Avery Dennison develops recycled polypropylene label stock
Avery Dennison has joined the Truecircle, a circular economy initiative by chemicals manufacturer Sabic, and announced it will develop the first recycled polypropylene label stock (rPP), which could potentially replace widely used standard PP film.
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‘Label converters will soon be able to expand further the range of applications where a sustainable material is a viable option,’ said
The new material is made via feedstock recycling (
‘We have worked closely with Sabic to make this new material a reality, and the result is the first-ever
Polypropylene labels are widely used in food, cosmetics, and a variety of other segments, so improvements in this area can make a major contribution to sustainability. The new Avery Dennison material is food-approved, and it offers the same properties as a standard PP film. In contrast to mechanically recycled materials the chemical recycling process used to make
Mariya Nedelcheva, product manager rigid film at Avery Dennison, EMEA, added: ‘Some plastics such as PET are already collected with high rates, with a clean stream of high-quality material that can be recycled mechanically very well. There is not yet such a collection stream for PP, so washing and mechanically recycling in order to make a new PP film is still challenging. Among all the applications for polypropylene, the bi-oriented
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