in-house Recycling-Acetate - new colours UNIQUE recycled
Acetate is a fantastic material and has been used since the 1950s to make glasses, combs and buttons. This natural material made from cotton has many wonderful properties – among other things, it can be processed like wood, repolished and recycled perfectly!
A lot of waste is produced in a spectacle factory: we mill the inner and outer shapes of spectacles from a sheet. This leaves us with waste and a lot of shavings. We have been recycling this waste for over 8 years and, thanks to a service provider in Europe, have had new sheets made.
Since the beginning of this year, we have been able to do this in-house. And we are going even further – through various thermoplastic test runs, we have managed to compress the shavings into new acetate sheets for new glasses! The result is always a surprise, because of course a wide variety of colours are processed and the shavings always look ‘whitish’ at first. Only in the new sheet do they develop their full colour splendour.
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