The latest sustainable development initiative by Imerys Performance Additives, the leading minerals supplier to the polymer industry, is the launch of a new formulation service. This is designed specifically for recycled plastic compounders with a view to working hand-in-hand to come up with tailored, “near virgin” solutions.
Recycling plastic is both an environmental necessity and an economic opportunity due to the problems inherent in the disposal of plastic waste and to the energy savings that can be made by using recycled resins.
Imerys Performance Additives is already successfully serving the recycling market for extrusion and injection applications with an innovative engineered mineral designed to compatibilise recycled blends of PE and PP. Compounded with ImerLink™, recycled polyolefins materials that would otherwise not be compatible can now be processed without any difficulty, used in higher value applications and meet key performance requirements.
Using Imerys Performance Additives’ in-house compounding and material test facilities, trial compound batches can be designed, manufactured and tested to ensure that they meet the requirements of our recycler customers who often lack this specialist equipment.
Extensive analyses are conducted to assess the quality of the customer’s existing input material, as well as on the final product. The end result is a finished compound ready for trialling by the final customer. An appropriate commercial package is then put in place and the recipe handed over to the recycler for commercial ramp up.
Imerys Performance Additives’ experienced team will assist at all stages of the process, whilst confidentiality is guaranteed by our legal team.
Imerys Performance Additives’ laboratory equipment includes:
• Twin screw extrusion lines
• Cast and blown film line
• Injection moulding press
• Dynamometer for flexural and tensile properties
• Izod, charpy and falling weight impact strength equipment
• Heat deflection temperature tester
• Coefficient of linear thermal expansion tester (CLTE)
• Scratch tester
• Microtome, SEM and IR analysis
• Optical microscopy
• Weatherometer
• Film press
• Permeameter – gas barrier measurement
• Spectro-colorimeter
• Internal mixer dispersion testing
• Long term thermal stability testing
About Imerys Group
Imerys is the world leader in adding value to minerals. With more than 250 sites in 50 countries worldwide, the Group achieved over €4 billion in sales in 2016. Combining high-quality mineral resources with advanced industrial know-how and technologies, Imerys designs, manufactures and sells mineral-based specialties that enable customers to improve product performance or process efficiency. Imerys’ specialties have applications in a wide range of industries, including construction, food, personal care, paper, paint, plastics, ceramics, telecommunications and energy.
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Contact: Laura Jones
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