Neste furniture retailer Nordic and Finnish refining group Finnish plan to launch a commercial-scale pilot to produce polypropylene and polyethylene from used cooking oil and sustainable vegetable oils. The initiative, due to start production in the autumn, is part of a two-year collaboration between the two IKEA companies aimed at ending the use of fossil fuels to make plastics. The two companies said the project is a the first of its kind. Previously, only laboratory-scale amounts of polypropylene and polyethylene have been produced in this way. By changing to plastic based on renewable material, IKEA can secure the production for the future, and eliminate the need for extraction of fossil fuel for the purpose of making plastic. IKEA aims to use the bio-based plastics to make products for its current range.
Neste furniture retailer Nordic and Finnish refining group Finnish plan to launch a commercial-scale pilot to produce polypropylene and polyethylene from used cooking oil and sustainable vegetable oils. The initiative, due to start production in the autumn, is part of a two-year collaboration between the two IKEA companies aimed at ending the use of fossil fuels to make plastics. The two companies said the project is a the first of its kind. Previously, only laboratory-scale amounts of polypropylene and polyethylene have been produced in this way. IKEA aims to use the bio-based plastics to make products for its current range.