Furukawa Electric has developed a unique technology to regenerate difficult-to-recycle plastic waste, such as Flexible packaging waste, into high strength reinforced plastic. Flexible packaging, due to its lightweight, durability and quality, is regularly used for the protection of food and daily goods. However, since flexible packaging is often made from layers of different plastic materials, as well as Aluminium and paper, for most cases such waste ends up in landfill or incinerated. The technology which have developed utilizes the Cellulose Fiber of paper waste as a reinforcement source, by defibrating the paper into Cellulose fibers, and to disperse the fibers into the plastic in a single process. With this technology, the tensile strength of the original plastic can be increased up to approximately double that of its original state, allowing the regenerated material to be used for various end applications.
Furukawa Electric Co Ltd specializes in manufacturing and marketing electric, electronic and telecommunication equipment. Net sales break down by family of products and services as follows:
- electronic equipment (54.1%): automotive components, batteries, fiber-optic amplifiers, etc.;
- telecommunication infrastructures products (28.6%): fiber-optic cables, connectors, couplers, optical transmitters and receivers, routers, etc.;
- electric equipment (14.2%): electric power suppliers, vital lead, electric cables, etc.;
- other (3.2%): primarily real estate services.
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: Japan (52.6%), China (9.5%), Asia (21.5%) and other (16.4).
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