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Vinyl Institute Joins REMADE Institute as Affiliate Member
Jan. 19, 2021
WASHINGTON, DC – The Vinyl Institute, the U.S. trade association representing manufacturers of vinyl, vinyl chloride monomer (VCM), additives, and modifiers, is pleased to announce it has joined the Reducing Embodied-Energy and Decreasing Emissions (REMADE) Institute as an affiliate member.
The REMADE Institute, operated by the Sustainable Manufacturing Innovation Alliance and funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, is a consortium helping to reduce the carbon footprint of the U.S. manufacturing industry and increase its sustainability. Its mission is to enable early research and development of industrial platform technologies that could reduce embodied energy and carbon emissions associated with industrial-scale materials production and processing, including recycling.
“The vinyl industry is systematically advancing in its sustainability journey, and we have taken important strides in our recycling progress, including setting an industry goal of achieving a 10% increase in post-consumer recycling by 2025,” said Ned Monroe, VI President & CEO. “The REMADE Institute can provide innovative technical research directed at recycling plastics that will be valuable in ensuring we achieve this benchmark.”
REMADE is focused on accelerating the circular economy through technological solutions grounded in five key areas of concentration: Systems Analysis & Integration, Design for Re-X, Manufacturing Materials Optimization, Remanufacturing and End-of-life Reuse, and Recycling & Recovery. It has also determined four materials classes that represent the greatest areas of opportunity: metals, polymers, fibers, and e-waste.
The Institute currently has 39 public-private partnership projects at a value of nearly $20 million invested. Each of these projects focuses on driving down the cost of technologies needed to reuse, recycle, and remanufacture the materials. Shortly, REMADE will be announcing the selection of numerous projects from its most recent funding opportunity that is expected to more than double the value of its current portfolio.
“Given the VI’s focus on increasing the vinyl industry recycling rate, we are particularly excited to see where recycling technologies are being developed,” Monroe said.
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About the Vinyl Institute:
The Vinyl Institute (VI), founded in 1982, is a U.S. trade association representing the leading manufacturers of vinyl, vinyl chloride monomer, vinyl additives, and modifiers. The VI works on behalf of its members to promote the benefits of the world’s most versatile plastic, used to make everything from PVC piping to flooring, roofing and vinyl siding. The vinyl industry in the United States employs over 350,000 highly skilled employees at nearly 3,000 facilities and generates an economic value of $54 billion. For more information, visit vinylinfo.org.