GOEX Talks Trash About Closed-loop Plastic Recycling

At present, GOEX is the only plastics manufacturer able to recycle PVC plastic. The company’s CAROM 45r recycled sheet is extruded from PVC that has only ink applied. Recycled CAROM 88 PVC is targeted specifically to card manufacturers, whose waste stream contains not only plastic and ink, but also the magnetic stripe, signature panel, lamination film and other ornamentation typical of traditional card manufacturing. “PVC with ink (CAROM 45r) is simply an easier material to convert to recycled sheet. It doesn’t present the same processing challenges of CAROM 88,” Waddell says. GOEX Recycled PVC was a Finalist in the 2007 International Card Manufacturers Association (ICMA) Élan Awards for Card Manufacturing Excellence.