TAGS: Sustainability / Natural Adhesives Waterborne Adhesives Reactive Adhesives Hot-melt Adhesives
H.B. Fuller Company, an adhesives provider, together with Covestro, a polymer suppliers, the office furniture manufacturer Sunon and industrial chain partners Zhanchen New Materials, Huafon Microfiber, Sinomax Kuka announced that they have recently signed in China the “Green and Sustainable Office Furniture Strategic Collaboration” agreement to promote the commercialization of innovative circular materials, reduce the carbon footprint of products, and support the low-carbon development of office furniture industry.
Focuses on Bio-based and Waterborne Adhesives
Led by Convestro and Sunon Research Center, the collaboration expands across the mentioned industry chain players and focuses on the application and commercialization of bio-based and waterborne coatings, biomass foams, microfiber materials, furniture adhesives, as well as post-industrial recycled polycarbonate materials.
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Sunon has always been committed to providing solutions for safe, environmentally-friendly, comfortable and intelligent office and commercial spaces. We have created better places to work by weaving workplace wellbeing into the fabric of our company’s mission and the entire lifecycle of furniture manufacturing, led by our pursuit of high-tech, natural and healthy products. This perfectly aligns with Covestro’s aim to usher in the circular economy. In order to create healthy workspaces for customers, we continue to promote environmental protection upgrades and innovative applications of sustainable materials to meet the market’s demand for low-carbon and environmentally-friendly office furniture. By working with Covestro and other partners in the industry chain to create new sustainable solutions, we expect to accelerate our industry’s green transformation,” said Chen Yuanfang, vice president of Sunon Group Co., Ltd.
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The world around us is changing rapidly, so companies like H.B. Fuller, must be good stewards of the planet’s finite resources, while at the same time, contributing to human development and progress. We are very glad to work with this group of well-known manufacturing companies to jointly promote sustainable development and circularity in the furniture industry,” said Du Xinyu, H.B. Fuller Asia Pacific vice president, Engineering Adhesives.
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y increasing R&D investment and utilization ratio of alternative raw materials and expanding local production capacity, we are actively promoting the transformation of innovation solutions and meeting the market demands by helping customers develop safer, more efficient and sustainable products,” added Xinyu.
Lower Carbon Emission
The adhesive business has been relying mainly on fossil-based chemicals to manufacture products. Now, this global adhesive player possesses the ability to
replace isocyanates from the reactive hot melt adhesives with the mass-balanced approach from Covestro, which helps to lower CO
2 emissions.
H.B. Fuller uses high-quality biomass raw materials and advanced formulation technology to implant into non-reactive and reactive hot melt adhesives. The process can play a major role in driving the circular economy forward, reducing CO
2 emissions and replacing the extraction of finite resources with renewable raw materials, without compromising the performance of traditional hot melt adhesives.
The company also offers reactive hot melt products with low monomer content with less than 0,1%, that qualify for label-free packaging, providing a sustainable development plan for a healthy and safe production environment. It can be used for edge banding, flat lamination, profile wrapping, book binding, automotive, and assembly of office furniture and other home furniture.
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Source: H.B. Fuller