Plantic Technologies was incorporated in Victoria, Australia in 2001 for the purpose of acquiring, developing and commercialising intellectual property developed by an Australian Federal Government funded research group: the Cooperative Research Centre for International Food Manufacture and Packaging Science Plantic Technologies Limited is a world leading innovator in bioplastics, with a track record of science and industry awards, an international network of corporate customers and distributors, and a growing list of premium quality multinational research and development partners Unlike other bioplastics companies who utilise organic materials but whose polymers are still developed in refineries, Plantic's polymer as well as its raw material, are grown in a field