Our contribution to environmental protection is that plastic refuse is re-processed into products they originally were. Our work makes this possible.

Waste tubes turn into new tubes, defective tubular products into new cans, bottles, etc. ...
Once, twice, many times over ...

What is the amount of plastics production?

About 120 million tons of plastics are produced world-wide every year. In Austria, more than 1 million tons of plastics are put on the market, of which more than 220,000 tons are in the form of packaging.

One cubic metre plastics, i.e. a cube of plastics with a side length of one metre, weighs about one ton. Consequently, the annual, world-wide plastics production equals about 120 million of such cubes, which - put next to each other - a length stretching three times around the globe.

What are plastics made of?

Plastics (also called "polymers"; Greek poly = many, meros = a part) are organic compounds of high molecular weight. Such substances are called organic compounds which consist substantially of carbon and hydrogen, nitrogen and oxygen.

Plastics are produced either by modifying natural substances of high molecular weight (wood, caoutchouc, cellulose) or by chemical combination of basic compounds (so-called "monomers"; Greek: mono = one) by various chemical reactions. Accordingly, the distinction is made between modified natural substances (e.g. celluloseester) and synthetic plastics (e.g. polyethylene, polypropylene). Synthetic plastics are more often used and more varied. Their great variety is a result of the large number of possibilities in selecting monomer compounds (e.g. ethylene, propylene) and the different kinds of compounding then to chains of high molecular weight.

By admixing various additives, as for instance, colour pigments, stabilising agents, e.g. against UV damage, softeners or reinforcing agents, the respective properties can be varied according to the specific requirements and use.