Nextchem showcases circularity at Milano Design Week 2026: NX Replast™ technology enhances recycled plastics, elevating them into a design icon with a new 100% recycled urban transport seat
PRESS RELEASEMilan, 21 April 2026 – At Milano Design Week 2026, sustainability takes shape and becomes a tangible experience. Nextchem, a MAIRE Group company and leader of the Sustainable Technology Solutions business unit, is taking part in the exhibition-event “The New State of Materials”, curated by Materially, together with Lazzerini, showcasing a concrete example of circular economy applied to transport design.
Taking centre stage at the exhibition, hosted at Stecca3 in Milan’s Isola district, is a public transport seat made from 100% recycled plastic, developed through the collaboration between Nextchem and Lazzerini. The project brings together technology and Made in Italy design, demonstrating how post-consumer plastics can be transformed into a high-performance material that combines aesthetics, functionality and durability, and can be reintroduced into the production cycle at end-of-life.
The journey starts with post-consumer plastic, regenerated through Nextchem’s proprietary NX Replast™ technology. This is where MyReplast Industries comes into play: a Nextchem company and an advanced industrial player in the European plastics recycling landscape, headquartered in Bedizzole (Brescia). The technology applied to process the feedstock ensures a very high-quality end product – the recycled polymer – engineered to meet the specific requirements of each project. NX ReplastTM enhances the properties of the incoming plastic (upcycling), enabling products to access premium, high value-added markets and meeting Lazzerini’s requirements in terms of strength, durability and aesthetics. The result is an item designed to last and to return, at end-of-life, to MyReplast Industries, thereby closing the loop.
Fabio Fritelli, Managing Director of Nextchem, commented: “The transition becomes real only when technology can be translated into concrete industrial solutions. Our role is to enable this step forward: turning waste into a valuable resource and making circularity a daily experience – scalable, replicable and measurable – without compromising performance.”
