Company will continue to develop safer plastics free of estrogenic activity
(Austin, Texas) – PlastiPure announced today that it received a $1.1 million grant from
the National Institute of Environmental Health and Safety (NIEHS) to continue
development and commercialization of plastics that do not leach chemicals with harmful
estrogenic activity (EA). PlastiPure will use these federal funds to expand its line of
innovative materials and products that are free from EA (EA-Free™). “This NIEHS funding validates our innovative technology and will allow us to expand our development of PlastiPure-Safe™ materials,” said Mike Usey, PlastiPure CEO. “Consumers want products made and certified as EA-Free™, which are vastly superior to current market solutions that use BPA-free plastics, glass or metal materials. PlastiPure is committed to offering safe, reliable plastics that don’t threaten the health and safety of our families.”
In addition to the estrogenic chemicals BPA and phthalates, hundreds of other chemicals
having EA are used in plastics manufacturing. Health issues associated with EA include
birth defects, reproductive cancers and behavioral and learning disorders.
Over the past year, PlastiPure has successfully introduced PlastiPure-Safe™ resins
(e.g. Topas COC PlastiPure grades) and certified EA-Free™ products (e.g. the
Purebot™ by Hydrapak). PlastiPure will use this funding to develop, or improve through
its partners, several additional colorants, clarifiers, antistatic agents and antioxidants that
could be incorporated with resins to continue expanding its line of safer plastics.
“Our extensive research has enabled us to identify thousands of chemicals that contain
estrogenic activity,” said Usey. “And this allows us to avoid and not re-introduce these
chemicals into our formulations and production methods providing a safer plastic for
consumers as well as our environment.”
PlastiPure provides technology that quickly and comprehensively addresses the
hundreds of estrogenic chemicals in plastics by eliminating them completely in its
materials. PlastiPure’s solutions do not require the use of exotic materials or molder
retooling, nor do they change the processing or fit-for-use characteristics of materials
making PlastiPure’s resins and manufacturing processes far superior to the current
chemical-by-chemical replacement strategy.