Syensqo, a spin-off from chemicals company Solvay, has added five new grades to its Omnix Echo portfolio of circular polymers.
The polyamide grades feature between 33% and 98% of recycled content attributed via the mass balance method. The feedstock includes both post-consumer and post-industrial sources, including fibres.
The new resins have applications in household appliances and consumer goods, such as drip and single-serve coffee makers, food processors and slow cookers, ovens and air fryers, kitchen robot chassis and kitchen utensils as well as razor brackets.
The Omnix FC 6000 ECHO HPPA series is the industry’s first food-contact approved HPPA compound with attributed recycled content (33%). Omnix HPPA is a family of high-performance polyamides that bridge the cost-performance gap between lower-performing PA66 and higher performing polyphthalamide.
Syensqo also launched a HPPA grade for non-food-contact applications, with up to 83% mass-balanced allocated recycled content.
The Omnix 1000 Echo series features 98% attributed recycled content and a 56% reduction in product carbon footprint in comparison with virgin poylamide resins.
“As brand owners and manufacturers are seeking to minimise the carbon footprint of their products, our Omnix Echo series now offer a range of attractive, Echo solutions engineered to enable outstanding sustainability with no compromises on processability, dimensional stability, stiffness, impact strength or surface aspect,” concluded Ricardo Calumby, global marketing manager sustainability at Syensqo.