SHANGHAI, May 25, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- On 14 May 2026, at the 9th Intelligence Summit and BSI's 125th Anniversary Celebration hosted by BSI, Safaricom Limuru Data Centre achieved BSI Data Centre Facilities Mark of Trust. The certification confirms that the facility's capabilities across availability, security, energy efficiency and sustainability have been independently verified against rigorous international benchmarks. It also represents a milestone for Africa's digital infrastructure sector, signaling a decisive move towards international standards alignment and the establishment of a credible digital trust framework.
BSI Data Centre Mark of Trust: Building a Quantifiable Trust Benchmark with International Standards
The BSI Data Centre Mark of Trust (DCMoT) is the world's first integrated data centre verification scheme. Built on a modular architecture, it evaluates an organisation's design, construction, operation and continual improvement capabilities through three lenses — policy, governance and operational practice — enabling organisations to demonstrate governance maturity and operational resilience in a structured, progressive manner.
Anchored in international standards such as ISO/IEC 22237, the Mark of Trust delivers independent, transparent and rigorous assessments across five core dimensions: availability and protection, business continuity, energy management, water management and carbon management. The framework rests on the ISO system and relevant global regulatory structures, giving the data centre industry an authoritative, internationally recognisable assessment architecture that commands a high degree of trust.
Certification Empowerment: Forging a Trust Cornerstone and Growth Engine for Africa's Digital Transformation
Achieving the Data Centre Mark of Trust is both a strong endorsement of Safaricom Limuru Data Centre's infrastructure and governance capabilities, and a practical, internationally aligned benchmark for data centre operators across Africa. At a time when artificial intelligence, cloud computing and critical digital services are accelerating rapidly, data centres have evolved from back-end IT infrastructure into essential hubs underpinning the digital economy and the resilience of critical national infrastructure. This certification sends a clear signal of maturity to the market, and is expected to strengthen international customer and investor confidence in Africa's data centre sector.
Moving forward, BSI will continue to apply the Mark of Trust's modular verification architecture, working alongside global data centre operators and value chain partners to drive meaningful improvements in security, resilience and sustainability. This work will help establish a solid, trustworthy foundation for the long-term growth of artificial intelligence and the wider digital economy.
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- "Full compatibility" verified with PET bottle recycling streams, proving recyclability from the material design stage
SK chemicals' plastic materials have secured verification of their compatibility as feedstock for recycling processes in Europe.
SEOUL, South Korea, May 26, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- SK chemicals announced on May 26 that its copolyester ECOTRIA CLARO and its PET-based SKYPET product family have been recognized by RecyClass, a European recycling assessment body, as recyclable within the PET recycling stream.
RecyClass is a non-profit, cross-industry initiative established to advance the circular economy for plastics in Europe. It operates a structured framework to evaluate and certify the recyclability of plastic materials in accordance with evaluation protocols and design guidelines.
In line with the RecyClass framework, SK chemicals obtained the Technology Approval (TA), an assessment that verifies whether a material, when introduced into actual recycling processes, can be reliably used as recycled feedstock without disrupting existing operations. The TA serves as a key benchmark for assessing a material's compatibility with the recycling process when used as feedstock for post-consumer recycled plastics. Materials whose compatibility with recycling processes has not been verified can cause process disruptions or quality degradation, potentially impeding actual recycling.
With this outcome, SK chemicals has secured authoritative verification of the value of its diverse polyester portfolio as recycling feedstock, spanning from copolyesters to PET and from recycled to virgin materials. While recycled materials are commonly evaluated by whether and to what extent they contain recycled feedstock reprocessed from waste plastics, the industry also regards the question of whether discarded waste plastics can themselves be processed back into feedstock as an equally critical measure of recyclability.
For example, even if a material contains 100% recycled PET, it cannot contribute to a continuous circular structure if it fails to be recycled again after use due to process-related issues, ultimately ending up discarded or landfilled. For this reason, experts emphasize that building a sustainable recycling ecosystem requires materials to satisfy two conditions: incorporating recycled content (Recycled) and being recyclable themselves (Recyclable).
Ahn Jae-hyun, CEO of SK chemicals, said, "This verification is an official endorsement of our materials' circularity as feedstock, which represents one pillar of the complete circular structure we are building. To establish a sustainable circular economy, we will continue to accumulate technical expertise in recycling and strengthen our competitiveness across the entire process, from feedstock to commercialization, while expanding collaboration with European customers and other stakeholders."
The seven products that received the assessment include five copolyester products in the ECOTRIA CLARO family and two products in the general-purpose SKYPET family. The five ECOTRIA CLARO products, namely ECOTRIA CLARO 100, ECOTRIA CLARO 200, ECOTRIA CLARO 300, ECOTRIA CLARO 100 CR50N, and ECOTRIA CLARO 200 CR50N, received the Full Compatible grade, indicating they can be recycled together within the PET recycling process without any restrictions across the entire workflow. The two SKYPET products, SKYPET BR and SKYPET BR-V, received the Limited Compatible grade, meaning they can be recycled under specific process conditions.
Earlier, last year, SK chemicals had secured the highest Class A rating from RecyClass through its Letter of Compatibility (LoC) for a PET bottle made with SKYPET CR, its circular-recycled PET. This assessment evaluates whether a container's structural design is compatible with existing recycling processes and serves as a benchmark for determining whether the container can be processed without issues during actual recycling. The bottle incorporated SKYPET CR BB and SKYPET CR BL.
- "Full compatibility" verified with PET bottle recycling streams, proving recyclability from the material design stage
SK chemicals' plastic materials have secured verification of their compatibility as feedstock for recycling processes in Europe.
SEOUL, South Korea, May 26, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- SK chemicals announced on May 26 that its copolyester ECOTRIA CLARO and its PET-based SKYPET product family have been recognized by RecyClass, a European recycling assessment body, as recyclable within the PET recycling stream.
RecyClass is a non-profit, cross-industry initiative established to advance the circular economy for plastics in Europe. It operates a structured framework to evaluate and certify the recyclability of plastic materials in accordance with evaluation protocols and design guidelines.
In line with the RecyClass framework, SK chemicals obtained the Technology Approval (TA), an assessment that verifies whether a material, when introduced into actual recycling processes, can be reliably used as recycled feedstock without disrupting existing operations. The TA serves as a key benchmark for assessing a material's compatibility with the recycling process when used as feedstock for post-consumer recycled plastics. Materials whose compatibility with recycling processes has not been verified can cause process disruptions or quality degradation, potentially impeding actual recycling.
With this outcome, SK chemicals has secured authoritative verification of the value of its diverse polyester portfolio as recycling feedstock, spanning from copolyesters to PET and from recycled to virgin materials. While recycled materials are commonly evaluated by whether and to what extent they contain recycled feedstock reprocessed from waste plastics, the industry also regards the question of whether discarded waste plastics can themselves be processed back into feedstock as an equally critical measure of recyclability.
For example, even if a material contains 100% recycled PET, it cannot contribute to a continuous circular structure if it fails to be recycled again after use due to process-related issues, ultimately ending up discarded or landfilled. For this reason, experts emphasize that building a sustainable recycling ecosystem requires materials to satisfy two conditions: incorporating recycled content (Recycled) and being recyclable themselves (Recyclable).
Ahn Jae-hyun, CEO of SK chemicals, said, "This verification is an official endorsement of our materials' circularity as feedstock, which represents one pillar of the complete circular structure we are building. To establish a sustainable circular economy, we will continue to accumulate technical expertise in recycling and strengthen our competitiveness across the entire process, from feedstock to commercialization, while expanding collaboration with European customers and other stakeholders."
The seven products that received the assessment include five copolyester products in the ECOTRIA CLARO family and two products in the general-purpose SKYPET family. The five ECOTRIA CLARO products, namely ECOTRIA CLARO 100, ECOTRIA CLARO 200, ECOTRIA CLARO 300, ECOTRIA CLARO 100 CR50N, and ECOTRIA CLARO 200 CR50N, received the Full Compatible grade, indicating they can be recycled together within the PET recycling process without any restrictions across the entire workflow. The two SKYPET products, SKYPET BR and SKYPET BR-V, received the Limited Compatible grade, meaning they can be recycled under specific process conditions.
Earlier, last year, SK chemicals had secured the highest Class A rating from RecyClass through its Letter of Compatibility (LoC) for a PET bottle made with SKYPET CR, its circular-recycled PET. This assessment evaluates whether a container's structural design is compatible with existing recycling processes and serves as a benchmark for determining whether the container can be processed without issues during actual recycling. The bottle incorporated SKYPET CR BB and SKYPET CR BL.
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SK chemicals' Seven Plastic Materials Confirmed Compatible with European Recycling Processes
