RECOTHENE™ RECYCLED CONTENT WITHOUT COMPROMISE FOR FILM MANUFACTURERS

Leading UK plastics recycler Chase Plastics has recently launched RECOTHENE™, a high performance range of recycled polythene pellets.  Engineered to ensure consistently high levels of processability and quality, RECOTHENE™ is available in both post-consumer and pre-consumer grades of low-density polythene.  Chase Plastics is seeing a growing demand for RECOTHENE™ from the packaging film sector as companies reformulate their product ranges ahead of the implementation of the UK Packaging Tax in April 2022.

RECOTHENE™ is engineered to overcome the inherent inconsistency in recycled materials, and achieves excellent results with all extrusion machinery from simple mono lines to advanced multi-layer co-extrusion machinery.

The standard range of RECOTHENE™ recycled polythene pellets includes:

• Natural Pre Consumer LDPE
• Post-Consumer Natural (Increased LLDPE content) LDPE

Manufactured in Chase Plastics’ EUCertPlast accredited UK recycling facility, RECOTHENE™ is a proven solution for customers who are achieving excellent results introducing it into their packaging applications at addition rates in excess of 30%. 

“This is a challenging Tax, especially for the UK packaging film sector, but the good news is that Chase Plastics is here to help.” says Managing Director, Jessica Baker. “Our strength has always been in providing a highly consistent recycled polymer batch after batch.  RECOTHENE™ builds on this and has been developed to provide the quality required for use in high performance films.”