Lactips has designed a formulation based on CareTips® and bio-polyesters to manufacture golf tees. The formulation is both bio-based and biodegradable.
The product benefits include:
- Sustainable impact: The componants used in the formulation are biobased and biodegradable in soil.
- Reusable: Resists to a minimum of 10 impacts with a driver (energy level equal to 160km/h: average speed when impacting), bending resistance.
- Highly resistant: tested over 16 players with all kind of clubs (drivers, irons & woods).
- All weather conditions: Suitable for all kind of courses under all weather conditions (tee’s ground penetration).
- Customizable: Natural tints, printing, tampography, laser engraving
The ideal solution for products that have a major risk of being lost in the environment.
About Lactips
Lactips is a French company founded in 2014. Based in Saint-Paul-en-Jarez (in France’s Loire department), the company was founded by Marie-Hélène Gramatikoff, a plastics engineer and company strategy specialist, and Frédéric Prochazka, PhD, a professor at the Université de Saint-Etienne.
Lactips focuses on manufacturers aiming to develop new products or take on new markets using a clean, biodegradable plastic that’s friendly to consumers and the environment.
There are numerous possible industrial applications since the Lactips technology is: water-soluble, biodegradable, mass-producible, print-ready, and edible, and also has strong barrier properties (to oxygen, fats, and mineral oils).
If you would like to know more about using Lactips for your application, please contact the team at Plastribution who will be happy to support.
