅为我们的产品线增添了更具可持续性的选择，也为整个造纸行业的绿色转型提供了宝贵的经验。这一成果，正是金光集团将ESG理念深度融入核心业务，以技术创新驱动企业社会责任的有力证明。”
都佰城董事长林凡秋补充道：“PHA是一个潜力巨大的世界级新材料，它的天然属性就是源于自然，归于自然。我们的工作是去发现并改性它的能力。在此次合作后，都佰城研发的两大水性阻隔涂层技术解决方案——聚焦减塑与可回收的ecoten技术，以实现零塑、可堆肥、可降解的bioten生物基技术——都得到了成功验证，今天这份工作的成果能参与到全球环境治理中，这让我们的持续努力无比坚定。”
微构工场董事长徐绚明认为：“这次工业级试产的成功，不仅是技术的突破，更是对一种全新产业协作模式的成功验证。它证明了只要产业链上下游企业目标一致、开放协作，就能够大大缩短创新周期，加速PHA技术从实验室走向市场的步伐。”
恒鑫生活董事长严德平总结道：“技术创新和行业引领一直是恒鑫人前行的准则。这次PHA水性涂层合作创新的速度，符合全球行业高质量竞争发展的需求。我们的战略目标是成为全球优秀的企业，而这次合作正是我们践行承诺的体现。”此次工业级试产的PHA涂层，在防水、防油、热封性等关键指标上均达到了预期标准，且在可回收、家庭堆肥等自然环境中可实现生物降解，无有害物质残留，这让我们底气十足的与全球更多著名餐饮品牌提供服务。
展望未来，四方将继续深化战略合作，加速推进PHA涂层纸的规模化生产与商业化进程。我们的目标是，尽快将包括纸杯、餐盒在内的一系列高性能绿色包装产品推向市场，为全球消费者提供安全、可靠且真正环境友好的选择。这不仅将为中国‘双碳’目标的实现贡献关键力量，也将为全球食品与餐饮企业应对日益严格的ESG法规、实现可持续发展目标提供一个强有力的中国方案。
关于四方合作企业介绍（按产业链上下游顺序）
关于微构工场（PHABuilder）
微构工场是一家在生物制造前沿领域极具创新影响力的科技公司，以“微小改变世界 构建绿色未来（From Microbes to a Green Future）”为核心使命，通过嗜盐微生物的改造和工程化应用，进行绿色高分子生物材料PHA（聚羟基脂肪酸酯）的研发和制造。依托创始团队近40年的PHA研究，微构工场通过不断挖掘超过100亿种组合方式的PHA家族、开发满足市场需求的改性应用、携手产业链合作伙伴提供PHA产业化整体解决方案，并最终推动“让PHA Life成为千家万户的生活方式”的美好愿景实现，落地PHAmily-PHAbrary-PHAdustry-PHA Life”的创新战略路径。未来，微构工场将不断以“全球合成生物学及生物制造的领头羊企业”的核心定位，为全球客户提供基于绿色生物基材料的可持续解决方案。
关于都佰城（DBC）
都佰城是一家专注于新材料应用的创新型企业，致力于环保高性能材料与绿色低碳产业的技术投资、研发与制造。自2010年在上海创立以来，凭借对功能性环保材料的持续探索，迅速成长为“上海市创新型企业”“专精特新企业”代表。业务覆盖；环保高性能材料的研发与应用创新，新能源材料、环保涂料、粘合剂、助剂、城市更新低碳建筑等多领域应用场景。都佰城旗下两大环保高性能涂料技术解决方案，Ecoten™阻隔涂料技术聚焦减塑与可回收，Bioten™PHA阻隔涂料技术针对可堆肥与可降解，并用领先的技术解决方案将新能源材料聚羟基脂肪酸酯创造出更多优秀的产品。
关于金光集团（APP）
金光集团APP(中国)全称为金光纸业(中国)投资有限公司及其在中国大陆投资的公司。自1992年进入中国以来，始终秉持可持续发展战略，以可持续造纸的“林浆纸一体化”理念，努力践行绿色循环。目前，APP(中国)旗下拥有林务事业部、纸浆事业部、大纸事业部群、生活用纸事业部等。2023年在华销售额约926亿元，总资产约2,427 亿元，全职员工数2.6 万名，是全球著名的造纸企业。
关于恒鑫生活（HXIN）
恒鑫生活（股票代码：301501），始建于1997年，是一家从事纸制与塑料餐饮具研发、生产和销售的高新技术企业，公司拥有丰富的产品线，产品质量优良，成为众多国内外知名企业的纸制与塑料餐饮具供应商，公司在可生物降解餐饮具领域具有优势地位，销售区域覆盖亚洲以及北美洲、大洋洲、欧洲等多个国家和地区。公司为中国塑料加工工业协会降解塑料专业委员会副会长单位、连续6年被评为中国轻工业塑料行业（降解塑料）十强企业，被评为、安徽省“专精特新”冠军企业、安徽省消费品工业“三品”示范企业，入选第四批专精特新“小巨人”企业名单；获得中国轻工业两化融合先进单位奖、生物基和生物分解材料市场推进贡献奖。公司拥有多个生产基地，产品覆盖快餐、外卖、饮品等餐饮行业，以及大型企业或机构、民用航空、家庭日用消费等各类消费场景，具备产品全流程的生产能力；公司的可生物降解餐饮具可实现生物降解，可以助力实现“双碳”目标，符合国家战略方向。
From a spring promise to a midsummer fruit, it took us 100 days!
After 100 days of collaborative research across the industry chain, PHA (polyhydroxyalkanoate) water-based barrier coating technology has reached a decisive moment. Recently, PHA water-based barrier coating has successfully completed industrial-scale scale-up production at the Ningbo base of APP Sinar Mas (China), marking the success of the first industrial-level production line verification of PHA water-based barrier coating in the world. All performance indicators of the produced PHA food card barrier paper have reached predetermined standards.
This achievement not only successfully opened up the entire industrial chain from PHA biosynthesis to terminal paper product applications, but also marked that this environmentally friendly packaging technology has completed key industrial verification, laying a solid foundation for subsequent large-scale commercial application.
The success of this industrial-grade trial production is an important result of cross-border collaboration and full-chain innovation among four partners: Bluepha (PHA raw material supplier), DBC (PHA water-based barrier coating technology solution provider), APP Sinar Mas (leading papermaking company) and Hengxin Life (leading paper cup manufacturing company). It marks that a new, environmentally friendly packaging solution is ready to move from ideal to reality, providing a powerful "Chinese solution" to solve the problem of "global white pollution".
Four parties cooperate across enterprises to open up the "last mile" of green packaging
While traditional PE plastic-coated paper cups and bowls bring convenience, they also put huge pressure on the environment because they cannot be degraded and are extremely difficult to recycle. PLA coated paper cupping needs to be degraded under industrial conditions, and is difficult to achieve in the recycling and repulping process. Finding an environmentally friendly material that can not only meet the barrier properties of water and oil, but also be recyclable and completely biodegradable has become a common challenge faced by the industry.
As a natural polymer material synthesized by microorganisms, PHA has excellent biodegradability and material properties, and is regarded as one of the ideal alternatives to traditional plastics. However, to transform the PHA raw materials in the laboratory into a modern papermaking industrial production line that can meet the barrier conditions of water-based coatings and adapt to high speed and high temperature, and finally make qualified consumer products, it is necessary to open up multiple links such as technology, production, and application.
In this cooperation, the four companies each performed their own duties and created an effective closed loop of innovation:
From PHA raw materials to water-based barrier coating, to PHA food cardboard, and finally to formed paper cups, the entire process was completed in just 100 days, demonstrating the amazing efficiency and "China speed" brought about by the collaboration of the industrial chain.
Milestone breakthrough, leading the green transformation of the industry
The successful trial production of PHA water-based barrier coated paper at the industrial level of APP Sinar Mas is not only a technological breakthrough, but also a successful verification of a new industrial collaboration model. Regarding this milestone success, the responsible persons from all parties expressed their respective views.
Wang Lexiang, global CEO of the large paper business group of Sinar Mas Group, said: "The application of PHA water-based coatings on high-speed paper machines is the innovative technology goal of Sinar Mas Group. Through bold and careful attempts, this not only adds more sustainable options to our product line, but also provides valuable experience for the green transformation of the entire paper industry. This result is a strong proof that Sinar Mas Group deeply integrates ESG concepts into its core business and drives corporate social responsibility through technological innovation."
Lin Fanqiu, chairman of DBC, added: "PHA is a world-class new material with great potential. Its natural properties are derived from nature and belong to nature. Our job is to discover and modify its capabilities. After this cooperation, DBC has developed two major water-based barrier coating technology solutions The project - focusing on plastic reduction and recyclable ecoten technology to achieve plastic-free, compostable and degradable bioten bio-based technology - has been successfully verified. The results of this work today can participate in global environmental governance, which makes our continued efforts extremely determined. "
Xu Xuanming, chairman of Bluepha, believes: "The success of this industrial-grade trial production is not only a technological breakthrough, but also a successful verification of a new industrial collaboration model. It proves that as long as the upstream and downstream enterprises in the industry chain have consistent goals and open collaboration, they can greatly shorten the innovation cycle and accelerate the pace of PHA technology from the laboratory to the market."
Yan Deping, Chairman of Hengxin Life, concluded: "Technological innovation and industry leadership have always been the principles for Hengxin people to move forward. The speed of this PHA water-based coating cooperation innovation is in line with the needs of high-quality competitive development in the global industry. Our strategic goal is to become an outstanding global enterprise, and this cooperation is our fulfillment of our commitment "The PHA coating produced in this industrial-grade trial production has reached the expected standards in key indicators such as waterproofing, oil-proofing, and heat-sealing properties. It can be biodegraded in natural environments such as recycling and home composting, and has no harmful substance residues. This allows us to be confident in providing services to more famous catering brands around the world."
Looking forward to the future, the four parties will continue to deepen strategic cooperation and accelerate the large-scale production and commercialization process of PHA coated paper. Our goal is to bring a series of high-performance green packaging products, including paper cups and lunch boxes, to the market as soon as possible to provide global consumers with safe, reliable and truly environmentally friendly choices. This will not only contribute a key force to the realization of China's "double carbon" goal, but also provide a powerful Chinese solution for global food and catering companies to cope with increasingly stringent ESG regulations and achieve sustainable development goals.
Introduction to the four-party cooperative enterprises (in order of upstream and downstream of the industrial chain)
About micro-building factory (PHABuider)
Bluepha is an innovative and influential technology company in the frontier field of biomanufacturing. With the core mission of "From Microbes to a Green Future", it develops and manufactures green polymer biomaterials PHA (polyhydroxyalkanoate) through the transformation and engineering application of halophilic microorganisms. Relying on the founding team's nearly 40 years of PHA research, Bluepha continues to explore more than 10 billion combinations of PHA families, develops modified applications that meet market demand, and works with industry chain partners to provide overall PHA industrialization solutions, and ultimately promotes the realization of the beautiful vision of "making PHA Life a lifestyle for thousands of households", landing PHAmily-PHAbrary-PHAdustry-PHA Life" innovation strategic path. In the future, Bluepha will continue to provide sustainable solutions based on green bio-based materials to global customers with its core positioning as "a global leader in synthetic biology and bio-manufacturing".
About DBC (DBC)
DBC is an innovative enterprise focusing on the application of new materials. It is committed to technology investment, R&D and manufacturing of environmentally friendly high-performance materials and green low-carbon industries. Since its establishment in Shanghai in 2010, it has rapidly grown into a representative of "Shanghai Innovative Enterprises" and "Specialized New Enterprises" by virtue of its continuous exploration of functional and environmentally friendly materials. Business coverage: R&D and application innovation of environmentally friendly high-performance materials, application scenarios in multiple fields such as new energy materials, environmentally friendly coatings, adhesives, additives, urban renewal and low-carbon buildings. DBC's two major environmentally friendly high-performance coating technology solutions, Ecoten™ barrier coating technology focuses on plastic reduction and recyclability, and Bioten™ PHA barrier coating technology focuses on compostability and degradability. It uses leading technical solutions to create more excellent products using the new energy material polyhydroxyalkanoate.
About Sinar Mas Group (APP)
The full name of Sinar Mas Group APP (China) is Sinar Mas Paper (China) Investment Co., Ltd. and its companies invested in mainland China. Since entering China in 1992, it has always adhered to the sustainable development strategy and strived to practice green recycling with the concept of "forest-pulp-paper integration" of sustainable papermaking. At present, APP (China) has forestry division, pulp division, large paper division group, household paper division, etc. With sales in China of approximately 92.6 billion yuan in 2023, total assets of approximately 242.7 billion yuan, and 26,000 full-time employees, it is a world-famous paper company.
About Hengxin Life (HXIN)
Hengxin Life (stock code: 301501), founded in 1997, is a high-tech enterprise engaged in the research, development, production and sales of paper and plastic tableware. The company has a rich product line and excellent product quality. It has become a supplier of paper and plastic tableware to many well-known domestic and foreign companies. The company has a dominant position in the field of biodegradable tableware, and its sales area covers Asia, North America, Oceania, Europe and other countries and regions. The company is the vice-president unit of the Degradable Plastics Professional Committee of the China Plastics Processing Industry Association. It has been rated as one of the top ten enterprises in China's light industrial plastics industry (degradable plastics) for six consecutive years. It has been rated as the "Specialized, Special and New" champion enterprise in Anhui Province, and the "Third Product" demonstration enterprise in the consumer goods industry in Anhui Province. It was selected into the fourth batch of specialized, special and new "Little Giant" enterprise lists; it won the China Light Industry Advanced Unit Award for Integration of Informatization and Industrialization, and the Bio-based and Biodegradable Materials Market Promotion Contribution Award. The company has multiple production bases, and its products cover catering industries such as fast food, takeout, and beverages, as well as various consumption scenarios such as large enterprises or institutions, civil aviation, and household daily consumption. It has the production capacity for the entire product process; the company's biodegradable tableware can be biodegraded and can help achieve the "double carbon" goal, which is in line with the national strategic direction.
