{"id":100948,"date":"2021-11-24T07:32:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-24T06:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=100948"},"modified":"2021-11-19T13:07:04","modified_gmt":"2021-11-19T12:07:04","slug":"positive-plastics-launches-first-sample-kit-featuring-sustainable-plastics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/positive-plastics-launches-first-sample-kit-featuring-sustainable-plastics\/","title":{"rendered":"Positive Plastics launches first sample kit featuring sustainable plastics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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A new initiative called Positive Plastics aims to convey a more accepting outlook on plastics to designers, engineers, and product managers. To achieve this, last month they launched their first \u201cPositive Plastics Kit\u201d, an invaluable tool for materials understanding and communication between non-technical and technical team members.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The founders, Efrat Friedland, Erik Moth-M\u00fcller, and Markus Paloheimo, experts, consultants, and educators in the materials and polymers field, created and curated a sample collection of various innovative, commercially available polymers. The kit holds Arkema, Biowert Industrie, Borealis, Lignin Industries, Mocom, Sappi, Sirmax, Stora Enso, Trinseo, UBQ, and UPM materials. The kit includes post-consumer recyclates (PCR), post-industrial recyclates (PIR), mass balanced grades, bio-based grades, and bio-composites. All grades are suitable for injection molding to produce durable products, such as consumer electronics, home appliances, sports goods, automotive interiors, accessories, etc.

Positive Plastics will continuously expand the kit as new responsible polymers reach the market.

\u201cTry to imagine your life without plastic\u201d proposed Efrat, \u201cnot without plastic waste, but without products and services we have all grown to rely on in almost every aspect of our lives. It seems that we can\u2019t get along without this material, but we must eliminate its waste and negative impact.\u201d
\u201cThinking positively about plastics,\u201d adds Erik \u201dthere are many new grades on the market that are composed of natural materials or recycled materials, or both\u2026.they can replace traditional, fossil-fuel based plastics in every industry and product imaginable. Sadly, very few designers and engineers are familiar with them. Our goal is to change that.\u201d

Besides presenting new materials, Positive Plastics offers a novel design of the plastic sample, no longer a flat, square, piece of plastic that reveals little about the material\u2019s characteristics.

\u201cOur unique sample design portrays the material\u2019s properties and its possible applications tangibly,\u201d explains Markus. \u201cHolding our sample, one can easily discover various surface structure options, different wall thicknesses, corners, hinges, fluidity indication, draft angle, shrinkage, warpage\u2026so many features in one piece!\u201d

Positive Plastics will present a complimentary kit to one hundred brands and design agencies to encourage an informed choice of materials and sensible implementation. Kits will be available for purchase online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Efrat Friedland
Phone: +49 1575 1572727
E-Mail: ef@positiveplastics.eu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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