In August 2024, K.D. Feddersen Holding GmbH, parent company of the internationally active Feddersen Group, which specialises in the trade and production of engineering plastics, granted a convertible loan to the Danish company Trebo ApS, which is to be transformed into shares in the company as part of the next financing phase. Trebo helps plastics processors to sort their mixed or multi-component waste back into mono-material fractions, thereby reducing the carbon footprint and the need for new materials.
Akro-Plastic GmbH and the plastics distributor K.D. Feddersen GmbH & Co. KG, in particular, have been maintaining an in-depth strategic cooperation with the innovative recycler for two years now. The Feddersen Group subsidiaries offer their customers Trebo's high-quality sorting service, enabling them to keep their own post-industrial and post-consumer waste consisting of two or more plastics/materials in circulation.
The co-operation between Trebo and the Feddersen Group came about through the Group's own Corporate Innovation Lab "port F". According to the group, it intends to further expand the existing sales and development cooperation in the coming years. The aim is to market the sorting service throughout Europe.
"Until now, there has been a huge gap between our customers, who mainly process highly engineering plastics and therefore have high demands on the materials, and plastics recycling," says Silke Hamm, Business Development Manager at port F. "Thanks to the strategic cooperation with Trebo, we can fill this gap and offer our customers a first-class sorting and recycling service. This allows them to close their own plastic loops, but also to bring first-class recyclates into an open loop or obtain them from it," adds Silke Hamm. The companies in the Feddersen Group offer a suitable platform to support the upcycling of plastic materials.
According to the company, waste that was previously difficult or impossible to recycle, consisting of more than two materials, can be almost completely sorted into its pure components using the patented separation process. Plastic-metal combinations as well as components made of many different polymers with only marginal differences in density can be separated by grade. Currently, components consisting of different plastics or plastic-metal compounds must be disposed of for a fee. With Trebos technology, this cost centre can be transformed into a profit centre and enables recyclate quotas and CO2 reduction requirements to be achieved. The recyclate supplied is also fullydedusted and demetallised. If desired, the recyclate can be compounded by Akro-Plastic GmbH.
"We are delighted that the Feddersen Group's access to OEMs and plastics processors has already enabled us to realise some exciting projects with customers from the automotive, household appliance and E & E industries over the last two years," says Andreas Leth Bockhoff, CEO of Trebo ApS.
Trebo will be co-exhibiting at the Feddersen Group's Fakuma stand in Hall B2, 2213.
Visitors to the stand can also look forward to numerous concrete application examples of the successful and sustainable collaboration between the Feddersen Group and Trebo.
