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!

During September 2020, an art exhibition was held in Malmö, where the purpose was to draw attention to society’s major sustainability challenges related to plastic, especially what opportunities there are on how to face them. Rondo Plast sponsored the exhibition with several different recycled materials.

It is easy to dismiss plastic as a material that only causes problems. But plastics also have an important role to play in the transition towards a more sustainable society. We need to broaden our conceptions of plastics, in order to shift perspectives on how we design, produce, apply and use the material.

The artist and designer Kajsa Willner wanted to highlight this in the exhibition Materiality & Aggregation, to in an artistic context inspire and evoke curiosity about plastic, their material properties and their functionality in different applications.

Kajsa Willner built the interpretations and exhibition architecture with the aim of making as little CO₂-emissions as possible, using sustainable materials from local firms. Rondo Plast sponsored the exhibition with several different materials, based on both fully and partially recycled plastic raw material.

The materials were used in a creation in the form of a transparent patchwork with 117 pockets filled with different plastic granules representing the many plastic types available on the market.

Materiality & Aggregation

The exhibition Materiality & Aggregation had its starting point in a discussion brief brought forward by the research program STEPS (Sustainable Plastics and Transition Pathways).

The report addresses how to face society’s major sustainability challenges related to plastics. Designer Kajsa Willner interpreted these challenges in five pathways to a more sustainable plastic society. The five pathways were: reduce use, recycle more, fewer types, bio based plastics and biodegradable plastics. The pathways were interpreted separately in the exhibition, but all together were meant to be crucial in the transition towards a more sustainable plastic future.

– The aim for me as a designer and for this exhibition is to use design as a tool to communicate, to convey academic research in a way that can reach out to a wider audience, says Kajsa Willner.

– In this case it’s about nuancing the public debate around plastic and advocate a more holistic view to how we approach the material.

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A panel discussion was also held during the opening of the exhibition. It included designer Kajsa Willner, representatives from STEPS and Form/Design Center.

The discussion was about how design, academia and the industry can work together for a more sustainable plastics society.

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The exhibition was held between 10-27 September 2020 at Hedmanska gården in Malmö, Sweden, in front of Form/Design Center – a large meeting place for architecture, design and art in southern Sweden.

Read more about the exhibition here  →

Read more about the designer Kajsa Willner here  →

Photographer image 1: Kennet Ruona
Photographer remaining photos: Daniel Engvall

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.

Rondo Plast is supporting Volvo Cars ambition to have at least 25% of the plastic in their cars being made from sustainable material by 2025. The Volvo Cars demonstrator vehicle that was revealed this summer exemplifies their commitment to this ambition, which is the most progressive by any premium automotive manufacturer.

Since the start of the project, Rondo Plast has been a vital partner who discussed and found solutions with both injection moulding suppliers and Volvo Cars. Rondo sees excellent opportunities for the future of the business to participate in this ambitious initiative and to demonstrate Rondo Plast’s broad knowledge in the industry.

– The car originates from the existing XC60 model. Plastic parts corresponding to about 60 kg are replaced by recycled plastic in this project. As a compounder, we have been involved since the beginning of the development of the car, says Fredrik Holst, product manager at Rondo Plast.

Rondo Plast’s product manager Fredrik Holst with the demonstrator car revelation at Volvo Ocean Race in Gothenburg.

The sources of Rondo’s recycled plastic materials derive from both industrial and consumer waste. The materials from Rondo in the demonstrator car are found in air ducts, the central console behind the radio and the display, the wheel arcs, and the loading floor support structure, but also for other applications.

– Our material is often used in load-bearing and technical components which are covered by a surface material, Fredrik Holst continues. It is among these components that Volvo Cars has the best opportunity to achieve their ambitious goal, where at least 25% of the plastic in their cars will be recycled raw materials by 2025.

– We take our hat off to Volvo Cars for being the first vehicle manufacturer in the premium segment to take this stand. It is our absolute intention to continue to be the partner in quality assured compounds based on wholly or partly recycled raw materials, concludes Fredrik Holst. Let the journey towards common goals continue!

Rondo Plast supplies recycled material to plastic parts used in Volvo Cars demonstrator vehicle.

The plastic press informed about this:

EPPM

British Plastics & Rubber

Recycling Magazine

Plastech

Plastic Portal

Composite Solutions Magazine

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

November 2016:
Rondo Plast AB exhibited at the Elmia Subcontractor 2016 –  in a stand of our own!
The follow up work has started!

March 2016:

Rondoplast AB is quality certified conforming to ISO 9001:2008 and environmental certified conforming to ISO 14001:2004 since many years.
You will find the renewed certificates -valid from 28th Februari 2016 under Quality and Environment.

Febr. 2016:

Our new high heat recycle based materials REZYcom PP RT414 VT & RT418 VT also attracts interest within the spanish press.

Se below article from Plasticos Universales – an excellent occassion to practice some school spanish.

Read the article here

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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Also Plastic portal in Chechia / Slovakia notes this good news.
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