Circular Activity: Circular Products & Materials
Headquarters: Denmark
Shark Solutions is the market leader in the production of recycled polyvinyl butyral (rPVB), a high-margin, sustainable, non-toxic, recyclable material, with a variety of attractive technical properties including binding, adhesion, flexibility and sound dampening performance.
Traditional approaches to the recycling of end of life laminated glass (including windscreens and architectural glass) are unable to capture the highly valuable polymer interlayer (PvB) that improves performance under impact. Shark has developed a cost-effective process for separating PVB for use in a range of industries, including paints, coatings, adhesives and flooring products.
Shark Solution’s plants in Europe and the United States manufacture tens of thousands of tonnes of material per year for leading, global industrial companies, including for use in a number of Cradle-to-Cradle Certified® products.