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The global polymer distributor Meraxis is reinforcing its management team: Olga Baburina is assuming leadership of Global Sales and Dr. Mattis Gosmann is taking over as head of the Standard & Performance Polymers Division at Meraxis. These two management additions are strengthening the company’s global polymer purchasing and sales operations to support continued growth. Meraxis is one of the world's leading plastics distributors. The full-service provider's one-stop shop supports customers in the strategic procurement of polymers and polymer-related products.

Meraxis will showcase its one-stop shop from October 15 to 19, 2024 at the Fakuma in Friedrichshafen, one of the leading international trade fairs for plastics processing. The global distributor will spotlight its expanding range of digital solutions at the trade fair. These are designed to streamline business processes of polymer processors and promote their sustainability activities. Meraxis will be unveiling several new tools and features at the trade fair. The full-service provider's digital solutions complement its wide-ranging product and service portfolio, which includes polymers, additives, and investment goods, such as tools, machines, and trade parts.

Meraxis, a worldwide leading plastics distributor, and the AI deep-tech start-up POLYMERIZE have forged a strategic partnership. POLYMERIZE is a developer and provider of a materials informatics platform, which is specifically tailored to the research and development needs in the polymer industry. POLYMERIZE’s Software-as-a-Service platform allows converters, producers, and compounders to optimize their materials development and launch new – and more sustainable – products more quickly. This partnership aims to expand their range of services in the European market. Meraxis is also a shareholder of the Singapore-based start-up.

International industrial project researches pioneering technology as part of a feasibility study. The polymer industry is giving further innovations in order to solve the next challenges to close the loop of the PVC circular economy. In a transnational project, French chemical company Kem One, Swiss plastics distributor Meraxis and German-based polymers specialist REHAU are working on extracting heavy metals like lead from PVC recyclate. The project is in an early research phase and results could make the raw material even more sustainable. In addition, the extracted heavy metals could be returned to the supply chain cycle.

The global polymer distributor Meraxis has restructured its Executive Board as of March 1: the area of responsibility of Chief Operating Officer (COO) Emmanuel Tarret is being significantly expanded. Tarret, who has been a member of the Meraxis Executive Board for a year, is taking over the newly merged Standard & Performance Polymers Division and assuming charge for Global Sales. This new structure supports the company’s growth ambition in technical polymers and recycling materials.

The Swiss trading group Meraxis and the Finnish company Fortum Recycling & Waste (Fortum) are deepening their existing cooperation with a strategic partnership. Meraxis will distribute Fortum recyclates throughout Europe. The offer includes PP, HDPE and LDPE recyclates as well as customized re-compounds. Through this cooperation, Meraxis is expanding its product range of recyclates and can thus offer its customers an even larger portfolio of sustainable material alternatives to prime material.