Sustainability is a core value for Colloids and an integral part of the Group’s corporate social responsibility. The business understands the need to offer customers better plastic recyclability and more sustainable bio based polymer masterbatch solutions to meet the growing global socioeconomic demand for more environmentally friendly plastic products.
In response, Colloids has developed an innovative range of greener, more sustainable biodegradable masterbatches for bioplastics as an alternative to conventional petroleum-based polymers. To reduce plastic waste landfill and incineration, Colloids can now also offer packaging customers environmentally friendly ‘non-carbon black’ based masterbatch alternatives. This black masterbatch product innovation enables PE, PP and PET based black plastic household and industrial mixed plastic waste to be detected and recovered by existing waste recycling centres that use near-infrared (NIR) technology for identifying and separating polymer grades.
In addition to the two standard NIR detectable black masterbatch grades available, Colloids also makes to order bespoke NIR detectable black masterbatches or compounds for virtually any polymer currently used for manufacturing flexible or rigid black plastic packaging.