Israeli start-up UBQ will recycle Israeli waste into Indian car parts

• Published date: 06 December 2020
• Date: 06 December 2020
• Author: IDAN ZONSHINE

Motherson, an Indian-Japanese partnership, is India's largest manufacturer of spare parts and a world leader in sales with $8.8 billion of revenue per year. The company has factories in 41 countries that manufacture a variety of spare parts for vehicles, including mirrors, electric cables and more.

According to the agreement, the Israeli raw material will be incorporated into the company's products as a substitute for plastic, in order to reduce the carbon footprint of the company's production processes.

The UBQ Materials plant operates the first technology of its kind in the world that manages to turn all types of waste – including food scraps and plants, various plastics, cartons, coronavirus masks and even dirty diapers – into useful raw materials, called thermoplastics, to create surfaces, trash cans, shopping carts, pipes, 3D printing material and many other products.

Due to UBQ's treatment of waste types that are currently not being recycled, each ton of raw material processed in the plant prevents about 12 tons of carbon emissions and toxic gases from being emitted into the air, and helps companies achieve their goals in...