Sony Corporation, Mitsubishi Corporation, Nestle and 12 other global partners have joined forces to create the world’s first global supply chain for renewable plastics designed for high-performance products.
Other are ADEKA CORPORATION, CHIMEI Corporation, ENEOS Corporation, Formosa Chemicals & Fibre Corporation, Hanwha Impact Corporation, Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd., Mitsui Chemicals, Inc., Qingdao Haier New Material Development Co., Ltd., SK Geo Centric Co., Ltd., Toray Industries, Inc., and Toray Advanced Materials Korea Inc.
Spanning five countries and regions, the consortium will produce renewable plastics for use in Sony’s next-generation audio-visual products launched worldwide.
High-performance products like audio-visual equipment require a wide variety of plastics, creating complex supply chains that are difficult to track. "Plastic components that require high performance in terms of flame resistance and optical properties cannot be fully replaced with plastics produced through material recycling," the companies noted, highlighting the challenge of reducing virgin fossil-based plastics in such products.
To overcome this, the partners collaborated to visualize Sony’s existing supply chain and create a new one capable of producing multiple types of renewable plastics from biomass resources using a mass balance approach.
"This allows Sony to proactively source raw materials for its products with the quality and properties equivalent to virgin fossil-based plastics," the consortium said. The new supply chain also enables companies to track and document greenhouse gas emissions, providing verifiable data to further reduce their carbon footprint.
The initiative is part of the 'Creating NEW from reNEWable materials' project, jointly launched by Sony and Mitsubishi Corporation, aimed at eliminating the use of virgin fossil-based plastics through renewable alternatives.
Sony, Mitsubishi, and their partners said they will "continue to actively promote the introduction of renewable plastics for high-performance products such as audio-visual products."
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