Use of Renewable Plastics in Sony’s High-Performance Products

06 Feb Use of Renewable Plastics in Sony’s High-Performance Products

(Oilandgaspress) -] –Sony Corporation (Sony), Mitsubishi Corporation, ADEKA CORPORATION , CHIMEI Corporation, ENEOS Corporation, Formosa Chemicals & Fibre Corporation, Hanwha Impact Corporation, Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd., Mitsui Chemicals, Inc., Neste Corporation, Qingdao Haier New Material Development Co., Ltd., SK Geo Centric Co., Ltd., Toray Industries, Inc., and Toray Advanced Materials Korea Inc. have jointly established the world’s first global supply chain consisting of fourteen companies across five countries and regions for the production of renewable plastics2 that can be used in Sony’s high-performance audio-visual products. The various plastic materials manufactured through this supply chain are slated for use in Sony’s products that will be launched worldwide.

High-performance products such as audio-visual equipment involve a wide variety of plastics, resulting in a complex supply chain that makes it difficult to visualize and manage the entire flow from raw materials. Additionally, plastic components that require high performance in terms of flame resistance and optical properties cannot be fully replaced with plastics produced through material recycling3, hindering the further reduction of virgin fossil-based plastics in such products.

To address these challenges, the fourteen companies collaborated to visualize the existing supply chain for Sony’s products, and created a new supply chain that enables the production of multiple types of renewable plastics from biomass resources with a mass balance approach4.

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