Interface Polymers and Flexipol Win UKRI Smart Sustainable Plastic Packaging Grant

Interface Polymers Ltd. and Flexipol Ltd. have jointly won funding through a competition run by UKRI’s Smart Sustainable Plastic Packaging challenge.  The £850K grant is to finance the 24-month collaborative project titled – ‘Recycle Ready’ multi-layer barrier plastic packaging films – to provide fully recyclable LDPE (low-density polyethylene) multi-layer packaging, suitable for upcycling into high-value applications. 

This highly innovative and challenging development project brings together Interface Polymers’ internationally patented and proven surface functionality Polarfin additive technology that overcomes inherent molecular level non-compatibility between polyolefins to enable them to be recycled, and Flexipol’s film technology expertise and flexible packaging manufacturing capabilities.