INNOVATION | STYRENIC PLASTICS
Right: ABS Eco grades from Ineos Styrolu- tion, made from post-consumer recyclate, are used by Chinese appliance manufacturer Midea for use in its range of sustainable household appliances
maximize the collection and recycling of materials in end-of-life home appliances as a way to imple- ment its extended producer responsibility system. Ineos Styrolution teamed up with GER in 2021 in a collaboration to produce sustainable Terluran Eco GP-22 grades at commercial scale for the Chinese market. The two rABS grades (Terluran Eco GP-22 MR50 and MR70) contain 50% and 70% of recycled post-consumer waste electrical and electronic equipment respectively, are available in standard black, and have equivalent properties to Ineos Styrolution’s virgin general-purpose ABS GP-22 formulation, says the company. Ineos Styrolution integrated GER’s post-consum-
Below: Model of Indaver’s planned
depolymerisa- tion facility, to be located in the Port of Antwerp, Belgium
er recycled electrical and electronic waste into the state-of-the-art recycling ABS formulations, for use in a wide range of industries including household, electronics, packaging, toys, sports, and leisure. The collaboration enables shorter lead times and improves supply stability for Ineos Styrolution’s products and services in China. Innotech, the research and development technology centre for packaging solutions from the company Grupo Lantero announced that trials with a full range of rigid packaging yogurt cup products, made with Ineos Styrolution’s 100% post-consumer recycled polystyrene material have been successfully completed, with all European and American dairy formats produced and tested to food contact standards. Ineos Styrolution’s PS Eco 440FC MR100 grade,
made from recycled household food packaging waste, can be used as a drop-in replacement to virgin PS, where it is the material of choice for the dairy form-fill-seal market, according to Gonzalo Sanchez, head of recycling with Coexpan, Grupo Lantero’s rigid packaging division. “It is a massive achievement to be able to confirm the success of this exercise. We now have the proof that mechani-
cally recycled polystyrene offers a solution for [customers’] food contact applications. This will allow customers to concentrate on their core business rather than looking for alternative materials requiring changes to existing processes and investments into new equipment.”
Depolymerisation Ineos Styrolution in 2022 signed an offtake agree- ment with Belgian waste management specialist Indaver that will give the company access to styrene monomer that Indaver produces from post-consumer waste at its planned depolymerisa- tion plant. Indaver has started building a new facility for converting difficult to recycle plastics into basic chemicals using a proprietary recycling technology it has been testing since 2017. The materials that are released in this way are
basic raw materials with specifications that are equal to the materials extracted from fossil streams. The high-quality styrene monomer will allow Ineos Styrolution to replace fossil feedstock while producing PS resins that have a lower CO2
than a virgin material but with identical properties. The material can be used in food-contact packag- ing as it meets stringent food grade specifications. Indaver’s new facility, located in the Port of
Antwerp, Belgium, will treat plastics streams that are not eligible for other types of high-quality mechani- cal recycling. This primarily concerns polystyrene or polyolefin fractions with household or industrial origins, such as household packaging waste. The new Plastics2Chemicals facility will recycle approximately 65,000 tpa of waste plastics when
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