Case: Plastic material sample set
Material sample set
Positive Plastics
Future Materials / Plastic Recycling
A collection of 34 plastic materials with a reduced environmental impact including bio-based plastics, bio-composites, and recycled plastics. The sample set inspires and helps engineers, designers, and architects to specify plastics with a lower impact for the products of the future.
The global plastic industry is rapidly introducing new plastic materials with a reduced environmental impact and many product manufacturers are now looking to replace their legacy fossil-based plastics with more sustainable alternatives. This development is driven by both consumer demand and ever more demanding regulatory requirements.
Positive Plastics was founded to help manufacturers of plastic products to discover these new low-impact materials. Positive Plastics creates material sample sets with moulded samples of bio-based plastics, bio-composites, and recycled plastics supplied by global plastic raw material suppliers. Until now 34 different materials have been included in the sets.
The materials are moulded in a clever shape that helps the holder of the sample to easily understand material properties such as stiffness, surface finish, and ease of moulding.
The material sample sets can be found at more than 200 different companies where engineers, designers, and architects use the samples to find inspiration for their material selection. The Positive Plastics material sample sets released in 2021 and 2022 are available for purchase and the company is working on the 3rd edition, which will be available by the end of 2023.
