Oct 10, 2022 | Home Page News, Main News, The Blog
Lou and Jane Hsu have sold their Unicorn Import & MFG Corp. assets to the newly formed Texas company, Unicorn Bags, LLC. Lou will stay on with the new company for the next year and continue to support the daily Technical, Product Development, and Research efforts as well as help in all aspects of the ownership transition. Jane has moved . . .
May 19, 2022 | Home Page News, The Blog
We certify that our bags use no recycled materials, No Bisphenol A (BPA), or Polylactic Acid (PLA) . We certify that we use no coating of any sort, unless such are requested by the customer, we certify that we do not use ink, no pigments, no epoxy, no printing unless clients request them.
Although our bags are not FDA certified, but we use only FDA approved resins for food contact, and our polypropylene resin is 100 percent virgin . . .
Apr 26, 2021 | Home Page News, Processes, The Blog
When sterilizing your substrate, longer and hotter is NOT better! A temperature of 121°C or 250°F will do the job. Just be sure the complete mass of substrate reaches that temperature for 30 minutes. The higher the temperature, the more the substrate will...
Jun 15, 2019 | Home Page News, The Blog
In the late 1990s, mushroom growing bags were costing 35 U.S. cents per bag, so I started to develop a cheaper bag. Eventually it became our 14A. Unicorn 14A single handedly nursed the infant U.S. exotic mushroom industry. We tested our products by ourselves, first,...
May 30, 2019 | Bag Products, Home Page News, The Blog
As my previous post explained, our degradable bags (contact us to order them) use an additive that allows them to degrade by breaking down their chemical structure. Oxidation through heat or ultraviolet light leads to this degradation, rather than bacteria and fungi...
Apr 16, 2019 | Bag Products, Home Page News, The Blog
There has been some additional interest in degradeable bags and some questions. Major questions concern how these bags degrade and the ultimate products left after degradation. I commissioned Willow Ridge Plastics to analyze the materials we use in our...
