UK – UBQ Materials, a climate tech developer specializing in advanced materials made from waste, has extended its footprint into the UK through a distributor agreement with Plastribution, a prominent polymers distributor.
This strategic partnership empowers Plastribution to offer UBQ’s recently launched Sustainable Product Portfolio to customers in the UK and Ireland.
Mike Boswell, Managing Director of Plastribution, underscored the UK’s accelerating sustainable transformation and emphasized UBQ’s waste-to-materials approach as a rapid pathway for companies to achieve ambitious sustainability goals across the value chain.
He highlighted the breadth of UBQ’s product range, which seamlessly integrates performance, sustainability benefits, and cost-effectiveness, showcasing the company’s dedication to meeting customer needs.
The collaboration enriches Plastribution’s sustainable materials offering, granting access to UBQ’s comprehensive product portfolio engineered to meet diverse sustainability goals.
These goals include fossil-based plastic replacement, waste diversion, increased post-consumer recycled content, and emissions removal.
Even a small integration of UBQ material, as little as 5%, can yield measurable progress toward these objectives. Notably, all materials offered will originate from UBQ’s new industrial-scale facility in the Netherlands.
Patricia Mishic O’Brien, CCO of UBQ Materials, highlighted Plastribution’s focus on promoting sustainable material usage as a pivotal factor in selecting them as a partner.
She expressed confidence in Plastribution’s technical expertise, extensive customer base, and robust distribution channels to propel UBQ as a leader in advanced, circular materials.
Plastribution will introduce UBQ’s climate-positive products to customers across diverse industries, including building and construction, automotive, logistics, supply chain, and consumer durables.
By integrating UBQ into their material strategies, companies in these sectors can drive aggressive waste and emissions reduction, promote circularity, and facilitate fossil-fuel replacement as part of broader corporate sustainability initiatives.
This collaboration underscores both companies’ commitment to advancing sustainability and circularity in material usage.
In September, UBQ Materials announced the successful closure of a US$70 million funding round for global expansion.
Led by Eden Global Partners, with participation from existing investors such as TPG Rise Climate, TPG’s Rise Fund, Battery Ventures, and M&G’s Catalyst strategy, this investment will bolster the company’s commercial, sales, and marketing endeavors across Europe and North America.
UBQ Materials specializes in creating bio-based thermoplastic, UBQ, from residual household waste diverted from landfills or incineration, offering a recyclable alternative to fossil fuel-based plastics.
The company is currently focused on establishing an industrial-scale facility in Bergen Op Zoom, Netherlands, with an annual production capacity of 80,000 metric tonnes of UBQ, facilitating the conversion of 104,600 metric tonnes of waste annually into a valuable new raw material.
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