PLASTICISERS | ADDITIVES
Evonik has been expanding production capacity for plasticisers
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“With the expanded capacity, we can ensure our customers a high level of delivery reliability and quality from European production,” said Roland Pietz, Vice President of Oxo Alcohols & Plasticisers at Evonik Oxeno. Elatur DINCD has low-temperature
flexibility and high UV resistance, contributing significantly to the weather resistance and durability of the products made from it. The plasticiser was launched in 2022 and is suitable for interior and exterior applications, such as floor coverings and roofing membranes. Elatur CH (DINCH) can be used for
applications involving close human contact, such as medical devices. It has low viscosity, low migration tendency, low-temperature flexibility and an excellent toxicological profile, the company reports. Elatur TM, a trimellitate, was launched in 2023 and is used for applications including high- temperature cables and vehicle interior parts. The company notes that its high molecular weight general purpose DINP product, Vestinol 9, continues to be a crucial component of its portfolio and says it is dedicated to ensuring a high level of supply security for its customers. Evonik Oxeno offers the option for
its products to be produced and supplied using mass-balanced methods from bio-based, bio-circular,
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circular raw materials, or utilising green energy.
Mass balance
Mass balancing is gaining acceptance as a way of accounting for use of bio-based, renewable, or chemically recycled feedstocks. These feedstocks are combined with conventional, fossil-based feedstocks at the initial stages of chemical production, and the alternative feedstocks are attributed to the final product in an accounting method that is certified by a third party (eg, International Sustainability and Carbon Certification [ISCC] Plus). Large chemical companies say that this approach is important in the early phases of transforming the chemical industry, because the current volumes of alternative feedstocks are not large enough to fill the capacity of a chemical plant. A benefit to users is that the resulting chemicals are the same no matter the source of the feedstock – thus they are a “drop-in” solution. In introducing new versions of its plasticisers containing sustainable content certified by ISCC Plus, Patrick Harmon, Industry Manager for Industrial Petrochemicals, at BASF, said: “With these drop-in solutions, our customers receive a product with a reduced CO2
footprint compared to
conventional materials or one that saves fossil resources by using a
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