Agricultural Nonwoven Compound (PBAT)

About This Product

Agricultural Nonwoven Compound is a PBAT pellet compound for the production of nonwoven crop covers and weed control fabric. PBAT is an aliphatic-aromatic copolyester whose ester links are open to hydrolysis and to the enzymes present in soil, which is what makes a fabric built from it soil biodegradable rather than merely breakable into smaller pieces. Agricultural fleece and weed matting are laid across large areas and are difficult to recover intact at the end of a season, because the fabric is thin, pinned down and torn by the time the crop comes off, and what is lifted comes up full of soil and plant debris. A biodegradable fabric can be tilled in instead. That makes service life the controlling property rather than a footnote, since the cover has to hold its strength through the growing period and then go, and the two requirements pull against each other. This grade is formulated for agricultural nonwoven production, with the UV and service-life behaviour matched to the growing period the cover is intended for. Supplied as a raw material for processing on the buyer's own line. We do not produce finished articles. It is used in crop covers and fleece, in weed control fabric and across horticulture. Bio Green Chem supplies Agricultural Nonwoven Compound to specification on basis weight, UV behaviour and the service life the cover has to hold through the growing season.