Perstorp Launches Innovation Challenge to help shape the future with Capa™ Thermoplastics. (Copyright: Shutterstock)

Perstorp, a world leader in specialty chemicals, wants your help in identifying and solving a future challenge in this ever-changing world. In celebration of the 40th anniversary of its versatile Capa™ caprolactone thermoplastic materials, the Company has launched a competition on September 1, 2015.

Perstorp says its via this crowdsourcing initiative is to engage with visionary and technically minded people from all over the world - university students and professionals alike - to scan the horizon for potential challenges, and come up with creative ideas to address them.

"We may sometimes forget, but there is a lot of brainpower available outside of Perstorp. I am sure that we will get ideas that we had never thought of", says Eric Appelman, Vice President Innovations at Perstorp. "We're excited that this forward-looking, approach will allow us to harness fresh, new ideas by engaging directly with the market as we aim to leverage the use of advanced biodegradable thermoplastics as a sustainable problem-solving material. The competition is directly linked to our core values: Focused Innovation, Responsibility and Reliability".

Here is the premise for the competition: identify a challenge you think could arise in the next 40 years and build a solution using Capa™ Thermoplastics technology. Participants can enter individually or in teams of two.

Perstorp's Capa™ caprolactone thermoplastics are durable, strong, stiff, biodegradable, moldable at 60°C, and can be reheated and reshaped over and over again. They offer wear resistance, chemical resistance, UV resistance, gloss, adhesion, low-temperature flexibility, and many other properties. Learn more here.

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