Summary
- Profile Type
- Business Offer
- POD Reference
- BOFR20231024023
- Term of Validity
- 26 October 2023 - 25 October 2025
- Company's Country
- France
- Type of partnership
- Supplier agreement
- Targeted Countries
- All countries
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General information
- Short Summary
- A French SME has set up and manages collection networks for used fishing nets made in polyamide. Once at the factory, nets are recycled using a mechanical process to obtain a new raw material that is both technical and meets the challenges of CSR. The product is a rPA6 100 sourced from nets with a complete traceability from ports to pellets. Supplier agreements are sought with plastic injection industries or brands marketing plastic products, wishing to improve their circular economy strategy.
- Full Description
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The French SME based in Britany (North West part of France) is the supplier of a singular and sustainable plastic: recycled polyamide 6 and 100% sourced from discarded fishing nets locally collected (40 partner ports spread over 4 metropolitan regions).
To ensure the quality and the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) value of the material, the company works on two main sides (upstream sector at the level of the deposit in the ports + more traditional side recycling process). In order to secure the sourcing and ensure the good quality of the nets, the company has operational roles on the harbours and collecting networks.
The French SME has its own recycling factory to warrant the following steps:
1/ sorting plastic materials
2/ grinding to reduce fillets into small fibres
3/ melt the crushed fibres to make recycled material pellets.
The company has a full mechanical recycling process. The first steps are made directly in the factory with a part of social-supported employees. The nets are sorted to be shredded into short fibres. These two steps are very important to guarantee the quality traceability and processability of the extruder. The extrusion and pelletisation (raw pellets) process is the end of the recycling step. The fibres are melted in the machine to obtain the final pellets.
The French company is looking for supplier agreements with partners supplier agreements with partners who are looking for high-performance technical plastic materials that are more eco-responsible. - Advantages and Innovations
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- 100% Recycled from fishing nets no additives
- Recyclable material
- Complete traceability
- Sustainable (circular economy)
- Corporate Social Responsibility
- Technical performance assured: polyamide material maintains its performance after recycling of the threads (melting temperature, impact resistance, etc.)
- Made in France
- Possibility to make compounds / colorations, glass fibres … - Stage of Development
- Already on the market
- Sustainable Development Goals
- Goal 14: Life Below Water
- Goal 6: Clean Water and Sanitation
- Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
- Goal 10: Reduced Inequality
- Goal 12: Responsible Consumption and Production
Partner Sought
- Expected Role of a Partner
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The French company is looking for partners in two main sectors:
• Brands that sell products: companies that sell their products directly on the B2C or B2B market in sectors such as:
-sports and outdoor leisure (surf production, etc.)
-glass medical devices
-manufacturers of windows and roller shutters
-plastic furniture makers
-plastic household products / cosmetic packaging / plastic toys
• Plastic injection moulding industries: subcontractors of brands selling products, or industrial companies producing plastic products for their customers in the above or other sectors. - Type and Size of Partner
- SME 11-49
- SME 50 - 249
- Big company
- SME <=10
- Type of partnership
- Supplier agreement
Dissemination
- Technology keywords
- 02007014 - Plastics, Polymers
- 10003004 - Recycling, Recovery
- 10002013 - Clean Production / Green Technologies
- 02002013 - Moulding, injection moulding, sintering
- Market keywords
- 009007002 - Manufacture of building materials
- 08001005 - Other fabricated plastics
- 09004001 - Business products and supplies
- 08001002 - Homogeneous injections/extrusions
- 08001001 - Plastic fabricators
- Targeted countries
- All countries
