Portfolio will include recycled, reused, and
bio-based solutions
Trinseo, a specialty material solutions provider, announced its
new series of sustainably-advantaged materials for the European
marketplace -- ALTUGLAS™ R-Life Acrylics. ALTUGLAS™ R-Life is an
umbrella brand that will include chemically and mechanically
recycled, reused, and bio-based polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) for
cast and extruded sheets, resins, and compounds.
The series launched with the following:
- ALTUGLAS™ R-Life Extruded Acrylic Sheets – with a minimum of 75
percent mechanically recycled, reused PMMA scrap material
- ALTUGLAS™ R-Life Cast Acrylic Sheets – with a minimum 75
percent chemically recycled PMMA cast sheet
- ALTUGLAS™ R-Life Acrylic Resins – with both 50 percent and 80
percent chemically recycled monomer from PMMA waste
The materials can be used in a broad range of application areas
in Retail/POS, Lighting, Interior Architecture, Furniture and
Design, Building and Construction, and Transportation.
“With ALTUGLAS™ R-Life we look at sustainability broadly -- as
any number of solutions that might enable a customer to achieve
positive sustainability outcomes,” said Aldo Zanetti, Global
Sustainability Manager, Engineered Materials. “We plan for
ALTUGLAS™ R-Life to be a growing and dynamic series; proven, with
scientific tools such as LCA, to have a measurable environmental
impact.”
For each ALTUGLAS™ R-Life sustainable solution, the Global
Warming Potential (GWP) was calculated through a Life Cycle
Analysis (LCA). By replacing fossil with sustainable content there
is a reduction in GWP of 35% for cast sheets with 75% sustainable
content and 53% for extruded sheets with 75% sustainable content,
and 24% for resins with 50% sustainable content resins and 38% with
80% sustainable content.
ALTUGLAS™ R-Life Extruded Acrylic Sheets is an ALTUGLAS™ CO2NET™
product with CO2 emissions reduction greater than 50% over its
virgin, fossil-based equivalent.
Both chemically recycled ALTUGLAS™ R-Life Cast Acrylic Sheets
and Acrylic Resins as well as mechanically recycled, reused
ALTUGLAS™ R-Life Extruded Acrylic Sheets are processed with
technology that assures the same mechanical, aesthetic, and optical
properties of a fossil equivalent. The chemically recycling method
used involves PMMA waste depolymerization where the material is
converted to its original methyl methacrylate (MMA) monomer.
ALTUGLAS™ R-Life joins Trinseo’s broad portfolio of
sustainably-advantaged materials. These materials as well as
Trinseo’s sustainability initiatives are included in the company’s
2022 Corporate Sustainability Report released earlier this
month.
Trinseo is committed to solutions for plastic waste by
partnering with the value chain, and developing and sharing
innovative recycling technologies and approaches. Since its
acquisition of Altuglas International the company has been a member
of European Union initiatives MMAtwo, focused on constructing a
novel PMMA recycling value chain, and REVOLUTION, an automotive
industry led project to apply recycled PMMA and other plastics to
electric vehicles.
ALTUGLAS™ R-Life extruded sheets, resins, and compounds are
produced at Trinseo’s Rho plant, near Milan, Italy and ALTUGLAS™
R-Life cast sheets are made at the company’s Saint-Avold, France,
and Brondeslev, Denmark locations.
Learn more about Trinseo PMMA and Sustainability.
About Trinseo
Trinseo (NYSE: TSE), a specialty material solutions provider,
partners with companies to bring ideas to life in an imaginative,
smart, and sustainability-focused manner by combining its premier
expertise, forward-looking innovations and best-in-class materials
to unlock value for companies and consumers.
From design to manufacturing, Trinseo taps into decades of
experience in diverse material solutions to address customers’
unique challenges in a wide range of industries, including consumer
goods, mobility, building and construction, and medical.
Trinseo’s approximately 3,400 employees bring endless creativity
to reimagining the possibilities with clients all over the world
from the company’s locations in North America, Europe, and Asia
Pacific. Trinseo reported net sales of approximately $4.8 billion
in 2021. Discover more by visiting www.trinseo.com and connecting
with Trinseo on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and WeChat.
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