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FOOD ENGINEER
DUYGU YILMAZ HAD
RESEARCHED OLIVE SEED
FOR 2 YEARS, AND AS A
RESULT SHE PRODUCED
BIOPLASTIC FROM OLIVE
SEEDS.

BIOPLASTIC

IS PRODUCED FROM OLIVE SEED

Biolive Company’s Founder & CEO laboratory, which she built at home out The increasing effect of biofilms on food container, food packaging, textiles,
Duygu Yılmaz, chosen as Future of her shift. She quitted the job and antimicrobial and food shelf life has hygiene materials, organic toys and
Promising Woman Entrepreneur in took her 2 friends with her and founded attracted interest from manufacturers of baby pacifier,” said Duygu Yılmaz, also
2017 by Garanti Bank, KAGİDER and Biolive Company. refrigerators. they are producing olive seed extract
Ekonomist Magazine. Different products creams and tonics.
can be produced from the antibacterial But she had no fund and no one When an American company offered to
bioplastic packaging to extend the shelf believed that a 26 year old woman buy her inventions, Vestel Ventures has Duygu Yilmaz thinks that antimicrobial
life of the products. can be successful and can produce decided to support Biolive for R&D work. bioplastics disappearing in a very short
products, but she worked 16 hours a Currently, Duygu Yılmaz is working on time in nature will transform the world.
Biolive also received R&D investment day and she didn’t give up. Sometimes Vestel’s bioplastic production which can
from Vestel Venture. Now bioplastic she worked at the laboratory in her be used in refrigerator production in “Since my childhood I have never
experiments are being carried out for house and later she continued her Manisa facilities. dreamed a normal working life. I believe
Vestel refrigerators.Daughter of a family researches in R&D center, which she that people take on different roles in
of 2 children, Duygu Yılmaz’s researcher and her friends established. MY DREAM IS TO DO WORKS THAT coming to the world, my role is to do
spirit appeared in the secondary school. TOUCHES PEOPLE’S LIVES things that will touch the lives of people
She was 12 years old when she was SHE RESEARCHED OLIVE SEEDS and nature. My biggest dream is to be
making a washing machine for her “Apart from bioplastic refrigerator a pioneer in the bioplastics industry in
doll’s clothes from the fan motor. Her FOR 2 YEARS technology, we work on granules that Turkey.”
police father, who was a veteran at can be used in many fields such as
the age of 30, always said if she want She confirmed that substance in olive
to graduate she must be successful seeds can be taken in extract form
in her education because of financial while she was working on this matter
problems. she produced plastic from it. The
prototype of the product is finished
She inspired by her father who about 2 years. Thousands of trials
swallows olive seeds every morning had been made over the past 2 years
because he claims the olive seeds are but team worked day and night to
good for his stomach then she started constantly find the formula.
a research about olive seeds. But “We didn’t lose our hopes we have
before that she stopped her father to always worked with determination,”
swallowing olive seeds, if he want to said Duygu Yılmaz. First they made
swallow the seed it had to be in powder bioplastic films from olive seeds then
form.In that time she was working in those films turned into granules that
a honey company. After she began could be used in every area of plastic
to experiment with olive seeds in her and sectoral works started.