at Protexic Brands, it’s embedded into our culture. Our innovative materials are designed to reduce their overall environmental impact and our engineered solutions are developed to make our customers more sustainable too!
Getting your products to their destination undamaged is one of the biggest ways we can increase our customer’s sustainability. The foundation of our products is the safe delivery of your products.
Contrary to popular belief, foam really CAN be sustainable. It is 100% recyclable, and can be utilized to help reduce the overall environmental impact of your products.
We don’t just slap a recycled icon on our products and say ‘we’re sustainable.’ At Protexic Brands sustainability is part of our overall strategy and mission.
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Locate a facilityWe specialize in solutions that ensure safe delivery of your product. In addition, our network of facilities located nationwide allows us to help our customers by streamlining delivery and being flexible to meet their needs
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Protexic Brands
3930 N. Ventura Drive, Suite 450
Arlington Heights, IL 60004
(800) 289-9966
protexic.marketing@tegrant.com
Customer Challenge: Replace extensive PE plastic casting on the side of HVAC pump.
Solution: Our Engineers developed an innovative design that not only serves as a component outside the pump, but also as protective packaging. This design helped the customer to reduce the overall footprint of the design, with fewer materials, lower costs, increased freight charges.
Customer Challenge: Redesign heat pump casing for the outside of a water tank, so that the foam fit around the components, and held the two pieces together.
Solution: Our Engineers were able to create something that far exceeded the customer’s initial requirements. The new design was able to reduce raw materials used & increase energy efficiency using 100% recycled EPP foam, which also provided excellent insulation.
Customer Challenge: Reduce pack size without jeopardizing protection.
Solution: With an innovative new pack size, as well as a new packing configuration on the pallet, we were able to reduce the number of shipments this customer needed to fulfill the same number of orders, ultimately resulting in a reduced CO2 footprint, and saving this customer over $250,000/year.
Customer Challenge: Reduce the cost of the package.
Solution: Protexic engineers have helped many customers reduce packaging costs; but there is also a hidden sustainability benefit. Reducing cost will usually reduce size and materials, which leads to lower raw material costs, a smaller carbon footprint, fuel savings, and reduced assembly labor.
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Did you Know? EPS is 100% recyclable, can be recycled at over 200 locations nationwide, and all Tegrant facilities accept foam for recycling.
Leading the Way: Tegrant is a founding member of the Alliance of Foam Packaging Recyclers (AFPR). Tegrant and AFPR have worked together diligently in order to promote and increase EPS knowledge in the industry and with the public.
Did you Know? EcoSix® EPS is the only moldable EPS product on the market that is certified as containing 60%+ Pre-Consumer material and uses recycled product as raw material so the finished product is “new” and not recycled? EcoSix® is new bead while regrind is old bead and has similar performance to virgin EPS and is 100% recyclable with virgin EPS.
Leading the Way: Tegrant Protexic Brands is the first certified molder of EcoSix®.
Did you Know? EPP is 100% recyclable and all Tegrant facilities accept foam for recycling It is also used in car components (like bumpers) to make them lighter and more fuel efficient.
Leading the Way: Tegrant has created a line of returnable EPP totes, called TransGuard®. These totes can be used multiple times because EPP is more durable than other foams; which in turn reduces overall raw material usage.
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Water: Tegrant has focused on reducing its use of natural resources with a significant reduction in water usage and wastewater discharge from 2008 to 2010 to implementing water recirculation systems in all the plants to reduce freshwater use.
Energy: All Tegrant facilities have implemented waste heat recovery systems as well as modernized production lighting to reduce energy usage (28,000 kW reduction in 2010).
EPS: Tegrant either uses or recycles all of its EPS foam; over 21 million pounds were recycled since 2001. Tegrant also uses regrind in the molding process to reuse post industrial scrap as well as EPS returned to Tegrant facilities for recycling.
Returnables: Tegrant has customers that return their products to be reground for use in manufacturing for new products as well as customers that just return their products for inspection and reuse.
Recycling Programs: Tegrant is involved in ComEd and EverLights programs for energy reduction and light bulb recycling as well as has office recycling programs in place for paper, batteries, printer cartridges, cans, plastic bottles, and corrugated. Tegrant also has programmable thermostats and some motion sensors to reduce heating/cooling and lights when the office is empty.
We Participate: Tegrant is actively involved with our office supply provider in procuring products that were made from post consumer recycled content. Tegrant’s Alloyd division participates in an annual park clean up in DeKalb, IL.
Foam IS Sustainable: Foam components can make a product more sustainable by reducing product weight for increased fuel savings and reduced shipping costs. Just think: there is a lot of foam inside your car that both improves fuel efficiency and protects you while you ride!
Prevent Waste: Foam can provide insulation to reduce energy waste as well as replacing labor intensive assemblies with fewer components to reduce material waste and cost.
Continuous Improvement: Tegrant has taken it upon themselves to consistently revisit all parts manufactured in all facilities and investigate ways in which to improve them. They look for cost savings, increased tool yields, or reduced labor/assembly time.
Re-engineer: Tegrant engineers are actively involved with the customers as well as the manufacturing team to re-design existing parts to ensure they are designed for the environment. In addition, all new projects are approached with sustainability and carbon footprint reduction in mind.