Plastral is Australia’s leading and most iconic plastic supplier in the oceanic region. Founded in 1946, we are still proudly privately owned and operated, celebrating 70 years of loyal commitment to customers, manufacturers and industries in the region.
We operate throughout Australasia, with offices in 5 cities in the region. Our office locations are Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth & Auckland. These offices enable the company to service our diverse range of customers quickly and efficiently, regardless of their location.
Plastral’s loyal relationships with a diverse range of world-leading suppliers has proven key to our success story. Some of these supplier relationships span more than half a century, with the core value of loyalty permeating through all our dealings; from employees to customers.
What we do
With over 3000 product lines, we undeniably offer one of the regions most comprehensive ranges of products. Being the exclusive distributor of the world’s leading Acrylic brand, PLEXIGLAS®, we specialise in the supply of Industrial and Architectural plastic products, and are regularly specified as the material supplier on large scale Government Enterprise projects. Not limiting ourselves to one plastic solution, we are also the preferred supplier for Engineering Plastics where we are the exclusive supplier for the premium German brand Simona®, a name synonymous with quality. In the Chemicals & Polymers division, Plastral is also the market leader, supplying large commodity raw materials such as surface coatings, oil processors and plastic additives, such as epoxy resins. Finally, our product offering extends further into the industrial space, supplying the world’s leading Plastic Welding Equipment brand, Leister®, of which we also have the exclusive rights to in the Oceanic Region.
Our products are split into 6 main divisions as outlined below. Please click the field that interests you below to find out more information about our product offering in that division.
Architectural Products
Engineering Plastics
Specialty Polymers
Specialty Chemicals
Plastic Welding Equipment
Bioplastics
Mater-Bi- Biodegradable and Compostable Plastic
Mater-Bi: the biodegradable and compostable plastic produced by Novamont in Italy
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Novamont Group (Italy) is world leader in the development and production of biodegradable and compostable plastic polymers and biochemicals through the integration of chemistry, environment and agriculture.
Since 1994, Plastral has exclusively distributed Mater-Bi biopolymers in Australia and New Zealand.
In over twenty-five years of research and innovation, Novamont has developed the Mater-Bi innovative family of biodegradable and compostable plastic, based on renewable raw materials and obtained by means of proprietary technologies in the field of starches, cellulose, vegetable oils and their combinations, which currently counts on a portfolio of approximately 1,000 patents.
Mater-Bi biodegradable and compostable plastic materials are able to provide solutions for specific environmental issues while combining product quality and performance with an efficient use of resources.
Mater-Bi’s biodegradability and compostability properties make it particularly suitable for applications with little probability of recycling, when recycling happens to be too expensive, or when plastics have a high probability of contaminating the natural environment or organic waste. If considered in connection with waste collection systems, it can allow optimal organic waste management, and contribute to the development of virtuous systems, transforming local issues into business opportunities with significant advantages throughout the entire production-consumption-disposal cycle.
Mater-Bi resin is suitable for processing by the most common conversion technologies: blowing, casting, extrusion/thermoforming and injection moulding machines for traditional plastics and is currently used for the production of several applications such as:
flexible packaging
waste bags
carrier bags
agricultural mulch film
food service ware products
Novamont promotes a bioeconomy model based not only on the efficient and sustainable use of renewable resources, but also as a factor for territorial regeneration. The company’s innovation strategy is based on the concept of biorefinery integrated in the local area, converting industrial sites that are decommissioned or are no longer competitive and maintaining the specific characteristics and biodiversity of the territories, in partnership with farmers and all the other stakeholders of the value chain.
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