Sustainability 02. August 2023
Using recycled PET to make sustainable engineering plastic parts / Image with green background meado
With KEBALLOY ECO, BARLOG Plastics GmbH offers a new product series of customised recycled materials. The focus is on post-consumer recycling of PET. The special feature of KEBALLOY ECO: in contrast to commercially available recyclates, these materials meet the strict requirements for use in contact with foodstuffs and, like virgin material, are manufactured within a defined specification - including a technical data sheet and even data sets for injection moulding simulation.
The family-owned company distinguishes between two categories of applications: rather short-lived products that can be returned to the PET cycle that exists today, e.g. cosmetics packaging, but also edge protectors for securing loads, and long-lived products that today "only" take advantage of the significantly better CO2 footprint of recycled PET compared to virgin material.
For the latter products, the possible applications are manifold, because PET is temperature- and chemical-resistant, food-safe and dimensionally stable - the ideal candidate, therefore, for use in household electrical appliances, such as coffee machines, hoovers and kitchen appliances, or in the automotive industry and mechanical engineering.
Since PET can be injection moulded into both amorphous and semi-crystalline end products, it offers itself as an alternative for many engineering plastics - amorphous, for example, as an alternative to ABS, and semi-crystalline as a sustainable option for components now made from PBT, POM or polyamides.
The KEBALLOY ECO product range from BARLOG Plastics today includes unreinforced materials in various viscosities, as well as fibre-reinforced grades with 30-50% fibre content, which have been developed in particular for use in structural components and are intended to improve both the costs and the eco-balance of technical plastic parts, e.g. as a metal substitute.
The family-owned company distinguishes between two categories of applications: rather short-lived products that can be returned to the PET cycle that exists today, e.g. cosmetics packaging, but also edge protectors for securing loads, and long-lived products that today "only" take advantage of the significantly better CO2 footprint of recycled PET compared to virgin material.
For the latter products, the possible applications are manifold, because PET is temperature- and chemical-resistant, food-safe and dimensionally stable - the ideal candidate, therefore, for use in household electrical appliances, such as coffee machines, hoovers and kitchen appliances, or in the automotive industry and mechanical engineering.
Since PET can be injection moulded into both amorphous and semi-crystalline end products, it offers itself as an alternative for many engineering plastics - amorphous, for example, as an alternative to ABS, and semi-crystalline as a sustainable option for components now made from PBT, POM or polyamides.
The KEBALLOY ECO product range from BARLOG Plastics today includes unreinforced materials in various viscosities, as well as fibre-reinforced grades with 30-50% fibre content, which have been developed in particular for use in structural components and are intended to improve both the costs and the eco-balance of technical plastic parts, e.g. as a metal substitute.
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Ms. Michèle Schulz