Feasibility & Desirability: How Bosch built a drill from post-consumer recycled plastics
Can recycled plastics match virgin quality? Isabelle Gola on Bosch's pilot: 17-year-old tools, 500K data points, drop tests, same price point.
In our new series Recycled Plastics for Premium Brands, you’ll discover how manufacturers can secure reliable and sustainable material supply by building circular supply chains from waste plastics. Across four episodes, this series addresses the practical requirements for using technical recyclates in premium applications, including organisational alignment, technical feasibility, market acceptance, and commercial viability.
The series opens with Fridolin Pflüger, Co-Founder and CEO of HolyPoly, who outlines key market dynamics and technological developments shaping circular material strategies in engineering plastics. This is followed by three case studies from Bosch Power Tools, Vorwerk, and V-ZUG. Each case examines how closed-loop systems are developed for premium products, from collection and sortation to material qualification, cost parity, and maintaining quality standards.
Recycled Plastics for Premium Brands is sponsored by HolyPoly, a circular service provider and material supplier specialising in recycled engineering plastics. HolyPoly supports brands in developing application-specific material loops by accessing post-consumer waste streams, covering areas such as collection concepts, reverse logistics, material analysis, and recycling process development. The work focuses on converting discarded products into industrial-grade recycled materials suitable for technical applications.
Find out more about HolyPoly here: https://holypoly.co/
3 episodes in this series
Can recycled plastics match virgin quality? Isabelle Gola on Bosch's pilot: 17-year-old tools, 500K data points, drop tests, same price point.
Which barriers had to be addressed, including quality perceptions, pricing constraints, and internal skepticism. Which factors help create sustainability impact.
This conversation explores future of plastics recycling, highlighting challenges and opportunities, impact of regulatory changes, supply and demand dynamics.