Recycled Resins
Contribute to a circular economy in the plastics industry by replacing virgin material with recycled content.
Go Beyond Recycling
Incorporating recycled plastics in your applications brings numerous benefits to the table: You can conserve energy and reduce greenhouse gas emissions compared to using virgin material. Additionally, you keep plastic waste from landfills and oceans, preserving natural habitats.
Our products optimize post-consumer and post-industrial recycled resins (PCR and PIR) to successfully replace virgin materials. By counteracting degradation from recycling, they make PCR suitable for a wide range of applications.
Where Our Products Make an Impact
- rABS – Recycled Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene
- rPA – Recycled Polyamide (Nylon)
- rPP – Recycled Polypropylene
- rPE – Recycled Polyethylene
- OBP - Ocean-bound Plastics
Developments in the Market
Meeting and Exceeding Mandatory Recycling Targets
The EU's recycling and recycled content targets are accelerating the adoption of recycled materials across various industries. While the automotive sector already has defined targets, other industries and applications are set to follow suit. We are here to help you meet or even exceed these European recycling content targets ahead of enforcement. With our expertise and masterbatch solutions, we support your transition from virgin to recycled materials, ensuring you stay ahead of regulatory requirements and contribute to a more sustainable future.
Enable Higher Recycled Content
Unlock the potential of recycled plastics with our innovative masterbatches and compounds. Our Processing Aids and Physical Property Modifiers enable higher recycled content without the loss of productivity or end application properties. Replacing virgin resins with recycled material diverts waste from the natural environment, reducing the product’s environmental impact and supporting a circular economy. Choose our products to create a greener future while maintaining the quality and performance of your materials.
Innovation and Collaboration in Recycled Resins
Reducing Product Carbon Footprint
Are you interested in incorporating recycled materials into your design? Share your vision with us, and we will provide you with tailored technical suggestions to help you reformulate your product, reducing its environmental impact right from the design phase.
Our readily available in-house laboratories allow for pretesting and fact-based decision-making. Transitioning from a linear economy toward circularity comes with challenges, but we are equipped with expertise and experience to overcome them.
Customizing Ocean-Bound Plastic Material
80% of the plastics in the ocean originate from land-based activities. Due to limited resources for trash disposal, improper collection, littering, or heavy rains, plastic can be carried into streams and rivers, eventually reaching the ocean. Since retrieving plastic from the ocean is extremely challenging, it is more effective to prevent plastic waste from entering open waters in the first place.
To address this, plastic waste likely to end up in the ocean is collected from coastlines, beaches and riverbanks to be recycled. The collected material is known as ocean-bound plastic.
By replacing virgin plastic with ocean-bound plastic, you reduce the carbon footprint of your products, give plastic waste a second life, and protect the ocean, local communities, and our planet. We offer customized color and functional masterbatches tailored to your needs and the technical requirements of your resin and end application, enabling you to successfully introduce ocean-bound plastic into your portfolio. Our masterbatches can be based on your specific ocean-bound carrier to ensure the best results and compatibility.
Our Regulatory Expertise
The landscape of industrial regulations is complex and varies internationally. With Sukano, you gain access to a team specialized on regulatory affairs and trained to navigate through global regulations. Thus, you can be sure your final product fulfills all applicable compliance requirements.
Our experts provide professional guidance and advice to keep you ahead of new regulations and ensure your products remain relevant and competitive in the market. In addition, we meticulously assess our formulations against declarable or restricted substances lists, safeguarding your business from potential industrial regulatory pitfalls.
Discover Our Recycled Resins Portfolio
Slip, Antiblock & Release Modification for Recycled Resins
Improve the processing efficiency of recycled materials in extrusion blow molding and injection molding. Our Mold Release masterbatches prevent parts from sticking to the mold. This ensures smooth demolding and reduced friction on the mold. As a result, cycle times as well as the quality of the final product can be improved.
Industry-Specific Expertise
Recycled Resins in Building and Construction
The building and construction industry is increasingly adopting recycled resins for different construction auxiliary applications, including pipe covers. By utilizing recycled resins, the industry can reduce its carbon footprint. Our color and functional masterbatches enable the use of recycled resins while maintaining high performance and visual appeal of construction applications.
Recycled Resins in Consumer Durables
Recycled materials are used in many non-food contact consumer goods, such as housings for coffee machines, vacuum cleaners, and other household appliances. By partially replacing virgin materials, these recycled components help reduce the product's carbon footprint.
Recycled Resins in Fibers
Specialty polyesters are a good material choice for sterile pharmaceutical packaging, medical equipment and disposable medical devices, offering both performance and aesthetics. PBT and PC are common materials due to their proven performance and safe use in medical applications. For example, they are used in high-resistant and durable casings for EpiPens.
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