NEWS
Milestone for Nexam Chemical
Nexam Chemical has announced that the largest volume customer within its Reactive Recycling business has started full commercial production and is purchas- ing the company’s addi- tives at full scale. The customer in question produces packaging based on mechanical recycling and uses Nexam Chemi- cal’s additives to enhance the recycled plastic’s properties. “This is a clear confirma-
tion that our Reactive Recycling technology works in real-world, large-scale applications,” said Henrik Bernquist, Business Manager. He said the company had a “strong sense of momentum” with custom- ers as its long-term efforts have started to materialise, especially in the area of recycling. �
www.nexamchemical.com
Forvia’s new bio-filled composites for cars
Materi’act, the sustainable materials subsidiary of Tier One automotive supplier Forvia, has unveiled NafiLe- an Vision bio-based com- posites for visible automo- tive injection moulded parts. NafiLean Vision materials
incorporate up to 25% biomass, with source materials selected for their high potential to seques- trate carbon emissions. The bio composite blends low carbon recycled plastics from post-consumer sources with renewable biomass, such as hemp, wood, reed, vine shoots, and even oyster shells, which help sequester CO2. The company said: “The
variety of biomass fillers enables the creation of a wide range of visible sustainable materials, with rich aspects that reflect their nature and origin in a wide variety of colors, grains, depth, and high perceived
NafiLean Vision bio-based composites are intended for visible automotive parts
quality textures.” Forvia said that NafiLean
Vision can be used in a single injection process, eliminating the need for post-processing, like deco painting or film, leading to further reductions in CO2 emissions and costs. NafiLean Vision can also be combined with specially developed coloring technologies to meet the advanced Colour Material
and Finish requirements of automotive OEMs. Forvia said the bio-based composites build on the success of Materi’act’s NafiLean-R, a composite made from recycled plastics reinforced with 20% hemp fibres. The NafiLean product family has enabled incorpo- ration of sustainable materials in over 10m vehicles globally, it said. �
www.forvia.com
PHA producer starts up in Netherlands IMAGE: PAQUES 6
Paques Biomaterials has opened a small PHA production facility in Emmen, Netherlands. Its Caleyda Extraction Facility uses a proprietary bacterial process. The company is following a two-step approach, said executives Joao Sousa and Richard Schrama at a K 2025 media briefing in Düsseldorf in June. Paques is actively seeking partners who will license the process technology and then intends to buy the output from these partners and purify it at its own plant. Its aim is to sell 50 licences by 2035. Board materials producer ESKA is one current partner in Europe which is planning to use process water as feestock at a plant with 1,500 tpa production capacity. Paques and another partner Looop have signed a deal to produce PHA from agri-food waste streams at a plant with a capacity of 3,000-6,000 tpa. The Paques plant in Emmen has started small-scale operations from 25 kg/ day but the company is expecting to scale up the plant. The final investment decision will be made after more offtake agreements have been signed. �
www.paquesbiomaterials.nl
COMPOUNDING WORLD | July 2025
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IMAGE: FORVIA
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