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A large proportion of today’s consumer market is made from plastics. In electronics market, plastics are used in casings, circuit boards, and data storage because of their durability, toughness, lightness, and mobility. However, there has been a surge of bioplastic products which are being introduced in the fast-moving consumer electronics sector such as touch screen computer casings, loud speakers, keyboard elements, mobile casings, vacuum cleaners, and a mouse for a laptop. SUPLA has developed optimized PLA compounds for the consumer electronics industry based on lactides from Corbion Purac. The launching application is the world’s first bioplastic touch screen computer that is developed in collaboration with a Taiwanese OEM/ODM, Kuender, as shown in Fig. 9.15. The high gloss housing of this computer is made from high heat PLA [41–44].