Compounding

Matco has a cooperation agreement for the Benelux and Germany with Hainaut Plast Industry, located in Cambrai (France). This company manufactures PVB out of windscreens and safety glass. Start: January 2016 Capacity: 15,000T/year post-consumer PVB with a 99.5% purity Type: pellets The pellets can also be grounded to powder (200µm) or be turned into liquid. The post-consumer PVB can be used as such (extrusion) or as a cost-reducing product to replace PP, PE, HDPE, PVC, PA, etc., it can be used in extrusion, thermo-forming and injection moulding. PVB applications: - Elastomers - Impact modifier - PVC compound - Textile binder - Hot melt - Coatings - Adhesives

Matco develops and manufactures a wide range of water-based adhesives for different types of end customers. Water-based adhesives based on: Synthetic polymers: - Homo-polymer emulsions - Copolymer emulsions - Acrylates - Synthetic latex Natural polymers: - Natural latex Applications: - (Spiral)ducts and angle profiles - Laminating - Closing of boxes - Production of displays - Honeycomb - Bookbinding - Insulation - Labels and envelopes

Over 30 years ago, in a time when ecology was unknown to general industry, this activity established one of the first full service departments of Matco nv. Since its beginning, Matco chose to apply circular economy and the cradle-to-cradle principle, even long before these terms were even invented. All those years of experience taught us to offer ready-made solutions within the multitude of chemical industries, in order to ensure recuperation and valorisation of ‘problematic’ cases. This way, an adequate answer can quickly be given to every industrial branch, within the wide variety in chemistry.