ACTIVITIES

Environment

Agripolyane places an emphasis on respecting the environment.

Our responsibility towards the environment influences the different steps of development and production.

Agripolyane is a member of the only group capable of covering its entire electrical consumption by its own production of renewable energy. Indeed, Plastika Kritis produces more than 48 million kWh of wind and photovoltaic energy.

Moreover, our production equipment is state-of-the-art and has been designed to reduce our energy needs.

We develop additives and several agricultural films which enable growers to reduce the use of phytosanitary products and to biologically combat specific viruses.

Other products in our range promote a natural increase in the yield of certain crops by manipulating particular parameters such as light and temperature which optimize the development of plants without the use of chemical agents. This encourages biological farming.

Along these same lines, our latest development regarding geomembrane is directly and naturally tied to the environmental cause. Its use not only enables the treatment of water storage in the agricultural world but also protects the ground-water tables against Lixivia which is caused by discharge grounds and mining zones.

Finally, Agripolyane integrates biodegradable materials into certain products with the aim of facilitating the recovery, treatment and sorting at the end of the product life. Biodegradability and compostability have become an essential part of our products’ features. Bio-sourced (plant-based) materials are also used to reduce the carbon footprint. Agripolyane is thus becoming one of the key European producers on the biodegradable products market.

Technology

Agripolyane’s facility stretches over a covered surface of 27000m² and has a capacity of 18000 tons/year. The flexibility provided by our German-designed production equipment allows us to be one of the most responsive production facilities in our domain.

Agripolyane benefits from leading-edge technology designed and developed at a group-level. Our process is classed as one of the most important in Europe and allows us to produce agricultural films of widths up to 18m and geomembrane with thicknesses of up to 2.5mm. The company is committed to continuous improvement regarding the intrinsic quality and use of our products by integrating new technologies : C-Folds, continuous gravimetric dosage, continuous thickness control, bar code tracing, …

We not only use new generation materials such as metallocene, but also traditional polymers like LDPE, LLDPE, HDPE and EVA. By taking advantage of the know-how of our group, we are able to manufacture all the additives required in-house, thus making us able to respond to different and specific needs on the market.

All the films and geomembranes are produced with co-extrusion tri-layer technology which consists of manufacturing three inseparable layers, each made with different polymers and different additives. This contributes to the quality of the product with its specific properties which produce optimum performance in the different domains required.

Quality - Research & Development

Our quality system follows the strict guidelines of our ISO 9001:2008 certification which covers everything from the development and production to the sales of our products.
Agripolyane houses our own accredited test laboratory which is equipped with state-of-the-art instruments which enable us to internally conduct all the tests required by various international norms. Our impressive test and development lab equipment enable us to measure : Optical properties (eg. hazemetre, opacimetre), Mechanical properties (eg. dynamometer with infrared camera, dynamometer for slow perforation, dart drop test), Physico-chemical properties (DSC, Melt index, UV and IR spectrophotometre, accelerated aging cell, stress cracking, anti-fog cell). Our laboratory equipment also includes a test extruder to allow us to design and build your product from start to finish.

Records concerning production, quality control and raw materials are archived for each product batch allowing us to guarantee complete traceability.

Agripolyane is the only producer in the world to be totally integrated in our business sector.

Our R&D department is based on the development and manufacturing of additives, products and process (with an Engineering group dedicated to each building trade) and agronomical yields.

Thanks to this synergy and a high technological watch within the group, we have been developing products recognized for their efficiency in their field : films dedicated to flower-growing, special films for berries, high resistant films to pesticides, the famous cooling film named Celloclim® (micro-bubbles film)…