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Kawata Mfg. is using microcellular foaming and inactive expanding agents like carbon dioxide and nitrogen to foam polylactic acid resin to an expansion factor of 40. The feat is unprecedented, because the resin has long been considered too rigid for high degrees of expansion. Kawata has cooperated with resin manufacturers to develop a type of the resin especially suited to foaming. With this …