RÖHM
‘Green' PMMA for moulding compounds / Up to 30% lower carbon footprint
German acrylics specialist Röhm (Darmstadt; www.roehm.com) has expanded its Plexiglas proTerra portfolio of polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) compounds with two formulations that the company said lower the product’s carbon footprint with no loss in performance.
 The company’s Plexiglas range, now on offer with two variants of sustainable PMMA (Photo: Röhm) |
Its Plexiglas proTerra M5 formulation contains up to 30% mechanically recycled PMMA from post-industrial resources mixed in a controlled manner with primary PMMA. The product’s carbon footprint is 30% lower in comparison to a product made from completely new material, Röhm said.
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Röhm’s Plexiglas proTerra 8N compound is made using ISCC Plus-certified raw materials, allocated via mass balancing. It said the sustainable raw material replaces fossil resources but is chemically identical to and has congruent product properties of the incumbent Plexiglas 8N material while achieving a 25% lower carbon footprint.
Customers can use the green counterpart material without having to undergo renewed release testing, the company noted.
Röhm received ISCC Plus certification in May 2023 for all methyl methacrylate (MMA) and polymethyl methacrylate products at its largest production site, in Worms, Germany.
28.06.2023 Plasteurope.com [253023-0]
Published on 28.06.2023