CRDC Global launches large-scale plant to turn unwanted plastic waste into infrastructure San Jose, Costa Rica. CRDC Global and PEDREGAL today opened a state-of-the-art factory capable of turning difficult-to-recycle plastic waste into a value-added aggregate called RESIN8™ for use in the construction industry. The new plant, the first of its kind in the world, offers an innovative solution to the…
CRDC Announced as Winner of Henkel’s Global ‘Seal the Cycle’ Competition Henkel Adhesive Technologies, a leading global supplier of adhesives, sealants and functional coatings, has announced CRDC Global as the winner of its ‘Seal the Cycle’ initiative. The international open innovation call was conducted in collaboration with Chile Global Ventures, the venture capital arm of Fundación Chile, and aimed to…
JOINT PRESS RELEASE 17 March 2022 New Partnership to Help End Plastic Waste in Samoa Apia, Samoa – A new partnership between the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and CRDC Global, a Costa Rica-based company, will address the growing problem of plastic pollution in Samoa. The partnership aims to bring an end-to-end circular solution for plastic waste, focusing…
South Africa’s Construction and Development Industry Embraces RESIN8™ After launching the RESIN8™ pilot plant in Cape Town last year and being recognized with the DOW impact award, South Africa’s construction and development industry has been busy testing RESIN8 in a wide variety of concrete application tests – coming through with flying colors. Multiple concrete manufacturers partnered with CRDC’s South Africa…
LARGE SCALE RESIN8™ ASPHALT TRIAL UNDERWAY IN COSTA RICABusy ‘Route 27’ now permanently houses non-recoverable plastic San José, Costa Rica, January 2022. CRDC Global, in collaboration with Costa Rican partner PEDREGAL and Globalvia, an international highway operator, today announced the successful completion of sections of highway made with RESIN8™. Nearly 500 tons of asphalt containing between 1% and…
Interview with German Gomez, CRDC’s Factory Supervisor We recently sat down with German Gomez, CRDC’s Factory Supervisor, to ask him about our progress in Costa Rica. German has overseen production of RESIN8™ since 2019 and is now in charge of transforming the pilot facility into a full-scale production plant capable of processing up to 90 tons of hard-to-recycle plastic per…
Trial-run produced 2.5 metric tons of RESIN8, commercial trials to follow shortly. Using a combination of plastic waste, including PET, HDPE, PS and LDPE waste, CRDC’s UK team succeeded in October to produce the first test-batch of RESIN8 in the Southwest of England. RESIN8 is an eco-aggregate made from mixed, hard to recycle plastic waste that is used to improve…
July 21, 2021. Find Out How CRDC Global Helped Build Social Housing in Costa Rica in Partnership with Habitat for Humanity, Pedregal, and DOW. Watch this short video to see how the houses, which were built with Resin8, are making a real and concrete difference in people’s lives!
March 22, 2021. Dow, the world’s leading chemical and scientific materials company, has awarded the Center for Regenerative Design and Collaboration South Africa (CRDC SA) the Dow Business Impact Fund Award, worth US$100 000. The Dow Business Impact Fund is a competitive grant program intended to support business solutions that make a large-scale impact in collaboration with non-profit organizations. The…
