Keen to be Green

Improving Sustainability

For the longest time, customers have been successfully using AOC formulations to produce composite parts, ranging from bathtubs and shower trays, to sewer repair systems and water transportation networks.

Many of our customers are on a journey to become more sustainable and want to reduce their impact on the environment. So does AOC.

Full range of rPET Products from Post-Consumer Waste

Fossil-based raw materials used for these formulations may become scarce in the future. 

Therefore, AOC is increasingly using post-consumer recycled PET bottles as raw material, and making available to the market a broad range of rPET-based products covering the majority of composites transformation processes

Quality Formulations

AOC stands tor quality consistency, close collaboration with our customers, and innovation to create sustainable products. Therefore, we are proud to offer you an extended range of rPET formulations across markets and transformation processes, and would love to work with you to introduce these in order to reduce the environmental footprint of your products (and enable you to differentiate in the market).

The manufacturing of formulations from post-consumer waste is more cumbersome compared to normal products, as it involves additional process steps. However, AOC believes that using rPET as raw material is the right thing to do for the environment.

The AOC rPET product series are produced in our operations in Ústí nad Labem in the Czech Republic. At this plant AOC has invested to convert post-consumer PET waste into a valuable raw material, and ultimately, into a quality structural formulation.

Synolite™ 4600 series for Marine

The Synolite™ 4600 series have been developed specifically for Marine applications, allowing boat manufacturers to further improve sustainability of their yachts, while not compromising on boat quality and mechanical performance. 

The formulations are Lloyd’s Register approved and available both in vacuum infusion (Synolite™4600-G-1) and hand lay-up (Synolite™ 4600-L-1) versions.

Synolite™ 6211-T-20 for CIPP/Relining

For the renovation of sewers AOC has introduced, which already has been used in multiple European countries to produce quality liners.

The rPET-based liners are deployed for the renovation of damaged pipes and allows to create a pipe-inside-a-pipe that extends host pipe life expectation by multiple decades.

Through the excellent wet out of ATH fillers and low inherent shrinkage (low cracking sensitivity), installed liners are strong and closely following the host pipe. Synolite™ 6211-T-20 conforms to DIN 18820 Part 1 - Group 2 and DIN 16946 Part 2 - Type 1140

Palapreg® P 40-01 for SMC and BMC

Many OEMs in Automotive and Electrical end-use markets would like to introduce material solutions that incorporate renewable raw materials. The novel Palapreg® P 40-01 is based on post-consumer rPET waste and meets these requirements.

This product can be used in Low Shrinkage formulations, both in SMC and BMC, while Low Profile solutions are under evaluation. The product is thickenable for use in combination with MgO, providing processing robustness in existing SMC and BMC manufacturing  operations. The fast cure at elevated mold temperatures ensures parts can be molded at short cycle time in large volume series.

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