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AK GROUP, are one of Turkey's leading supplier of plastic raw materials. We continue on our way with an understanding of international trade with our sector experience of more than a quarter of a century, our expert staff and our offices in Istanbul and Dubai, especially our Mersin head office. We always follow the sectoral events in the country and around the world and serve our business partners from A to Z.

The main ingredient in most plastic material is a derivative from crude oil and natural gas.

There are many different types of plastics – clear, cloudy, solid colour, flexible, rigid, soft, etc.

Plastic products are often a polymer resin which is then then mixed with a blend of additives (See polymer vs. plastic). The additives are important as each of them are used to provide plastic with targeted optimum properties such as toughness, flexibility, elasticity, colour or to make them safer and hygienic to use for a particular application (ref).

What type of plastic a product is made from can be sometimes be identified by looking at the number at the bottom of plastic containers. Some of the main types of plastic and the parent monomer is given below (Table 1). This table shows the types of plastic and the monomers that make up the plastic.

Table 1. Main polymer types, monomers and its chemical structures

Resin identification code

Polymers

Monomers

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PETE

Polyethylene terephthalate (PET)