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2023/5/8

New Plant for Eco-Friendly Products Begins Operations in Germany

Nissha Schuster Kunststofftechnik, a Nissha company, started operation of a new factory for environmentally-friendly products in Germany on April 21, 2023.

As global interest in sustainability is growing, products that are plastic-free and have a low environmental impact are attracting attention. Nissha has positioned sustainable materials for those products as one of our priority markets, and developing "ecosense molding," molded products made mainly from plant-based materials, and "ecosense packaging," metallized paper which is recyclable as mono-material (paper).

Nissha Schuster offers ecosense molding in Europe for pharmaceutical packaging as well as plastic molded products for mobility.

Pulp-Injection, one of ecosense molding lineup, is an injection molded product made mainly from pulp, starch, and water. It has equivalent flexibility in shape and strength to plastic, is lighter than plastic, and can be recycled as paper in Europe.

Opening the new factory at Nissha Schuster will significantly expand production capacity of ecosense molding. Through operations, we intend to develop our business to include packaging for cosmetics so as for pharmaceuticals and achieve sales of more than 10 billion yen in 2030 through ecosense molding.

In addition, solar panels have been set up in the new factory. We aim to build an efficient and sustainable production process while improving productivity through such as automation.

At the startup of the new plant, Nissha Schuster was recognized as a "Hidden Champions" by the state of Thuringen in Germany. The award is given to companies in the state of Thuringen that have developed world-class technologies and businesses.

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