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MOSCOW (MRC) -- Avient Corporation,
formerly PolyOne, has recently announced the official opening of its new
CycleWorks facility in Pogliano, Italy, according to GV.
The new lab and plant will
conduct chemistry testing and evaluations to help customers meet the challenge
of plastics recycling and advance the goal of a circular economy. The
demonstration plant mimics real-world recycling conditions in a research
environment, said Avient.
Avient has opened its CycleWorks Innovation
Center in Pogliano, Italy. (Source: Avient)Avient has opened its CycleWorks
Innovation Center in Pogliano, Italy.
“We have established CycleWorks to
study and meet the challenges of plastic recycling while furthering its
viability. This high-tech facility will allow our dedicated team to understand
the chemistry of polymers in the mechanical recycling process, and to see how
and where problems occur. For example, why and where are polymer chains
degrading? What role do colour and additives play in recyclability? It is our
goal to find answers to these questions and to understand the science behind
recycling,” said Dr. Jan Sultemeyer, global head of innovation &
sustainability at Avient.
CycleWorks has already started producing useful
data. The company will use this data to develop masterbatch formulations with
proven science behind how they perform during recycling processes, offering
customers a portfolio that’s essentially field-tested for recycling. Avient
expects to introduce solutions throughout 2021 as new data is
generated.
Walter Ripple, vice president of sustainability at Avient,
said: “As one of the founding members of the Alliance to End Plastic Waste
(AEPW), Avient is committed to doing our part in advancing a circular economy
through partnerships and innovation. CycleWorks further strengthens our
recycling focus and ability to enable our partners’ recyclability
goals.”
To facilitate industry partnerships, CycleWorks includes a
collaboration platform to ensure input from across the plastics value chain.
Avient said it expects this to improve the ability of new technologies to be
implemented in recycling processes and to assist brand owners in raising the
sustainability of their products.
On 1 July 2020, PolyOne and Clariant
Masterbatches joined together as Avient, a company focused on specialised and
sustainable material solutions with projected 2020 pro forma revenues of
approximately USD 3.7 billion. Avient has approximately 9,100 employees and is
certified ACC Responsible Care and a founding member of the AEPW.
As MRC
reported
earlier, in December 2019, Clariant (Muttenz, Switzerland) agreed to sell its
entire Masterbatches business to PolyOne Corp. (Avon Lake, Ohio). The
transaction values the Masterbatches business at USD1,560 million, representing
about 12.2 times the last twelve months reported EBITDA (ending September 2019)
on a cash and debt free basis.
According to MRC's DataScope report,
PE imports to Russia decreased in January-November 2020 by 17% year on year and
reached 569,900 tonnes. High density polyethylene (HDPE) accounted for the
greatest reduction in imports. At the same time, PP imports into Russia
increased by 21% year on year to about 202,000 tonnes in the first eleven months
of 2020. Propylene homopolymer (homopolymer PP) accounted for the main increase
in imports. |
