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are completing third-party certification deliver higher heat performance and
by TüV Austria, a leading European enhanced processability (lower cycle Trinseo Launches
certifying agency. times) for caps/closures, food service Sustainable Acrylics
Green Dot’s new compostable offering ware, and takeout containers.
also includes three new thermoforming In a breakthrough application
grades which provide a range of development effort, Green Dot worked
properties including clarity. Other with a customer to commercialize a living
grades provide higher heat performance hinge design for an injection molded
and greater flexibility for applications package. Physical and mechanical
rinseo has announced a new se-
such as food service packaging, takeout properties of typical bioplastic resins Tries of sustainable materials for
containers, deli packages, and straws. have not previously allowed the molding the European marketplace — Altug-
The thermoforming grades are also of a living hinge capable of hundreds las R-Life Acrylics. Altuglas R-Life is
completing final certification by TüV of flexural openings and closures an umbrella brand that will include
Austria. while delivering mechanical properties chemically and mechanically recy-

Two injection molding grades round necessary for a polypropylene-type cled, reused, and bio-based polym-
out the new compostable offering. They enclosure. ethyl methacrylate (PMMA) for
cast and extruded sheets, resins, and
Brita, Ineos Styrolution And Basf Collaboration To compounds.
Create Sustainable Water Filter Jugs The series launched with the follow-
ing:
RITA, INEOS Styrolution and the production of BRITA’s water filter Altuglas R-Life Extruded Acrylic
BBASF have announced that jugs where it is applied for jug, funnel Sheets, with a minimum of 75% me-
BRITA has selected a range of INEOS and lid parts. By using the new materials, chanically recycled, reused PMMA
Styrolution’s sustainable Terluran ECO, BRITA can significantly lower the carbon scrap material;
Styrolution PS ECO and NAS ECO footprint without changes of moulding Altuglas R-Life Cast Acrylic Sheets,
materials as materials of choice for its parameters and material performance. with a minimum 75% chemically re-
portfolio of water filter jugs. The new ECO materials do not cause cycled PMMA cast sheet;
The materials include the recently any interference in BRITA’s production Altuglas R-Life Acrylic Resins, with
introduced NAS ECO, a styrene methyl as it is indeed a true plug-in solution that both 50% and 80% chemically recy-
methacrylate (SMMA) material – the does not require an adaption to BRITA’s cled monomer from PMMA waste.
result of a co-operation between INEOS production processes. The materials can be used in a range
Styrolution and BASF. It is built on Meike Rapp, Sustainability Manager of application areas including retail,
lighting, interior architecture, furni-
BASF’s production of styrene monomer for the BRITA Group, said: “[W]e are ture and design, building and con-
derived from renewable feedstock based happy that the new ECO materials struction, and transportation.
on the mass balance approach. INEOS for our jugs help us achieve one of our “With Altuglas R-Life we look at
Styrolution uses the material as feedstock key sustainability goals – to reduce our sustainability broadly — as any
in its production of new sustainable dependence on fossil-based plastics. number of solutions that might en-
styrenics solutions. They also contribute to further decrease able a customer to achieve positive

BRITA is among the first customers to the carbon footprint of some of our sustainability outcomes,” said Aldo
benefit from INEOS Styrolution’s NAS key products and help us achieve our Zanetti, Global Sustainability Man-
ECO solution. The material is used for strategic goal of shaping sustainable ager, Engineered Materials.

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