Supports R&D work to solve major issues in the recycling process CycleWorks Bulletin CycleWorks Innovation Center

To complement our wide selection of products, we work hard to maintain a robust catalog of services that support your ever-changing needs and give you a competitive edge.  CycleWorks™ Innovation Center The CycleWorks innovation center serves as a collaboration platform for value chain partners to advance mechanical plastic recycling.

Homepage // News Center // Avient Opens CycleWorks Innovation Center to Advance Circular Economy and Recycling Goals CycleWorks has already started producing useful data. CycleWorks further strengthens our recycling focus and ability to enable our partners’ recyclability goals.”    

SOLUTION BULLETIN CycleWorks™ Innovation Center Testing & Evaluation Facility to Explore Real-world Recycling in a Research Environment CycleWorks™ serves as a collaboration platform for value chain partners to advance mechanical plastic recycling. LOOKING AT RECYCLING THROUGH THE LENS OF SCIENCE The CycleWorks Innovation Center is a fully functioning recycling mini plant in Milan, Italy. Some of the information arises from laboratory work with small-scale equipment which may not provide a reliable indication of performance or properties obtained or obtainable on larger-scale equipment.

CycleWorks™ Innovation Center For Plastics Recycling CycleWorks™ Innovation Center For Plastic Recycling

These sustainability technologies can improve the customer experience of working with post-consumer recycled (PCR) content and support the use of PCR materials in packaging: Sustainability experts from Avient will be on hand to help address recycling challenges in packaging, drawing on research conducted at Avient’s CycleWorks™ Innovation Center that focuses on mechanical recycling challenges and solutions.   Avient is certified ACC Responsible Care®, a founding member of the Alliance to End Plastic Waste and certified Great Place to Work®.

CycleWorks™ Innovation Center For Plastic Recycling

For example, our recently opened CycleWorks facility in Italy is providing cutting-edge support for the development of new and sustainable masterbatch formulations, many of which we will display at Chinaplas.”     Versaflex™ CE Non-Blooming TPEs overmold onto PC and PC/ABS with a smooth surface, and overcome the challenge of surface blooms for consumer electronics while decreasing cycle times. Avient employs approximately 8,400 associates and is certified ACC Responsible Care®, a founding member of the Alliance to End Plastic Waste and certified Great Place to Work®. 

With resources like Cycleworks™ Innovation Center for Plastic Recycling and Color Prediction Service, Avient continues to strengthen our expertise to enable our customers to meet their sustainability commitments. Avient’s product stewardship team monitors the status of various chemistries and works with our R&D teams to drive the innovation pipeline with these alternative solutions.

Works with mixed grades of PCR, both rPET and polyolefins CycleWorks™ Innovation Center For Plastics Recycling