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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHeinz, Ford Team Up To Turn Tomato Skins Into Auto Parts
http://www.manufacturing.net/news/2014/06/heinz-ford-team-up-to-turn-tomato-skins-into-auto-parts?et_cid=3987655&et_rid=54679148&location=topFord Motor Co. and the H.J. Heinz Co., the Pittsburgh-based ketchup maker are teaming up on research to turn tomato skins into auto parts.
According to a joint news release, scientists at both companies believe they can use tomato fibers to manufacture composite materials used for wiring brackets, or storage bins in cars instead of petroleum-based plastics.
Ford says it began working with Heinz, The Coca-Cola Company, Nike Inc. and Procter & Gamble to speed up attempts to create a "a 100 percent plant-based plastic to be used to make everything from fabric to packaging."
Meanwhile, Heinz was looking to recycle the leftover parts of the two million tons of tomatoes Heinz uses to make ketchup each year.
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Heinz, Ford Team Up To Turn Tomato Skins Into Auto Parts (Original Post)
eridani
Jun 2014
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pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)1. I'll await their results with A n t i c i p a t i o n
corkhead
(6,119 posts)3. Ford: the slowest auto in the west, east, north, and south
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Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)2. Fantastic news if they can do it.
As petroleum gets more and more pricey (and we hit and pass peak oil) we're desperately going to need a replacement for many sorts of oil-based plastics.
betsuni
(25,376 posts)5. The other car companies better hurry and catch up with this new technology
eridani
(51,907 posts)8. If you intended to set off a pun war, you should have said
--ketchup with this new technology.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)6. Dan Quayle says they're way off base
They should have gone with potatoe.
WhiteTara
(29,692 posts)7. Woo Hoo
When money gets involved, inventiveness is rewarded.