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Polykemi, a global producer of customer-adapted plastic compounds based on virgin and recycled raw materials and its subsidiary, packaging developer Scanfill—both based in Ystad, Sweden—have earned International Sustainability and Carbon Certification (ISCC) Plus certifications.
Polykemi says the certification guarantees total traceability in the production and delivery of bio-circular mass balance-certified plastic raw material and is part of the company’s effort to create a progressive and sustainable industry.
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“We need to be able to show what we are doing to reduce the carbon footprint of our materials,” says Jorgen Andersson, quality and environmental manager at Polykemi Group. “It’s not a request from customers anymore; it’s a requirement. The certification enables us to offer high-performance materials that reduce the amount of fossil raw material and ultimately the climate footprint.”
Andersson continues, “Technically, we have been able to offer this type of both bio-based and bio-circular materials before, but now with certificates specifying how much biomaterial our supplier used in their process, and how much we then used in our materials, we can give the customers an exact traceability.”
At the same time as the certification, Polykemi says it has launched two new materials in its Natucomp material family. The materials are two types of bio-circular polypropylene (PP) compounds produced from mass balanced raw material.
“The difference in material quality between our bio-circular PP compounds and conventional PP compounds is actually none at all,” Andersson says. “The materials have the same technical performance. The difference lies in the used proportion of fossil-based raw material, which is lower in the bio-circular materials, thus resulting in a lower climate impact.”