SMX and Tradepro Advance "Material Efficiency" in Plastics Recycling
SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) and Tradepro have announced a strategic collaboration to enhance plastics recycling efficiency through molecular traceability. The partnership integrates SMX's molecular marking technology with Tradepro's recycling network to provide verifiable recycled content data across various plastic applications.
Key achievements include FDA compliance for food-grade packaging, end-to-end marker durability, non-destructive verification capabilities, and accurate quantification of recycled content percentages. The collaboration aims to reduce U.S. dependency on foreign materials, cut transportation costs, and enable transparent sustainability reporting through blockchain technology.
SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) e Tradepro hanno annunciato una collaborazione strategica per migliorare l'efficienza della riciclabilità delle plastiche tramite tracciabilità molecolare. La partnership integra la tecnologia di marcatura molecolare di SMX con la rete di riciclo di Tradepro per fornire dati verificabili sul contenuto riciclato in diverse applicazioni plastiche.
Tra i principali risultati: conformità FDA per imballaggi alimentari, durabilità del marcatore end-to-end, capacità di verifica non distruttiva e quantificazione accurata delle percentuali di contenuto riciclato. L'obiettivo della collaborazione è ridurre la dipendenza degli Stati Uniti da materiali esteri, ridurre i costi di trasporto e consentire una rendicontazione di sostenibilità trasparente tramite tecnologia blockchain.
SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) y Tradepro han anunciado una colaboración estratégica para mejorar la eficiencia del reciclaje de plásticos mediante la trazabilidad molecular. La asociación integra la tecnología de marcado molecular de SMX con la red de reciclaje de Tradepro para proporcionar datos verificables de contenido reciclado en diversas aplicaciones plásticas.
Entre los logros clave se encuentran cumplimiento de la FDA para envases de grado alimentario, durabilidad de la marca de extremo a extremo, capacidades de verificación no destructivas y una cuantificación precisa de los porcentajes de contenido reciclado. La colaboración busca reducir la dependencia de EE. UU. de materiales extranjeros, disminuir los costos de transporte y permitir una informes de sostenibilidad transparentes mediante la tecnología blockchain.
SMX(NASDAQ:SMX)와 Tradepro가 분자 추적 가능성을 통한 플라스틱 재활용 효율성 향상을 목표로 전략적 협업을 발표했습니다. 이 파트너십은 SMX의 분자 마킹 기술과 Tradepro의 재활용 네트워크를 통합하여 다양한 플라스틱 응용 분야에서 검증 가능한 재활용 원료 데이터를 제공합니다.
주요 성과로는 식품 등급 포장재에 대한 FDA 규정 준수, 엔드 투 엔드 마커의 내구성, 파손되지 않는 검증 기능, 재활용 원료 비율의 정확한 정량화가 포함됩니다. 이 협업의 목표는 미국의 외국 재료 의존도를 줄이고 운송 비용을 절감하며 블록체인 기술을 통한 투명한 지속 가능성 보고를 가능하게 하는 것입니다.
SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) et Tradepro ont annoncé une collaboration stratégique pour améliorer l'efficacité du recyclage des plastiques grâce à la traçabilité moléculaire. Le partenariat intègre la technologie de marquage moléculaire de SMX avec le réseau de recyclage de Tradepro afin de fournir des données vérifiables sur le contenu recyclé dans diverses applications plastiques.
Parmi les principaux achievements figurent la conformité FDA pour les emballages alimentaires, la durabilité du marqueur de bout en bout, les capacités de vérification non destructive et la quantification précise des pourcentages de contenu recyclé. La collaboration vise à réduire la dépendance des États-Unis vis-à-vis des matériaux étrangers, à diminuer les coûts de transport et à permettre une traçabilité durable et transparente via la technologie blockchain.
SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) und Tradepro haben eine strategische Zusammenarbeit angekündigt, um die Effizienz des Plastikrecyclings durch molekulare Rückverfolgbarkeit zu verbessern. Die Partnerschaft integriert SMX's Molekularmarkierungstechnologie mit Tradepros Recycling-Netzwerk, um verifizierbare recycelte Inhaltsstoffe in verschiedenen Kunststoffanwendungen bereitzustellen.
Zu den wichtigsten Errungenschaften gehören FDA-Konformität für Lebensmittelverpackungen, End-to-End-Markierer-Dauerfestigkeit, zerstörungsfreie Verifizierungsfähigkeiten und eine präzise Quantifizierung der Prozentsätze recycelter Inhaltsstoffe. Die Zusammenarbeit zielt darauf ab, die Abhängigkeit der USA von fremden Materialien zu reduzieren, Transportkosten zu senken und transparente Nachhaltigkeitsberichterstattung durch Blockchain-Technologie zu ermöglichen.
SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) و Tradepro يعلنان عن تعاون استراتيجي لتعزيز كفاءة إعادة تدوير البلاستيك من خلال التتبع الجزيئي. الشراكة تدمج تكنولوجيا علامة جزيئية الخاصة بـ SMX مع شبكة إعادة التدوير لدى Tradepro لتوفير بيانات قابلة للتحقق حول المحتوى المعاد تدويره عبر تطبيقات بلاستيكية متعددة.
من بين الإنجازات الرئيسية: الامتثال لـ FDA لعبوات الغذاء، ومتانة علامة المادة من الطرف إلى الطرف، وإمكانيات التحقق غير التدميري، وتحديد نسبة المحتوى المعاد تدويره بدقة. تهدف الشراكة إلى تقليل الاعتماد الأميركي على المواد الأجنبية، وخفض تكاليف النقل، وتمكين تقارير استدامة شفافة باستخدام تقنية البلوكتشين.
SMX（纳斯达克股票代码：SMX） 与 Tradepro 宣布建立战略合作，通过分子追踪提高塑料回收效率。该伙伴关系将 SMX 的分子标记技术与 Tradepro 的回收网络相结合，提供可验证的回收含量数据，覆盖多种塑料应用。
主要成就包括对食品级包装的 FDA 合规、端到端的标记耐久性、无损验证能力以及回收含量百分比的准确量化。此合作旨在降低美国对外来材料的依赖、降低运输成本，并通过区块链技术实现透明的可持续性报告。
- FDA approval achieved for molecular marker in food-grade packaging applications
- Successfully demonstrated end-to-end marker durability across all production stages
- Technology enables accurate detection and quantification of recycled content percentages
- Partnership could reduce U.S. dependency on foreign materials and transportation costs
- No immediate revenue projections or financial metrics provided
- Implementation timeline and scaling details not specified
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SMX-Tradepro partnership enhances plastics recycling verification, creates competitive advantage in sustainable materials market through molecular traceability technology.
This strategic collaboration between SMX and Tradepro represents a significant advancement in solving a critical market challenge: the verification gap in recycled plastics. By embedding molecular markers at the material level, the partnership creates a digital certification system that transforms how recycled content is verified and traced throughout supply chains.
The technical achievement here is substantial. The companies have successfully integrated SMX's molecular marker technology into Tradepro's rPET resin while maintaining FDA compliance for food-contact applications—a notoriously difficult regulatory hurdle. The non-destructive verification capability allows for continuous authentication without compromising product integrity, while quantitative accuracy enables precise measurement of recycled content percentages.
From a market perspective, this partnership addresses multiple industry pain points simultaneously. First, it helps manufacturers meet increasingly stringent regulatory requirements around recycled content claims. Second, it provides a potential cost advantage through more efficient domestic sourcing, reducing reliance on imported materials and associated transportation costs. Third, it responds to changing consumer preferences, particularly among younger demographics who demand verifiable sustainability credentials.
What makes this particularly valuable is the combination of Tradepro's established recycling infrastructure (35+ years in operation) with SMX's digital verification platform. This creates an integrated solution that could become an industry standard for materials efficiency—moving beyond simple recycling to a comprehensive circular economy model where materials maintain their value across multiple lifecycles.
Integrating molecular traceability into recycled plastics to deliver transparent, auditable, and regulatory-ready reporting-to bridge the recycled content gap, lower costs for American companies, and empower new generations of consumers to choose sustainable products.
NEW YORK, NY AND MIAMI, FL / ACCESS Newswire / October 1, 2025 / SMX (Security Matters) PLC (NASDAQ:SMX), a pioneer in digitizing physical objects for a circular economy, and Tradepro Inc., a U.S.-based leader in plastics recycling and distribution, today announced a strategic collaboration to accelerate the adoption of sustainable plastics across multiple applications. By combining SMX's molecular traceability platform with Tradepro's extensive recycling and distribution network, the two companies aim to deliver a new level of material efficiency and supply chain reliability to the U.S. plastics market.
Bridging the Recycled Content Gap
The collaboration is designed to bridge the demand gap for recycled content across a wide spectrum of plastics-not limited to PET-ensuring U.S. companies can access verifiable recycled materials for packaging, manufacturing, and consumer goods. With SMX's molecular markers embedded at the material level, brand owners, regulators, and auditors would gain trusted, auditable data on recycled content percentages and product origin.
Unlocking Efficiency and Reducing Foreign Dependency
Beyond sustainability, the collaboration is being positioned as a cost-saving and efficiency driver for American companies. By enabling localized sourcing and transparent verification of recycled materials, Tradepro and SMX are looking to help reduce reliance on imported chemicals and materials, while cutting transportation costs tied to overseas and inland supply chains. This is expected to create a stronger, more resilient U.S. plastics ecosystem.
Meeting Consumer Expectations
With a significant cross-section of the U.S. population placing a premium on sustainable product choices, the collaboration is expected to create an industry standout opportunity. By delivering plastics that are digitally certified for recycled content and origin, Tradepro and SMX's collaboration would enable American consumers to make confident, sustainability-driven purchasing decisions-supporting a new generation's demand for authenticity and accountability.
Key Outcomes of the Collaboration
FDA Compliance: SMX's molecular marker was integrated into Tradepro's rPET resin in line with FDA regulations for Food Contact Substances (21 CFR), confirming its industrial applicability for food-grade packaging.
End-to-End Durability: The marker was consistently detected across all process stages-resin, compounding, and final bottle production-proving its durability and reliability.
Non-Destructive Verification: Using SMX's proprietary reader, marked rPET was identified and traced post-production without altering product performance or appearance.
Quantitative Accuracy: SMX technology accurately detected varying recycled-content percentages in Tradepro's rPET, providing a robust quality and compliance tool for the supply chain.
Digital Certification: The system is designed to enable Tradepro to authenticate origin, quantify recycled content in real time, and deliver auditable reports to regulators, auditors, brand owners, and customers.
Steven Schmutter, President of Tradepro Inc., said:
"For more than 35 years, Tradepro has supplied recycled plastics to industries worldwide. Partnering with SMX allows us to take the next step-delivering not only high-quality recycled materials but also the verified data that American companies and consumers are asking for. Together, we are expanding recycled content into new applications and building a more efficient, reliable U.S. market for sustainable plastics."
Haggai Alon, CEO & Founder of SMX, added:
"This partnership is about more than traceability-it's about efficiency. By embedding molecular identity into recycled plastics and pairing it with a digital certification platform, we're enabling American companies to cut costs, reduce foreign dependency, and meet the expectations of younger generations who want sustainable products. This is how material efficiency becomes a competitive advantage."
Driving a New Industry Standard
By embedding traceability at the molecular level and linking it to a secure blockchain record, SMX and Tradepro are laying the groundwork for a new industry reporting standard-one built on verifiable data rather than self-declaration. This aligns with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's "Sustainable Management of Plastics" program and responds to growing demands for transparent, auditable circularity practices.
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About SMX
As global businesses face new and complex challenges relating to carbon neutrality and meeting new governmental and regional regulations and standards, SMX is able to offer players along the value chain access to its marking, tracking, measuring and digital platform technology to transition more successfully to a low-carbon economy.
About Tradepro Inc.
For over 35 years, Tradepro Inc. has been a trusted partner in the plastics recycling industry. Expected for 2025, Tradepro Inc. will procure and distribute over 90,000 metric tons of recycled plastic materials. Tradepro Inc. specialize in the procurement and distribution of plastic raw materials. Their foundation is built on unwavering reliability. They are driven to consistently deliver the highest quality recycled materials to their global customer base. Tradepro Inc. envision a world where resources are valued, ethically sourced, and repurposed towards a cleaner, greener planet of tomorrow.
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