Low-carbon push brings Chandra Asri Circlo plastic into road projects

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With demand for lower-carbon building materials rising, Chandra Asri is putting its Circlo recycled plastic at the center of Indonesian infrastructure projects, including road and asphalt applications that use post-consumer waste as an additive. The company presents Circlo as a flagship circular-economy brand aimed at cutting plastic waste leakage and reducing the carbon footprint of conventional polymers.

What Circlo recycled plastic is designed to do

Circlo is Chandra Asri’s umbrella brand for recycled plastics, covering mechanically recycled pellets produced from post-consumer and post-industrial waste streams that can be used in applications such as flexible packaging, household goods and construction materials. According to the company’s own description, Circlo products are intended to complement its virgin polyethylene and polypropylene portfolio with certified recycled content as part of its broader sustainability and net-zero roadmap. Chandra Asri’s official Circlo page describes the brand as an effort to support Indonesia’s circular economy and reduce plastic waste ending up in landfills and the environment.

Beyond generic recycling claims, the Circlo line is positioned with specific environmental metrics, including lower greenhouse-gas emissions per ton of resin compared with fully fossil-based plastics, depending on the exact product and recycling route. Chandra Asri has stated in sustainability communications that it is pursuing third-party certifications such as SNI and international recycled-content standards for parts of its Circlo portfolio, with the goal of assuring brand owners and converters that the material meets defined quality and traceability thresholds. The group also links Circlo’s development to Indonesia’s national targets on waste reduction and extended producer responsibility for packaging.

A practical example of how Circlo is being used comes from the construction sector, where an affiliated company under the Chandra Asri Group has supplied recycled plastic for asphalt modification on the Jawa 9 & 10 Suralaya coal power plant project in Banten, Indonesia. In that project, the contractor highlighted that the asphalt mix incorporated plastic material branded Circlo from PT Chandra Trading Nusantara, part of the Chandra Asri Group, as a way to reuse plastic waste in road layers and support circularity in infrastructure. This use case shows how the Circlo concept is extending beyond packaging into applications where recycled plastics can potentially improve pavement performance while diverting waste from landfills, as showcased in a public post by state-owned builder Hutama Karya about the Suralaya project. The Hutama Karya project update explicitly mentions the use of Circlo plastic in the asphalt mix for Jawa 9 & 10.

Chandra Asri frames Circlo as part of its contribution to local community and entrepreneurship programs, where plastic waste collection and sorting can create income opportunities while feeding raw material into recycling lines. In public communications around social initiatives and youth entrepreneurship events, the group has stressed that it wants Circlo and related platforms to help develop creative industries reliant on recycled materials, supporting both environmental and economic goals at the regional level. A recent social-media highlight from Kao Indonesia referenced Chandra Asri’s role in supporting community programs themed around sustainable materials and job creation, indicating how consumer-goods partners see the group’s recycling initiatives as part of a broader ecosystem for circular products. Kao Indonesia’s event post points to Chandra Asri’s support for entrepreneurship and creative industries in connection with circular-economy activities.

Within Chandra Asri’s portfolio, Circlo sits alongside its established cracker and polyolefin assets as a relatively new but strategically important brand, designed to make the company more competitive with international peers that already market recycled and bio-based grades. For downstream customers, the main differentiator is the combination of locally sourced waste, domestic production, and the ability to claim recycled content in end-products without relying entirely on imported material. For investors watching the broader group, Circlo is one visible element of a longer-term plan to grow specialty and sustainability-linked polymers as regulators and brand owners tighten requirements on packaging and material footprints.

Chandra Asri Pacific Tbk is listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange under the ticker TPIA, and according to recent IDX price data its shares last traded around IDR 6,000 on 06/14/2026, giving investors direct exposure to the group’s integrated petrochemicals and emerging circular-economy businesses including the Circlo recycled plastics line.

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