Creating beautiful design from scrap
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Many DuPont products can be optimized to reduce waste in our operations or for our customers, but our Corian® Design Solid Surface product line now actually consumes waste. The flecks, speckles, pebbles and grains found in Corian® Design products are important aspects in creating beautiful aesthetics for designers.
A team in DuPont’s Safety & Construction business developed a process that makes it possible to utilize production waste from across the portfolio to produce these design elements within the final product. This approach demonstrates how potential waste reduction and reuse opportunities can become visible when considering a full product portfolio, rather than a single product. Today, a carefully selected collection of Corian® Solid Surface colors contain a minimum of 6-20% pre-consumer recycled material, including three, on-trend terrazzo aesthetics from the latest color launch.
As a result of their work, all new Corian® products and product simplification efforts now reuse waste streams generated from across the entire collection of Corian® products as grinds, instead of creating new product for this purpose.
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