LEGO Partnership with European Power Builds Decrease Carbon Different to Standard Plastic • The Toy Ebook
LEGO is ‘constructing’ towards a greater future.
European Energy has entered into an settlement with The LEGO Group to ship e-methanol as a lower-carbon various to traditional plastic manufacturing. European Power will produce methanol from renewable vitality utilizing wind and photo voltaic vegetation in addition to biogenic CO2, generally known as e-methanol, which can in flip be used for plastic manufacturing. European Power will ship its first batch to LEGO and Novo Nordisk, a Denmark-based healthcare firm, subsequent 12 months.
“The usage of plastic is an built-in a part of the trendy world, not solely in our every day lives but in addition in industrial processes and gear,” says Knud Erik Andersen, CEO of European Power. “Novo Nordisk and The LEGO Group are already main the best way into the longer term in numerous methods, and now much more by becoming a member of this cooperation. That is related for all industries eager on transitioning away from fossil fuels.”
The LEGO Group will discover the potential makes use of of e-methanol to make chosen merchandise in its present portfolio and expects to develop prototypes within the coming years with a purpose to commercialize in the long run.
“We’re proud to hitch forces with European Power and Novo Nordisk to speed up analysis and progress within the growth of lower-carbon plastics,” says Nelleke van der Puil, Vice President of Supplies on the LEGO Group. “As a part of our dedication to constructing a sustainable future for youngsters, we have now dedicated to creating our merchandise from extra sustainable supplies. The venture will give us our third sustainable materials we’ve developed alongside bio-PE and prototype bricks constituted of recycled PET.”
The e-methanol can be produced at European Power’s amenities in Denmark.
This partnership is the newest in an enormous array of sustainability efforts that the LEGO Group has been engaged in. Earlier this month, the corporate broke floor on its new, carbon-neutral factory in Virginia.
