Plastic Traceability - Cradle To Grave
Industries face the challenge of reducing waste and minimizing their environmental impact. This requires not only developing and implementing effective recycling programs, but also designing products with recyclability in mind. The challenge is to create a closed-loop system in which products can be reused, repurposed, or recycled at the end of their lifecycle, rather than being disposed of as waste.
The "In-Material Taggant"
In terms of recycling, product traceability is essential for creating a closed-loop system where products can be reused or recycled at the end of their lifecycle. By tracking the materials used in a product, companies can identify opportunities to increase the recyclability or reusability of their products.
With material identification and quantification, companies can demonstrate their compliance with regulatory requirements related to the optimization of recycling and their lifecycle.
OLNICA offers a traceability system using molecular coding and optical detection to address these challenges. OLNICA introduces their innovative solution, the “in-material taggant,” which enables the identification of materials throughout their entire lifecycle.
This taggant remains intact during various conversion steps, such as:
- Extrusion
- Compounding
- Injection
- Foaming
- Mechanical recycling.
It does not compromise the mechanical or aesthetic properties of the material. In case of mixing, each material can be identified, and the proportions can be measured, providing an effective and legal proof of the content and the amount of recycled materials.
Taggant
- The
Olnica Taggantis incredibly flexible as it can be added to materials. TheOlnica Taggantis highly robust. Unlike DNA, it’s inorganic, which makes it much more resistant to industrial processes like grinding, pressure and intense heat. It also doesn’t age under UV light. - Incredibly discrete, the
Olnica Taggantis odourless, colorless and invisible to the naked eye. - It is made visible only by a specific UVB light, not the conventional UVA lights. Highly stable, it doesn’t change a product or material’s characteristics in any way, and only requires a tiny amount to be effective.
Readers and software
Olnica Flashlight, theOlnica Sensor reader, theOlnica Pocket LabOlnica AuthenticateandOlnica Integritymobile apps for iOS and Android that ensure no adulterated or fake product makes its way into your final electronic products.Olnica Cloudenables everyone in your business to monitor activity related to counterfeiting across your global supply chain, upstream and downstream.
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