Muhr-TinKart
Company:
Muhr & Söhne GmbH & Co.KG, Sika Deutschland GmbH
Country: Germany
Category: Packaging Materials and Components
A NEW Packaging solution: how to avoid more than 25.000 tons plastic waste with Muhr-TinKart! An easy move into a circular economy.
The Challenge:
Up to now, silicone and acrylic is filled in to PE- plastic cartridges. Do to the "contamination" of silicone (e. g.), these plastic cartridges have to go to the waste bin disposal and cannot been recycled in conventional recycling plants. Plastic cartridge users have been searching for a solution for years. We have got it! The solution: With the newly developed Muhr-TinKart, the first cartridge made of tinplate, we make it happen, because it is almost 100 % recyclable even with product adhesives! Why? Due to its magnetic properties, the Muhr-TinKart will be picked automatically, it doesn’t matter if it is deposed by mistake into waste bin. -->
The magnetic will pick it before or after burning (melted down at more than 1,500 °C/2,732 °F) of the other organic waste. If the Muhr-TinKart is correctly placed in the Green Dot recycling bin in the future, it will be automatically picked and sorted, so that all tinplate cartridges will be go into circular economy to produce new packaging steel out of that or even upcycling by producing steel parts for long lasting buildings or cars.
Thus MUHR-TinKart will always find its way into the circular economy without downcycling!
Another big plus in terms of sustainability: bluemint® Steel is used in the manufacture of the MUHR-TinKart, which already saves up to 69 % in CO2-emissions during production compared to conventional steel production.
Product details of the Muhr-TinKart:
Content: 310 ml
Material: Tinplate bluemint® recycled
Application: silicones, acrylics and adhesives
Existing equipment at filler/user can be used