From some of us to all of you – Happy holidays from Polykemi Group!

Now when this very different year of 2020 finally is approaching its end – we believe more than ever that it´s important to send some friendly holiday greetings to you from your friends at Polykemi Group. 

Check out our holiday season greeting video and follow the flying Christmas gift!

This year’s Christmas gift

Once again, we have chosen to give donations to three helping organizations, instead of company Christmas gifts.

Bris – Children’s Rights in Society

A children’s rights organization that listens to, supports and strengthens children and young adults’ rights in society. Read more about Bris here  →

The Swedish Childhood Cancer Fund

The Swedish Childhood Cancer Fund works to fight childhood cancer and ensures that affected children, youth and their families receive the care and the support they need. Read more about the Swedish Childhood Cancer Fund here  →

MSF – Doctors Without Borders

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international, independent medical humanitarian organisation that provide medical assistance to people affected by conflict, epidemics, disasters, or exclusion from healthcare. Read more about MSF here  →

Opening hours during the holidays

Finally, we would like to inform you all that the production will close down for maintenance and holiday celebrations on December 23 2020, restarting again on January 11 2021. Within the working days of this period (December 23, 28-30 2020 and January 4-5, 7-8 2021) some staff at the transport and sales departments will be at your service.

Looking forward to connecting with you all again in January 2021!

In mid-November, it’s time for the well-attended fair Elmia Subcontractor in Jönköping and Rondo Plast are represented with our own booth together with the environmentally friendly super hero Rondoman.

We will highlight the recycled and customized REZY program as well as the new investment in more dark shades.

– In addition to the technical performance, we have extensive experience of working with customized shades in the black and dark gray color scale, explains Fredrik Holst.

He says that the right choice of raw materials and a long experience in coloring gives Rondo Plast the opportunity to offer several shades of black and gray, all according to the customer’s wishes, without compromising on sustainability, quality or mechanical performance.

– Welcome come to our booth and discuss recycled plastic with us. As a wholly owned subsidiary of Polykemi AB, we at Rondo Plast have both the knowledge and experience to solve new challenges and we can help customers both in the national and international market, says Fredrik Holst.

Elmia Subcontractor runs in Jönköping between November 12 and 15, 2019. Rondo Plast can be found in booth B03:58.

In our world – things are not all black or white

To make a choice can sometimes be difficult. If the choice needs to be environmentally friendly, sustainable, aesthetically appealing and with a cost awareness, it can be even more difficult. But now and then, it can be really easy to make the right choice. Like with REZYcom – our customer adapted eco-friendly material grade, based completely or partly on recycled plastics. A great opportunity to make a maximum impression with minimal environmental footprint, without any compromises in neither quality nor sustainability. A fact we are very proud of and can put our signatures on – in black and white , even in shades of grey.

Rezycom strengths

Custom-made shades of grey

The right choice of raw material and extensive experience in coloring of plastics makes it possible for us to offer multiple shades of black and grey, according to customers’ requests.

High mechanical performance

Numerous reinforcements are available and different choices provide different mechanical properties for the plastic product. With our experience and knowledge, we are able to make the correct choices, which results in a recycled material comparable to compounds based on virgin raw material.

Optimal product lifespan

Rays of sun, strong detergents or high surrounding temperatures can severely shorten the lifespan of plastic products. However, the correct combination of additives makes it possible to optimize its lifetime.

Quality in – quality out

We choose our suppliers and sources of recycled plastics with great care. We evaluate the sources continuously, since quality is of utmost importance to us. We know it takes high quality raw materials to produce and deliver high quality products. And that is something we do. Because we can.

Long experience of sustainable plastics

Polykemi Group produces and delivers high quality, sustainable compounds of recycled plastics for injection moulding and extrusion. Apart from the customized program REZYcom, we also have REPRO – our standard range of black recycled plastics. With headquarters in Ystad, Sweden, we have over 50 years of experience of compounding and are represented on three continents.

REZYcom – our customized program of sustainable materials for a sustainable future.

Nationally, Rondo Plast is one of the major advocates for sustainable materials. Now, we push for the recycled plastic globally, by speaking at a seminar in China.

In 2018, Volvo Cars’ ambition was announced that at least 25% of the plastic in their cars should be made of sustainable material by 2025. Ystad-based Rondo Plast is a central partner for the internationally renowned car manufacturer. This gave Rondo Plast the opportunity to showcase the project in China.

– Thanks to our good cooperation with Volvo Cars, we had the opportunity to push for the recycled plastic in China as well, says Fredrik Holst, Product Manager at Rondo Plast.

Rondo Plast, which is part of the Polykemi Group, was invited to the China Plast fair and Fredrik Holst was one of the speakers at the seminar Plastic Recycling & Circular Economy Conference & Showcase. The seminar discussed sustainability issues and what opportunities there is with recycled plastic raw materials.

– In Sweden and Europe, recycled consumer plastic is a well-known concept, but in Asia today, industrial waste constitutes a larger proportion of the recycled material. Therefore, it was interesting for us to be active in the discussion about how to bring consumer plastic back to the industry and what opportunities exist in the future, explains Fredrik Holst.

– It is our absolute intention to continue to be a global supplier of high quality recycled materials. The seminar in China provided a great opportunity to share our experiences and hopefully open up for a discussion about the material of the future in the Asian market.

Rondo Plast unterstützt die Zielsetzung von Volvo Cars, bis 2025 mindestens 25% des Kunststoffs in den Modellen aus nachhaltigem Materialien herzustellen. Das Demonstrationsfahrzeug von Volvo Cars, welches in diesem Sommer vorgestellt wurde, verdeutlicht Volvo Cars Engagement für diesen Anspruch, der von allen Premium-Automobilherstellern am fortschrittlichsten ist.

Von Beginn an ist Rondo Plast in das Projekt involviert und als wichtige Schnittstelle sowohl Ansprechpartner für den Spritzgießer als auch für Volvo Cars, um Ansätze von der Machbarkeit her zu diskutieren, Lösungen vorzuschlagen und umzusetzen. Rondo sieht durch die Teilnahme an diesem ambitionierten Projekt große Chancen für die Zukunft des Unternehmens und das breite Wissen auf dem Recyclingsektor von Rondo Plast und der gesamten Polykemi Group zu demonstrieren.

– Das neue Modell wird auf dem bestehenden Volvo XC 60 basieren. In diesem Projekt wird eine Anzahl von verbauten Kunststoffteilen mit einem Gewichtsanteil von 60 kg auf rezyklierte Kunststoffe umgestellt. Als Compounder sind wir seit Beginn der Entwicklung des Autos involviert, so Fredrik Holst, Produktmanager bei Rondo Plast.

Rondo Plast Produktmanager Fredrik Holst bei der Enthüllung des Concept Cars beim Volvo Ocean Race in Göteborg, Schweden.

Die Rohstoffe für die recycelten Kunststoffcompounds von Rondo stammen sowohl aus Industrie- als auch aus Verbraucherabfällen. Jede Charge durchläuft vor dem Einsatz in der Produktion die strengsten Qualitätsvorgaben und Prüfungen der Qualitätssicherung. Im Concept Car kommen die Rondo Compounds in Luftkanälen, der Mittelkonsole hinter Radio und Display, den Radhausschalen, der Ladeflächenabdeckung, aber auch in vielen anderen Anwendungen, zum Einsatz.

– Unsere Materialien werden häufig in tragenden und technischen Bauteilen eingesetzt, die später mit einem Oberflächenmaterial überzogen und veredelt werden, so die weiteren Informationen von Fredrik Holst. In diesen Komponenten liegen die besten Chancen für Volvo Cars das ehrgeizige Ziel zu erreichen, dass bis 2025 mindestens 25 % des Kunststoffanteils in den Autos aus recycelten Rohstoffen bestehen.

– Wir ziehen den Hut vor Volvo Cars, den unseres Wissens nach ist Volvo Cars der erste Fahrzeughersteller im Premiumsektor, der diese Position offiziell einnimmt. Unser Bestreben ist auch weiterhin, der Partner für qualitätsgesicherte Compounds auf der Basis ganz oder teilweise recycelten Rohstoffen zu sein, fast Fredrik Holst abschließend zusammen. Lasst uns den Weg gemeinsam weitergehen!

Rondo Plast liefert Recycling-Compounds für Kunststoffteile, die im Demonstrationsfahrzeug von Volvo verwendet werden. Bild zeigt die Qualitätssicherung.

Presseveröffentlichungen:

Plasticker

K-Aktuell

Kunststoff Web

K-PROFI

EPPM (Englisch)

British Plastics & Rubber (Englisch)

Plastech (Englisch)

Plastic Portal (Englisch)

Composite Solutions Magazine (Englisch)

Environment, recycling and a sustainable future. These were the key words when Rondo Plast exhibited at Elmia Subcontractor for a third year with our own stand concept.

The eco-friendly superhero Rondoman welcomed in booth B03:58 and he opened up for a nice and rewarding discussion. In a relaxed environment, there were opportunities for interesting and inspiring meetings where our other superheroes Fredrik, Dennis and Patrik could explain how companies can become environmental heroes by using recycled plastic.

Thank you for all visits in our booth!

Rondo Plast, together with Polykemi, presented exciting products at Sweden’s largest plastic fair Elmia Polymer, which took place between 15-18 May 2018 in Jönköping. We had a common booth that we shared with colleagues from the parent company Polykemi.

Our product manager Fredrik Holst attended the Recycling Day and informed about challenges and opportunities regarding recycled plastic raw material.

Rondo Plast AB delivers recycled material to HÅG´s (a part of Scandinavian Business Seating) office chair named Capisco. The Capisco office chair is already unique carrying the nordic ECO label called the swan and now in addition the Capisco has received an award at IdentiPlast 2015 in Italy Rome, where EPRO (European Association of Plastic Recycling and Recovery Organisation) awarded the office chair first price being the most innovative and inventive use of recycled plastics in Europe 2015.

See link to press release from rigk.com
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See link to german website www.plasticker.de
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See link to Chech/Slovak website www.plasticportal.eu
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See link to German magazine Kunststoff-magazine.de – issue 05/06
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