THE BIODEGRADABLE FABLE

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ARMOR PRODUCTS ARE RECYCLABLE

Recycling is one of the best ways to positively impact our environment and our human race. Recycling helps to reduce the pollution caused by waste and reduces the need for raw materials to be used. Huge amounts of energy are needed when making products from raw materials, while recycling requires much less energy and therefore preserves our natural resources. When finished using an ARMOR film or paper, recycle it!

RECYCLED CONTENT IS MONEY WELL SPENT

ARMOR utilizes recycled content in our products whenever possible, and we do it without sacrificing their integrity or performance. As recycled resins continue to improve in cleanliness and recycling continues to gain more ground each year, utilizing recycled resin content makes enormous sense.

• By 2020, we expect to have a minimum of 30% post-consumer recycled content in all ARMOR POLY ® VCI films • ARMOR already uses post-industrial recycled content in our films (check out our innovative FOUNDRY Film™ as an example) • Recycling 1 ton of paper (such as ARMOR WRAP ® ) saves 17 mature trees, 7,000 gallons of water, 3 cubic yards of landfill space, 2 barrels of oil and the energy equivalent of 165 gallons of gasoline

SOURCE REDUCTION SAVES OIL PRODUCTION

Source Reduction (or waste prevention) is the number one recommendation of the United States EPA in their Hierarchy of Integrated Waste Management

In 2005, ARMOR was the first VCI manufacturer to use innovative engineering to bring multi-layer (co-extruded) films to the market. ARMOR debuted the DEFENDER™, a three-layer film that strategically places VCI on the inside, closest to the metal part, and added unique barriers, allowing the film to be down-gauged by 25-30%. Source reduction at its finest! We like to use the incandescent vs. LED bulb analogy to help explain the concept of source reduction when it comes to mono film vs. DEFENDER™.

INCANDESCENT BULB

Gives off 90% of energy as heat, not light

VCI MONO FILM

• 70% of VCI not used • Traditional VCI film • Barrier by thickness only

LED BULB

Uses 75-80% less energy than an incandescent bulb

DEFENDER FILM TM

• Uses 25% less material • VCI only where you need it • Innovative barrier layers