For more than 20 years, the Serge Ferrari Group has been committed to recycling its products. As start-up Polyloop's first partner, the Group is backing the development of a solution designed to regenerate composite PVCs.
The Polyloop start-up, founded by Gabriel Faysse and Romain Ferrari (CSR Director of the Serge Ferrari Group), has just been officially selected by ADEME (the French Environment and Energy Management Agency) as part of its Investing in the Future Programme (PIA) and an invitation to submit projects for
"Circular economy and waste recovery", launched in February 2019. The Serge Ferrari Group, deeply committed to recycling its products as part of its ecological transition, is focusing on recycling materials with high added value. In 2008, the Group developed Texyloop®, a recycling technology for regenerating raw materials, carried out at the Vinyloop Ferrara SpA factory, based in Italy. A minor shareholder of Vinyloop at the time, Serge Ferrari's recycling activities came to a halt in June 2018, following the majority shareholders' decision to close the site. However, more than 13 million m² of Serge Ferrari materials were given a second lease of life significantly reducing the use of primary resources.
"After the Italian Texyloop® recycling plant was closed down, I continued to dream of reviving this process on a smaller scale by setting up a network of compact specialized units that could recycle these very difficult to process composite materials. It was clear that the lack of a viable reprocessing solution was a very real problem for our user clients in this market. Polyloop provides a genuine material regeneration process without any depolymerization." Romain Ferrari - Co-founder of Polyloop and Group CSR Director Serge Ferrari.
Keen to expand its environmental approach further, the Serge Ferrari Group is now taking a new initiative by being the first partner of start-up Polyloop, a company developing a new, more sustainable and efficient recycling process. The Group has made the Texyloop® patent available to the start-up, so it can benefit from proven recycling technology.
POLYLOOP, AN INNOVATIVE PROCESS APPROVED BY ADEME
The Polyloop project is the winner of ADEME's call for projects compliant with its Investments in the Future Programme (PIA), an industrial policy tool designed to act as a catalyst for organizational and technological innovation. It finances projects of all sizes to develop or generate eco-industrial sectors established locally and offering greater resilience to climate change.
The compact equipment used by the Polyloop process, easily integrated into an existing plastics transformation plant, will deploy in containers each processing batches of 400kg in 4h. Easily configurable and flexible depending on the material being treated, the Polyloop solution guarantees the regenerated materials' purity, thanks to the high level of waste separation. This allows the processed material to be used immediately. Installed on production sites, the environmental impact of transporting materials to be recycled is reduced and the regenerated materials can be used immediately.
The Polyloop process, currently under development, will be laboratory tested in 2020 and then become a technology pilot project in 2021. The first module will be installed at Serge Ferrari in 2022.
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