Around the world – MAISTIC

Four Fairs with Maistic Plastic Free Options

Heidi von Bülow — Tue, 12 Oct 2021 14:45:34 +0000

Finally getting out – meeting people and presenting products and options.

Wow, we look forward to it

We’re going all in – visiting FOUR fairs the upcoming months meaning you can meet us i Paris, in Amsterdam two times and in Chicago, US in January.

Book a meeting, ask for access badge to visit us – or simply stop by our stands.

We will be green, visible and Your Expert in Plastic Free in all four fairs – and bring plastic free and compostable retail products and packaging options – and as distributor we will bring three different Less Plastic brands for distribution in lots of countries (read more about that soon .

Find us here:

NatExpo – Paris, October 24-26th. Visit us at the international and French trade show for organic products at Paris Nord Villepinte. Find us in Hall 6, stand C13.
FreeFrom – Amsterdam November 23-24th. Along with other Danish companies we will be showing at the Danish Pavillion in RAI, Stand D81.
PLMA’s 2021 “World of Private Label” – Amsterdam December 14-15th. With 18m2 stand we look forward to meet you in the RAI Exhibition Centre for the International Trade Show for private label, packaging and retail products. Maistic will be right in the middle of Hall 8, stand N-3317 – you can’t miss us.
PLMA’s Annual Private Label Trade Show – Chicago January 30 – February 1, 2022. Meet us in the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Chicago – we look forward to our first show in the US.

Book us for meetings today – through the contact form, directly for sales@maistic.com our to regular emails, if we already know one another:

Malene Molin Harrsen, Head of Sales

Brian Bouet Smith, CEO, Maistic

Deniz Yasar, KAM East/Southern Europe and Middle East

Isabelle Delrue Lingelbach (France, Belgium, Switzerland, Canada)

Visit Maistic at the PLMA 2021 – USA

maisticdk — Wed, 18 Aug 2021 11:59:26 +0000

Now we invite companies and buyers from around the world to join us at this years:

US Private Label Week (PLMA) February 1-4 2021.

Yes, it’s digital only due to the covid-19.

We would love to present you to our many Plastic Free NEWS for supermarkets, retailers and distributors – not to forget companies looking for plastic free packaging and not for resale goods.

Maistic Plastic Free Group is Your Expert in Plastic Free & Compostable.

Our branded retail products are sold in supermarkets and stores in 30 countries – our private label in even more.

Find our latest Options Catalogue here for inspiration

Find our Compostable Bags Catalogue here

Find Us in France & Spain

maisticdk — Tue, 06 Nov 2018 13:17:34 +0000

Two very experienced agents has joined us here at Maistic.

This means we are now represented in France and Spain too towards retail chains, distributors and other large clients interested in plastic free and compostable products, bags, cutlery as Maistic branded products or private label productions.

In France you’ll meet Isabelle Delrue Lingelbach:

Contact her at
Email isabelle.isalin(a)wanadoo.fr
Tel : +33 1 34 62 01 12
Mobile : +33 6 72 11 13 74

And in Spain you’ll meet Eduardo López-Agós:
Email elag(a)tranexco.eu
Phone: +34 914 363 532
Mobile: +34 609 107 512

As always…

If you have any questions related to Maistic, what we do already and ideas for what we might be able to do for you, please contact us – either in your country directly or to head office in Denmark at salg@maistic.com

Maistic – now in Norway

maisticdk — Mon, 05 Mar 2018 13:20:07 +0000

One of Norways largest suppliers of organic products for the eco markets such as shops, webshops, bakeries, food producers and many more, now represent Maistic Bio Group and our plastic free and/or compostable products.
The Maistic retail products are supplied to all these clients, including Norganic-owned webshop, Økoland.no

Contact Norganic directly with questions regarding Maistic products. For special requirements, tender etc, please contact Maistic Head Office at salg@maistic.com

Maistic now Northern Europe sales office for leading bioplastic developer

maisticdk — Wed, 30 Aug 2017 08:50:48 +0000

MAISTIC Bio Group – the only producer and full service supplier in the Nordics being fully focused on plastic free and certified compostable products for retail, HORECA and municipal – now expands co-op with Torise Biomaterials.
MAISTIC now represents Torise Biomaterial in Northern Europe, including both finished goods and compostable resins, including Torise PLA.

Bioplastics MAGAZINE wrote about the Co-op in the latest issue – 04/2017:
Read the full article here (not available online without login):– – – – –

New cooperation in Northern Europe

Danish Maistic Bio Group expands corporation with bioplastic Chinese developer Torise Biomaterials

A strong focus on well-priced consumer products, a clear non-plastic company strategy and communication and a corporation with well known organizations with concerns on environmental issues has in just a few years made Maistic® a talk of the town brand.

Last spring the first Maistic® OK Compost Home certified shopping bags were introduced in the first 10 supermarkets in Denmark and Greenland. Two more handfuls receive bags in the next few weeks. All of the supermarkets are members of the two large Nordic supermarket groups, Coop and Dagrofa. Compostable bags weren’t in Danish supermarkets before. But endusers demanded them and love the stores for having introduced them.

Brand strategy towards endusers is a rarity in the bioplastics world. But endusers have shown to be ready and eager to make the change. Endusers gives valuable insight and are important influencers, founder and CEO of Helsingør, Denmark based Maistic Bio Group, Brian Bouet Smith, explains:

“We had an online survey made, showing approx. 80% prefer compostable bags, even at a higher price. Not only shopping bags, but for food packaging even more. Also, if you take a look through Maistic tagged Facebook news from shops and supermarkets introducing a new product from us, these news are very often liked and shared much more than everything else on the shop profile. But industry, retail brands and supermarket groups are still reluctant to take a stand on plastic and alternatives, missing out on the CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) value awaiting”.

To follow up on growing demands, Maistic Bio Group now officially joins forces with bioplastic developer Torise Biomaterials (Jiangsu, China) in the Northern Europe area. Aim is to meet both growing interest on compostable bag and nonvowen products, but also to find partners for resins and bag production nearby.

Maistic Bio Group has specialized in certified compostables. Not only compostable bioplastics, but also other EN 13432 certified compostable materials (Vincotte or Seedling). Last year, Maistic Bio Group succeeded in introducing four compostable or microplastic free product lines for fixed assortment in large supermarket chains, including home compostable waste, food and freezer safe bags and a line of disposable dishware.

As a second company ‘pillar’ is non-plastic and fully biobased alternatives to typical plastic products with high risk of polluting microplastic, so far plastic free cleaning cloths and a line of fully biobased cleaning sponges.

Maistic is well represented in all three Danish speaking countries. Sales in Norway is fast growing through both large distributor Norganic and towards large clients through Maistic sales representative. Sweden and Germany are next.

Behind Maistic Bio Group non-plastic and compostable strategy is a wide network of close partners, developers and factories. One of these, the PLA and compostable resin developer and factory, Torise Biomaterials, is now joining up with Maistic Bio Group in Northern Europe, making Maistic the sales office of both products and resin in the area.

“We believe that under the new close cooperation between Torise and Maistic, the development process on compostable packaging materials and solutions will grow faster in the future,” says Laurance Ruan, founder and CEO of Torise Biomaterials.

As a leading manufacturer in the Chinese biodegradable compostable industry, Torise Biomaterials not only produces finished biodegradable products, but also produces raw materials. Being able to handle the costs very well, competitive prices make Torise Biomaterials develop rapidly. In the meantime, Maistic Bio Group handles sales as Torise continues to enhance quality and development of new materials in its own Research Institute.

As BSCI and ISO certified, Torise is committed to continued innovation. The company is ready for the 2018 demand under the EN 16640 standard for at least 40% biobased carbon biodegradable polymer. Torise is also developing new application fields for biodegradable fibers, injection moulded products etc.

The new close Maistic-Torise corporation is the first in the Maistic strategy to expand further on compostable and plastic free packaging materials and solutions.

For more information, please contact MAISTIC Bio Group CEO, Brian Bouet Smith // bs@maistic.com // +45 5385 8600

Hvad ved vi om mikroplast i mennesker?

maisticdk — Thu, 23 Feb 2017 09:58:05 +0000

Dette er første artikel i serien LESS PLASTIC. Her sætter vi løbende fokus på plastproblematikken, løsninger og nyt fra hele verden – alt sammen med udgangspunkt i ønsket om LESS PLASTIC IN THIS WORLD.

Vi ved efterhånden en del om plastforureningen og mikroplastens effekt på havdyr. Men hvad med mikroplast i mennesker? Det er videnskaben først nu begyndt at sætte fokus på. Og desværre er de første undersøgelser ikke rar læsning.

Naturen, dyrene og havmiljøet er ved at drukne i plastik. Hvert minut tilføres verdenshavene plastik, der svarer til en fyldt skraldebil. Vi siger det lige igen. Hvert minut. Alt det plastik truer også menneskets sundhed.

I havet defragmenterer de store stykker plastikaffald til mindre og mindre stykker. Plastikken forsvinder ikke. Den bliver bare usynlig for det blotte øje. Den bliver med andre ord til mikroplast – bittesmå stykker plastik under 2 mm. Dertil kommer det mikroplast, der er produceret i mikrostørrelse – fx plastik i tekstiler, skrubbecremer, rengøringsartikler mm. Samt mikroplast, der slides småt – fx er bildæk og skosåler store mikroplast-forurenere.

Når dyrene æder mikroplast, og vi spiser dyrene, så ender mikroplasten i os selv.

Det viser helt nye forskningsresultater fra Universitet i Gent i Belgien.

Spiser du regelmæssigt fisk og skaldyr, indtager du årligt op mod 11.000 mikroskopiske plaststykker, som havdyrene har spist før dig.

Selv om mere end 90 pct. af mikroplasten ifølge de belgiske forskere løber direkte igennem os, så bliver noget af den optaget i vores system. Dr. Colin Janssen fra universitet i Gent i Belgien opsummerer bekymringerne for mikroplast i kroppen således:

“Vi har slået fast, at mikroplasten kommer ind i vores krop og kan blive der i længere tid. Nu skal vi finde ud af, hvad der sker med den. Ender den indkapslet og glemt i kroppen – eller skaber den betændelse og andre skader? Om plastikken overfører sine giftige stoffer til os, eller der sker andre ting, det ved vi faktisk ikke. Men det skal vi have fundet ud af,” siger han til Sky News.

Meget af forskningen er koncentreret om havmiljøet og havdyrene. Men der er også mikroplast i madvarer fra landjorden. Fx i honning, øl og hvad på flaske, hvilket DR-programmet Madmagasinet sidste år satte fokus på.

Mikroplast tiltrækker miljøgifte

Mikroplasten lander altså i dyrene, i vores mad og i os mennesker. Og hvad sker der så?

Forskere fra Tokyo Universitet har påvist, at når mikroplasten svømmer rundt i naturen, tiltrækker den farlige stoffer, der ’sætter sig’ på mikroplasten. Det kan være farlige kemikalier og kræftfremkaldende stoffer som pesticider, nonyphenoler og PCB (polyklorerede bifenyler), som mikroplasten så pænt leverer videre til dyrene og os mennesker, når plastikken ender i vores mave.

Frygten blandt forskerne er, at de skadelige stoffer, som plastikken har samlet op på sin vej, vil blive efterladt i os – selv om plaststykket passerer gennem vores system.

Det er også påvist, at mikroplast påvirker skaldyr og fisks spisevaner og energiniveau negativt – her i et studie publiceret i magasinet Nature. Mikroplasten fylder op i dyrenes system, så der ikke er plads til næring og dyrene dør derfor langsomt af sult. Derudover kommer effekt af de hormonforstyrrende stoffer i og på plastikken, som lader til at påvirke deres forplantningsevne.

Om den samme hormonforstyrrende effekt kan gælde mennesker, ved man endnu ikke.

En anden frygt blandt forskerne er, at vi mennesker indånder mikroplast – eksempelvis mikroplasten fra bildæk, som er en af de største mikroplastforurenere.

Plastforurening kommer altså ikke kun fra havet. Ofte ser vi eksempler på hvaler og andre store havdyr, der driver i land og dør, fordi deres system er stoppet til af plastic.
Hvad få måske tænker på eller ser på sociale medier, er at køer, kameler og andre større dyr samt mange havfugle også dør af plastik i maven.

Hos MAISTIC prøver vi at minde folk om, at plastforureningen jo oftest starter på land – se fx her, hvad en fisker fangede i Øresund.

Derfor er det her på land, vi skal starte med at stoppe plastforureningen.

Hvad er mikroplast?

Mikroplast er defineret som partikler af plastik mindre end 2 mm. Mikroplast er enten fabriksfremstillet som bittesmå plastikstykker, der bruges i cremer, shampoo og andre produkter, ikke mindst tekstiler. Mikroplast er også resultatet af større stykker plastik, der er endt i naturen, hvor vejr, vind og ultraviolet stråling slider på plastikken, så den defragmenterer til mindre og mindre stykker – til sidst mikroplast så småt, at dyrene uforvarende spiser det.

Mikroplastens negative påvirkning af mennesker og natur er den vigtigste grund til, at MAISTIC på alle planer arbejder for LESS PLASTIC IN THIS WORLD.