Dulux Powder Coatings collaborate with Transmutation to develop a sustainable product solution.

3 May 2024

Dulux Powder Coatings have collaborated with South Australian recycling business, Transmutation to sustainably recycle powder waste from our factories.

Transmutation’s vision is to educate customers to the concepts of reduce, reuse, and recycle by only selling and manufacturing items that are made from recycled materials, aligning perfectly with Dulux Powder Coatings’ sustainability goals.

Using powder waste, Transmutation have found a way to turn this into plastic feedstock that can be used to displace virgin plastic in products. This is known as PostPrime Plastic™ pellet feedstock and the first product produced using this material is a Bar Chair.

What is a Bar Chair?

PostPrime Plastic™ Bar Chairs are used to support reinforcing bar / mesh when placing concrete. Additionally, bar chairs help to ensure the correct concrete cover is poured as per design specifications.

Why PostPrime™ Bar Chairs?

In addition to providing a sustainable solution to ordinary Bar Chairs, Transmutations’s PostPrime Plastic™ Bar Chairs are GECA certified. The GECA certification indicates that a product has been assessed from a whole of life perspective as an environmentally preferable product. In addition, this product provides the following benefits:

• GECA Certified. For more information visit the GECA website.
• Provides all ESG credentials: Full facts sheet and full product tracking.
• Able to be recycled once its life in the concrete element is complete.
• Provides a circular economy outcome, reducing energy usage and carbon emissions.
• Ultra sturdy for supporting concrete reinforcing mesh.
• Quick to install with moulded seating preventing any unwanted movement.
• No metallic iron content to cause staining (pre concrete placement).
• Capable of supporting laser screed machines such as or similar to S-485 Laser Screed.
• AS/NZS 2425:2015 compliant to 200kg test rating*.
• The 50/65mm Bar Chair is available in a box of 20 or carton of 200.
• 100% Australian made and owned.

Plus, Transmutation is the first manufacturer of Bar Chairs from environmentally certified recycled plastic.

Contact us for more information.

Contact our Dulux Advice and Specification Team on:

• Phone: 13 24 99
• Email: powders.advice@dulux.com.au

Or visit the Transmutation website for information on the Transmutation Bar Chairs or any technical specifications on the product contact Brad Scott from Transmutation on 0414 730 106.

Australian Micro Recyclers Association (AMRA)

Dulux Powder Coatings are proud members of the Australian Micro Recyclers Association (AMRA), an organisation that effectively represents and assists all MicroRecyclers, Processors, Manufacturers, Retailers, Mould and Tool makers and support businesses in small to medium size, decentralised operations around Australia.

The Association aims at dramatically increasing decentralised recycling and manufacturing around Australia by removing barriers to entry, assisting and mentoring new businesses in this space and then representing all member businesses to government and other industry stakeholders.

To learn more about AMRA, visit their website.

*Reference: SRG Global test report 173701-1