Partnership to enhance sustainability
The patent pending SPTek Eclipse technology will be used in hygiene and medical nonwovens products.
An exclusive joint development agreement has been signed between PFNonwovens and Smart Plastic Technologies (SPT). The patent pending SPTek Eclipse technology from SPT will be used in PFNonwovens’ hygiene and medical nonwovens products.
Initial work has already shown that the Eclipse bio-assimilation technology can be used on pilot-scale equipment. Now, the focus of PFNonwovens s.r.o., Prague/Czech Republic, is to optimize the formulation for nonwovens to ensure performance and meet end-of-life goals.
SPTek Eclipse from Smart Plastic Technologies LLC, Chicago, IL/USA, enables the bio-assimilation of polypropylene (PP) and polyethylene (PE) polymers at the end of a product’s guaranteed life span in terrestrial, marine, and landfill environments. The Eclipse bio-assimilation technology steadily reduces and modifies the polymer chains to enable the assimilation of these molecules by microorganisms, transforming the material into biomass, CO2, and water. The technology is FDA approved, 100% recyclable, and has already been commercialized by Smart Plastic Technologies in various industries.
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