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Research & Development

At World Centric, our R&D division develops sustainable packaging solutions that meet real-world performance requirements while reducing environmental impact. Our work with biobased and compostable formulations across agricultural waste, naturally occurring polysaccharides, proteins, lipids, and other plant-based materials. Our team’s research materials are often dismissed as unsuitable for packaging performance expectations due to limited strength or poor resistance to water and grease. Through targeted chemistry, physical treatments, and process engineering, we overcome these inherent limitations.

Our R&D efforts currently focus on:

  • Agricultural waste food service packaging
  • Alternatives to biopolymer and plastic polymers
  • Polysaccharide based barrier coatings

World Centric Innovation

Leaf Plus®

For years, oil and grease resistance in fiber tableware meant PFAS, fluorinated chemicals with serious environmental and health consequences. The foodservice industry accepted this as an unavoidable tradeoff. Leaf Plus® is World Centric’s answer to that assumption. This patented, plant-based formula is the first all-natural alternative to deliver high-temperature performance up to 190°F, with zero fluorinated chemicals and no compromise on function. It represents a genuine breakthrough, not an incremental improvement, but a reinvention of what fiber tableware can be.

Third-party certified by TUV Austria for both home and industrial composting and meeting ASTM compostability standards, Leaf Plus® works across hot and cold foodservice applications. Natural ingredients. Real performance. Certified compostable. The industry has been waiting for this solution, and World Centric built it.

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NoTree® Paper Cutlery

Plastic cutlery has one job, and it comes at a steep cost to the planet. For an industry looking to move away from single-use plastic, the alternatives have too often meant compromising on durability, feel, or function. NoTree® paper cutlery closes that gap. Made from FSC® certified bamboo paper sourced from responsibly managed forests, each fork, knife, spoon, and spork is coated for heat and oil resistance, sturdy enough for any food application, and smooth enough that you taste the meal, not the utensil. It’s World Centric expanding the frontier of what sustainable foodservice looks like in practice.

As composting infrastructure expands across the U.S., NoTree® is ready to meet it, certified to ASTM D6400/D6868 standards for industrial composting and made entirely from renewable, non-petroleum materials. The sustainable choice, finally as easy as grabbing a fork.

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