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RECYCLING AND REUSE
Polyvantis and Pekutherm partner to close the loop

for PMMA plastics

Polyvantis, a German player in include fabricators and retailers across in use – and out of the environment,”
the acrylics & polycarbonate film and Europe. This initiative enables industry said Falk Majert, EVP Commercial
sheet, has announced the launch of a partners to return production waste and Core for Polyvantis. The returns system
new closed-loop recycling programme offcuts for recycling – helping to con- is designed to be as efficient as possible
for PMMA (polymethyl methacrylate) serve valuable resources, reduce land- for customers. Fabricators and retai-
plastics, in partnership with recycling fill waste, and support a functioning lers can continue using their standard
specialist Pekutherm Kunststoffe circular economy. procedures to collect Plexiglas offcuts,
GmbH. which will be picked up by Pekutherm
“Recycling is a shared responsibility. for processing. The re-granulated mate-
Polyvantis is seeking to reduce the We are proud to offer our customers rial is then reintegrated into Polyvantis
environmental footprint of its Plexiglas a practical and impactful way to con- production, where it is used to manu-
acrylic by extending recycling capa- tribute. By working together, we can facture semi-finished products, with
bilities beyond in-house production to ensure valuable PMMA material stays virtually no loss in performance.
Sygnature Discovery expands high-throughput

chemistry facilities

Sygnature Discovery, a UK-based ates compound libraries against biologi-
integrated drug discovery contract cal targets – these technologies can
research organisation (CRO), has an- accelerate the identification of promising
nounced the completion of a major drug candidates.
enhancement to its high-throughput
chemistry (HTC) capabilities and A cornerstone of the investment
laboratory infrastructure following a £1-mn is the integration of supercritical fluid
($1.3-mn) investment. chromatography (SFC) into Sygnature’s
HTC platforms leverage automated HTC platform. While SFC is becoming
Sygnature said its enhanced HTC systems to efficiently synthesise and more prevalent, few HTC platforms use
platform has now doubled its synthesis purify large volumes of compounds. SFC for purification. Sygnature now
and purification capacity – delivering When integrated with Sygnature’s offers both reverse-phase and SFC
twice the output in the same time- in-house high-throughput screening purification options, providing flexibility
frame. (HTS) platform – which rapidly evalu- and optimal purification conditions.
Dr. Otto Röhm inducted into the ‘Plastics Hall of Fame’

Dr. Otto Röhm, a company founder individuals who have shaped the inter- as an independent company in 1917, in
and namesake of today’s Röhm GmbH, national plastics industry through out- Germany Dr. Otto Röhm devoted all
has been posthumously inducted into standing achievements. his energies to plastics research, among
the ‘Plastics Hall of Fame’. The cere- other pursuits.
monial induction into the “Class of Together with businessman Otto
2025” will take place on October 7, Haas, Dr. Otto Röhm founded Röhm & Dr. Otto Röhm and his team of
2025, on the eve of K 2025 in Düssel- Haas OHG in 1907 – a predecessor researchers achieved their big break
dorf – the world’s leading trade fair for company of the present-day Röhm in the 1930s with the development of
plastics and rubber. GmbH. While Mr. Haas was instru- polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA), a
mental in driving forward international material that Röhm later trademarked
The ‘Plastics Hall of Fame’ honours expansion and spun off the US branch under the brand name Plexiglas.

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