As Ford makes auto parts of the used coffee beans of McDonald's

In the middle of December, 2019 it became known that Ford makes auto parts of the used coffee beans of McDonald's. More than 28 million kg of coffee from network of fast food restaurants went directly on a dump earlier, however the company signed the partnership agreement with the American auto giant to minimize volume not processed to a minimum.

The McDonald's research group jointly with specialists of Ford found out that the coffee peel which departs from beans in the course of roasting can be used for production of automobile parts — especially those which should maintain high temperatures, for example, of headlights and covers of rechargeable batteries.

Ford makes auto parts of the used coffee beans of McDonald's

If to heat a coffee peel to high temperatures and to mix with plastic and other additives, it turns into the easily created fire-resistant material. Before a headlight of the Ford cars were made of plastic and a number of minerals, however now they were replaced by a coffee peel. Not only that it is an ecological and safe method of processing of food waste - use of a peel of coffee beans allows to reduce part weight by 20%, and when molding this material less energy is spent for 25%, than when using old technology. New parts meet all requirements of durability and performance and also can resist to high temperatures much better, than earlier used materials.

Now all coffee peel received on McDonald’s platforms gathers and goes to Competitive Green Technologies - the Canadian biotechnology company which is engaged in creation of the combined material for molding. The received granules go to the company under the name Varroc which makes and creates headlights. Varroc uses process which is called molding pressing at which formation of each headlight takes from 30 to 60 seconds. Eventually headlights go to production sites of Ford.^[1]

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