Shark Solutions

Shark Solutions is a Danish company that separates polyvinyl butyral (PVB) from laminated glass using a patented technology. The recycled PVB is non-toxic and can be used in a variety of sectors.

There are over 1 billion cars in the world and this number is expected to double in 20 years. However, glass used in automobiles are simply disposed in landfills where they do not degrade for a million years. Useful materials like PVB present in the glass go waste.

The company’s Shark Glass Separator (SGS) system offers a cost-effective method to separate PBV from laminated glass from car windscreens and architectural glass. The process is cost-effective compared to the traditional methods, according to the company.

PVB has valuable technical properties such as binding, flexibility and sound dampening. It can be used as a coating material for lumber, metals, concrete, leather and on gloss surfaces.

It can also be used in paints, adhesives, flooring and in dyeing clothes. Glass cloths made from PVB can be used to improve the performance of glass fiber reinforced plastic.

The SGS system can process 20 tons per hour. Its glass cullets are less than 10 millimetres in size allowing for greater variety of uses. The company has plants in the United States and Europe and its products are Cradle-to-Cradle Certified®. They are currently processing 40,000 tons of material every year. The company also has ISO 9001 certification from Bureau Veritas of Denmark.

The company has received investments from Circularity Capital. The company is part owned by Blue Equity, a private equity funded by Danish companies and PFA pension fund. In 2019, it also joined the United Nations SDG Accelerator for SMEs.