Freudenberg Touts Recycled-Content Successes

German company’s North American operations using large volumes of plastic scrap.

Freudenberg North America Ltd. Partnership, the North American holding company for Freudenberg & Co. of Weinheim, Germany, says its family of companies is consuming a growing amount of plastic scrap to make a wide range of products.

In a news release, Freudenberg states, “Together, these companies provide innovative products and solutions to customers in industries ranging from automotive, aerospace and medical to chemical, oil and gas and construction.”

Among Freudenberg U.S. units using plastic scrap in their manufacturing processes are:

 

  •  Freudenberg Nonwovens, Durham, N.C., using “millions of pounds of 100 percent post-consumer and post-industrial recycled plastic per year to make environmentally sustainable materials for building and construction substrates, landscaping and weed-block materials, residential and commercial wallpaper, carpet backings, filtration devices and automotive floor mats and carpeting.”

 

  • Freudenberg Vitech, producing non-woven automotive fabric from 100 percent post-consumer recycled material. It manufactures fabric at its Hopkinsville, Ky., facility for automotive headliners, sun visors, seat backs and packaging trays using fabric made from 100 percent post-consumer PET bottle scrap.

 

  • Freudenberg Household Products, based in Aurora, Ill., which manufactures household and institutional cleaning products, including recycled-content broom fibers.

 

  • Freudenberg Texbond, based in Macon, Ga., which recycles more than 1 million plastic bottles per day to produce non-woven roofing membrane and building materials.

 

  • Freudenberg Filtration Technologies, which uses 100 percent post-consumer recycled plastic to create the material used in its commercial and industrial air and liquid filtration systems.


Freudenberg North America, based in Plymouth, Mich., says its “innovations keep more than 377 million plastic drink bottles out of landfills annually and have led to new contracts and increased business, allowing Freudenberg’s non-wovens, Vitech, Texbond, Filtration and Household Product companies to add jobs. “

“As customers demand more and more green products, Freudenberg is driving the innovative development and production of things people and businesses use every day – all made from recycled plastic," says Leesa Smith, president of Freudenberg North America Ltd. Partnership and a member of the company’s global executive team.

“Our green practices are reflected in the buildings we work in, our daily actions and in the way we manufacture products,” says Smith. “This has enabled us to expand our work force in key areas, and we expect the uptick in business to continue.

 

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