Issue 163 2019-12-12 Souscrire

GRECO's TPU: Leading the new era of environmentally friendly materials

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Interviewee: Angie Lai / Sales Representative in Plastics Division at GRECO
Company Type: Manufacturer

We have the opportunity to Interview Ms. Angie Lai, from GRECO, she is working as Sales representative in Plastics Division, and is currently in charge of European Market.

GRECO is a company founded in 1955, being the first manufacturing company specially producing shoes adhesive, having developed market in over 11 countries, and 20 offices around the world.
Right now, it has 4 different production lines, these are Adhesives, Dry Film Photoresist, specialty chemicals, and plastic materials.

Nowadays one of the main concerns in the industry right now Is the environment protection, something that GRECO is trying to set it as their main focus “We are very dedicated in environment protection and work safety”, Angie mentions. With this the company has achieved different ISO, such as 9001, 14001, 18001.

Benefits of using TPU products in comparison with traditional products.

During the interview, Ms. Lai mentions several benefits of using TPU products, we can mention this are the following:

High environmental friendly materials
Excellent tear, absorption and chemical resistance
Expand eco-solution and reduce processing time.

Future plans and innovation ideas about TPU.

Working with TPU product as a solution for environmental problems, GRECO “continues persuading innovation and creating a greener and sustainable future in energy saving industry” Ms. Lai said. But also into their products she mentions that they are focusing in Expanded TPU which can be processed by injection molding machines, to produce friendly environmental materials, one of the advantage of using this, is that it remains the resilience over 60% and at the same time keeps the flexibility even under low temperature.

GRECO, “also has other highlighted materials such as Isothane ETPU, it has a lot of features such as low-temperature flexibility and excellent resilience properties, this new features is creating more practical uses for TPU, such as application of protection films in automotive industry but also in wearable devices” she mentions

But the applications of their TPU includes also long fiber reinforce for wind turbines, which enables to achieve wind resistance from offering lighter materials, and also in automotive parts, providing excellent rigidity and steepness and a dimensional stability, and is also a great metal replacement in automotive applications.

Another range of their products is medical grades which is USP6 approved, it can be processed by injection molding extrusions, Ms. Lai mentions that “GRECO currently has some projects with these materials using in medical tubes”

What is coming next for TPU products?

GRECO has very clear vision on where the industry needs to aim, “According to the newest research, the consumption of breathable TPU will increase to 2.3 billion in 2024, and there are so many textile manufacturers already switched their traditional processing method, such as using toxic chemicals coating into environmental friendly materials such as TPU” Ms. Lai said.

The ultimate goal for the future plan is to continue creating a greener and sustainable total solutions to the world. It is important that companies like GRECO make emphasis and conscious to the environmental protection, starting for now, and making good impact in the future generations.