- Design/Redesign: Our products are crafted with circularity in mind, enhancing recyclability and resource efficiency while reducing environmental impact. We consider the end-of-life option for each final application accordingly.
- Production: Improve the processability of your products made with recycled or biobased content for seamless, efficient manufacturing.
- Use: Experience enhanced performance in end-use applications, ensuring that recycled and biobased materials match the needed quality, durability and maximum customer experience delight.
- Sorting: Our NIR-detectable colors and blacks allow products to be accurately detected and sorted by NIR technology, streamlining the recycling process at its most critical step.
- Recycling: We design our masterbatches and compounds to ensure they do not disrupt recycling processes - whether mechanical or organic. Our products comply with the existing certifications, requirements and recycling protocols for packaging applications.
Circularity and Innovation at Sukano
Acting Responsibly Today – for Tomorrow and Beyond
Our products are designed to enable circular applications, ensuring a positive impact for a sustainable future while meeting the requirements of our customers and the market. Through our innovations and partnerships, we aim to maximize and diversify the use of PET, recycled materials, specialty polymers and biopolymers; developing technical solutions that contribute to the circular economy.
Make a Sustainable Material Choice
Transition to recyclable materials and biopolymers with ease – and our product portfolio.
Maximizing rPET Content
From transparency and enhanced durability to mechanical integrity in your end applications: With a comprehensive range of functionalities for post-consumer resin (PCR) PET, we broaden the scope of applications for rPET from food grade packaging to durable goods and fiber applications. This way, you can increase recycled material content in your applications while maintaining the mechanical and optical properties as well as processability, comparable to those of virgin polymers.
Renowned as the most recycled polymer globally, PET embodies circularity by enabling plastic products to be recycled multiple times – for both bottle-to-bottle and tray-to-tray mechanical recycling. Thus, PET serves as an exemplary catalyst for the circular economy, perpetuating a closed-loop system that minimizes waste and environmental impact.
Recycled Materials
rABS, rPA and ocean-bound recycled materials
By addressing the challenges of mechanical recycling processes, our formulations for recycled materials restore and enhance the performance of recycled resins. Ensuring that they meet the demanding requirements of diverse applications, we enable recycled resins to become a viable alternative to virgin raw materials. Our innovations not only reduce dependency on virgin raw materials but also add value to your end applications by transforming waste into high-quality, reusable resources.
Biopolymers
PHA, PLA, PBS(A), and PEF
Designed with end-of-life in mind, our biopolymer solutions enable the use of biodegradable and biobased polymers without sacrificing functionality and enhancing the value of your applications. With advantages like optimized production yields and reduced cycle times, we ensure the seamless integration of biopolymers into your portfolio – supporting your transition to a biobased and circular carbon economy.
Design for Recycling and Circularity
We are at the forefront of the recycling journey and take proactive actions to create a sustainable future for the plastics industry by designing products for circularity and its most suitable end-of-life. Our products enable tray-to-tray and bottle-to-bottle mechanical recycling, organic recycling and composting for biodegradable, biobased certified polymers and applications.
We’re dedicated to improving the recyclability of plastics by simplifying packaging structures and promoting the transition from complex, multi-material formats to mono-material alternatives. With our holistic approach, we support a circular economy and closed-loop recycling, reducing dependency on virgin raw materials.
Products With a Positive Impact
We strive to build a product portfolio that helps us reach the goal of a more sustainable future. To do so, we constantly invent new solutions and optimize existing ones. Because we are sure: Plastics are part of the solution.
Our current portfolio already reflects this vision of ours:
- 78% of our products placed on the market support recycling
- 91% are used in food safety applications, offer accessibility to all, and minimize waste
- 8% go into sustainable Building and Construction applications
- 4% support affordable and essential medicine and vaccines for all
- 3% support decoupling from fossil fuel
Meet Our Innovations
Find your newest solution for your unmet needs. We offer innovative products that help to maximize the use of PET and Biopolymers and broaden their range of application.
Explore Our Recycling Portfolio
Get to know our portfolio to support and enhance recycling: