Omya Wins Award from Frost & Sullivan

Omya Recognized by Frost & Sullivan Frost & Sullivan recently evaluated the sustainable mining solutions industry and, based on its findings, recognized Omya as worthy of the 2022 European New Product Innovation Award. The company helps customers improve their environmental sustainability, competitive strength and overall productivity by applying a holistic life-cycle perspective to its products and services, enabling them to obtain innovative, value-added solutions. Omya develops value propositions to meet customers' current and emerging sector-specific needs and to enhance the technical capabilities of their end products. Omya is focusing on organizing its product development process to align its calcium carbonate product portfolio with regional sustainability targets of the European polymer industry, particularly those connected with the circular economy. To facilitate the polymer industry's transition to a sustainable and circular economy, Omya launched Omyaloop, a new family of recycled calcium carbonate products, with a need-based approach. The product family includes ultra-fine calcium carbonate Omyaloop MIX, specially developed to make polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP) compatible in mechanical recycling. Available in the most commonly used particle sizes in polymer manufacturing, the products can easily replace carbon-intensive fillers in existing formulations. Omyaloop is the market's first certified, 100% recycled calcium carbonate product series for polymer applications. The solution meets EU 10/2011 food contact certification requirements, and therefore can be adopted in multiple end-use sectors because it produces safe products for all applications involving food contact.

100% recycled products meet the following Omyaloop certified standards:

1 FC-AV 1T FC-AV 2 FC-AV 2T FC-AV 5 FC-AV 10 FC-AV Paulina Blaszczyk, industry analyst at Frost & Sullivan, stated: "Omya carefully selects and responsibly sources recovered calcium carbonate for its Omyaloop product line. Omya began producing its products using carefully selected raw materials in various plants across Europe. The comprehensive selection process and specification compliance earned it Bureau Veritas International Organization for Standardization 14021 certification for 100% recycled materials." Finding application in various market segments including automotive, PVC (such as flooring, pipes and tubes), compounds and masterbatches, Omyaloop is gaining increasing popularity as a viable solution. Adopting innovation and sustainability as core values, Omya is making substantial investments in R&D and leveraging market intelligence to develop new products that create positive value for all industry stakeholders. Sama Suwal, Best Practices Research Analyst at Frost & Sullivan, stated: "Recycled Omyaloop products perform similarly to conventionally obtained 'virgin' calcium carbonate in blending and extrusion processes, enabling them to be used as 1:1 replacements in many polymer production processes. Because of the product's immediate and complete replaceability, Omya can increase recycled content in its end products to meet stringent industrial sustainability targets." With its effective performance, Omya won Frost & Sullivan's 2022 European New Product Innovation Award in the sustainable mining solutions industry. Frost & Sullivan presents this award each year to a company that develops an innovative product utilizing the latest technologies. The award takes into account the product's value-added features and increased return on investment it provides to customers, which increases customer acquisition and overall market penetration potential.   Source