Kimteks Poliüretan (Kimpur) has obtained ReMade certification for five products aimed at the insulated sandwich panel market: three polyester polyols and two rigid polyurethane foam systems. The certified materials contain up to 40% post-consumer recycled PET by weight, varying by product. Italian certification body ICMQ issued certificate RE1219, valid from 15 July 2026 to 14 July 2029 subject to successful surveillance audits. The assessment examined the origin of the recycled PET inputs, their traceability through the supply chain and the mass-balance calculation methodology against production records. Kimpur says it has completed a first commercial shipment of the certified products to a European sandwich panel manufacturer.
The certified scope is narrow and specific, which is what makes it commercially usable: three polyester polyols and two rigid polyurethane foam systems, all intended principally for insulated sandwich panel manufacture. The materials are produced at the company's Düzce plant in Türkiye, where, according to Kimpur's own release, PET-based polyester polyol production was established in 2025. The certificate runs for three years, but it is conditional on surveillance audits, so the recycled-content claim has to be re-evidenced rather than granted once.
What ICMQ audited matters more than the headline percentage. Rather than testing a finished panel, the assessment followed the post-consumer recycled PET back to its origin, tracked it through the supply chain and checked the mass-balance calculation methodology against production records. Tuncay Halat, Kimpur's vice general manager for sales, marketing and sustainability, said that ReMade certification "independently verifies the ratio of recycled content used in our products and its traceability throughout the supply chain."
PU Magazine International puts the commercial rationale in general terms: the certification should help European customers demonstrate recycled content and comply with environmental requirements applying to construction products and public procurement. The trade publication FAPU is more specific, reporting that it supports customers in meeting Italy's CAM minimum environmental criteria for public procurement. Kimpur adds that the certified materials perform comparably to conventional products and require no modification to customers' production lines, though that is the company's own statement rather than part of the audited scope, which covered recycled content and traceability.
For anyone buying or formulating rigid systems for panel lines, the signal is that recycled content is becoming a document rather than a marketing line. A European panel maker asked for verified recycled content in a tender cannot satisfy that requirement unless its system supplier holds a certificate with a traceable mass balance behind it. The questions worth asking are which specific grades a certificate covers, whether the recycled content is physically present or allocated by mass balance, and what happens to the claim if a surveillance audit is failed. Panel producers exporting into the EU should expect to face that paperwork in the next tender cycle rather than in several years' time.