THE FUTURE

    THE FUTURE STARTS HERE

    The Amsterdam Innovation Center (AIC) is a state-of-the-art facility that offers a collaborative environment for our customers, end-customers and RENOLIT Healthcare Innovation teams to devise breakthrough polymer solutions and bring them to life. Our customers and their subject matter experts are able to join forces with our Global Innovation and Research & Development teams, our technology partners of leading raw materials, and our co-manufacturers under one roof. We offer various technology workshops linked to highly-prestigious technical centers and universities like TNO, Fraunhofer, and other frontrunners that our customers and end-customers have the opportunity to collaborate with, on-site, altogether.

    CHALLENGES & SUSTAINABILITY

    OUR CUSTOMERS’ AND END-CUSTOMERS’ CHALLENGES

    In order to stay at the forefront of polymer innovations and sustainability, we canvass the markets for innovation opportunities and challenges, create and host solutions and seek out co-developments and partnerships.

    SOLVING INNOVATION CHALLENGES DAILY

    At the AIC, we work with our customers, end-customers and partners to develop polymer solutions that solve industry needs in the healthcare space and beyond. Our diverse product portfolio spans across a wide range of application fields, making us keen to the latest industry trends and developments. Because of this, we can devise solutions with easier use, high product safety and outstanding performance that support optimal health for ourselves and the environment. Consequently, the AIC supplies an abundance of resources that encourages creative thinking, offers support, and gives wings to ideas that actualize products, services, and solutions.

    The RENOLIT AIC offers the following services:

    • Full-service EM Technology based rental concepts including EMT Die building, retrofit engineering and implementation, start-up services
    • (EMT) film recipe design and testing
    • Regulatory services
    • Resin change services
    • Root cause problem analysis and solving (together with one of our partners)
    • Resin compound design, development, and testing in clean room ISO class 7 in operation.

    OUR STRIDES TOWARDS A MORE SUSTAINABLE PLANET

    In our ever-evolving world that constantly faces environmental threats, manufacturing and raw-material companies are constantly presented with the challenges of swiftly and significantly reducing their ecological footprint and use of fossil carbon-based products. As we globally strive to live in a world that is safer, more environmentally friendly and fosters greater quality of life for all humankind, we must first begin developing better healthcare products that support such goals.

    COLLABORATION

    WE VALUE COLLABORATION FROM ALL AREAS OF KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERTISE

    We welcome customers, end-customers and partners from all departmental functions to collaborate with us – from (global) innovation and Research & Development teams, to Sustainability managers, to technical application and process developers, to Marketing and Sales departments. The AIC currently offers dedicated innovation and sustainability workshops to all departmental functions so altogether we can bring your best product to life, today.

    INNOVATIONS

    OUR ONGOING INNOVATIONS AT THE AIC

    The RENOLIT AIC is actively creating new solutions in the following areas of development:

    SUSTAINABILITY

    • Circular polymer product technology – A sustainability effort that uses the 7R approach (Refuse, Remove, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Renew and Redesign)
    • Technology that converts CO2 into Ethylene and Propylene gasses that serve as ergo building blocks for new, virgin polymers
    • Advanced recycling in all RENOLIT Healthcare production plants that allows semi-mechanically recyclable plastic waste to be efficiently reworked into 100% virgin monomers 

    EXTRUSION MODELING TECHNOLOGY (EMT)

    • Permitting the development of monoPE and monoPP barrier films that can be truly recycled as pure LDPE (recycling category 4) or pure PP (recycling category 5) while having a high barrier for gasses, aromas and humidity
    TECHNOLOGIES

    OUR MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGIES

    The RENOLIT AIC currently is using the following manufacturing technologies:

    EXTRUSION (all in Clean rooms with ISO =< 7 in operation rating)

    • EM Technology based water-cooled downward blown extrusion using up to six extruders and up to and around 200 nanolayers
    • EM technology air-cooled upward blown extrusion with up to six extruders and up to and around 200 nanolayers
    • Cast-Sleeve and Cast-Sheet extrusion with up to nine extruders
    • Horizontal water-cooled (narrow) tube and film extrusion with up to six extruders
    • PVC calendaring
    • Solvent free glue lamination
    • Multi station extrusion coating & lamination (note: non-clean room)
    • Twin Screw compounding and pelletizing
    • Twin Screw 3D filament extrusion
    • Inkjet coding
    • Thermal transfer coding/printing
    • EB-cured Flexo printing (partner)
    • 3D printing with ISO class 6 in operation build rooms
    • Injection molding
    • Co-Injection molding
    • Micro-Injection molding
    • Roll to roll slitting
    • 2D bagmaking (partner)
    • EB cross-linking (partner)
    • Vacuum oven cleaning as a service

    LABORATORY

    • CO2TR
    • COF
    • Digital Light Microscopy
    • DSC
    • DTA
    • FTIR
    • GC-MS
    • Gelboflex
    • Gloss
    • Haze
    • LC-MS
    • MFI
    • NMR (partner)
    • Notch Impact strength
    • Optical film thickness profiling
    • OTR
    • SEM
    • TEM (partner)
    • Tensile, Puncture, Dart-Drop
    • UV
    • WVTR
    THE SPACE

    OUR STATE-OF-THE-ART INNOVATION SPACE

    The AIC has 840 m2 of production test and start up facilities and its own advanced polymer science laboratory. Additional features include:

    • Cleanroom (Class 6) = 100 m2
    • Laboratory = 80 m2
    • Warehouse = 800 m2
    • A dedicated EMT blown film production line = 300 m2
    • Office space and ample well equipped meeting facilities to host innovation meetings = 900 m2
    CONTACT US

    LET’S COLLABORATE ON THE FUTURE OF HEALTHCARE TOGETHER AT THE AMSTERDAM INNOVATION CENTER

    We invite long-time customers, brand-new customers, and even end-customers to innovate together to shape the future of healthcare. If you are interested in joining forces, please leave your contact details in the form below, and we’ll be in touch. Together, we give ideas wings!

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