COMPOUND INNOVATION | SUSTAINABILITY
drop-in replacement for standard petrochemical- based polymer grades. “The home furnishing sector is keen to find new ways to enhance the circularity of everyday products, but maintaining top product quality and longevity is essential,” says Daniel Elfe-Degel, Manager Product Management Edgebands and Sustainability Officer at Rehau Industrial Solutions Division. Covestro is now being supplied with two mass-balanced renewable raw materials — phenol and acetone — from the Ineos Inviridis product range, which it is using in production of polycarbon- ate. The reduced carbon-footprint grades are offered as drop-in solutions for applications includ- ing headlights and other automotive parts, housings for electronic devices, light guides and lenses, and medical devices. The company says the products display the same performance as fossil-based counterparts and easily integrate into existing production processes without technical changes. The Inviridis phenol and acetone feedstocks are
produced from bio-attributed cumene at the Ineos sites at Gladbeck in Germany and Antwerp in Belgium, both of which are certified to the ISCC PLUS and RSB standards. The raw materials provide a lower carbon footprint than petroleum-based equivalents and do not compete with food sup- plies, according to Ineos. Plastic seatbelt buckle covers used in the Audi Q8
e-Tron car are being produced in a LyondellBasell plastic compound that uses feedstocks derived from mixed automotive plastic waste. Under the scheme, plastic parts from scrapped Audi customer vehicles are chemically recycled into pyrolysis oil by SynCycle (a partnership between Next Generation Group and BDI), which is then used as a feedstock in Lyondell- Basell’s production process. The recycled content of
the polymer is allocated according to industry-stand- ard mass-balance principles. According to the project partners, this approach allows a recycling stream to be created from materials that are currently only suitable for energy recovery. It is claimed to reduce usage of fossil- based primary materials while keeping feedstocks in a circular loop. Materials with mass-balance allocated pyrolysis oil feedstocks are of the same quality as virgin materials and show the same properties. The latest line of recycled PMMA materials from
Trinseo is Altuglas R-Life, an umbrella brand that will include chemically and mechanically recycled, reused, and bio-based PMMA grades suitable for production of cast and extruded sheets, resins, and compounds. Altuglas R-Life acrylic resins have been developed with both 50% and 80% chemi- cally recycled monomer from PMMA waste and can be used in a broad range of applications in sectors such as retail, lighting, interior architecture, furniture, construction, and transportation.
CLICK ON THE LINKS FOR MORE INFORMATION: �
www.aimplas.net �
www.wittenburggroup.com �
www.cabotcorp.com �
www.lbf.fraunhofer.de �
www.avient.com �
www.ascendmaterials.com �
www.lanxess.com �
www.teknorapex.com �
www.gabriel-chemie.com �
www.sabic.com �
www.borealisgroup.com �
www.covestro.com �
www.ineos.com �
www.lyondellbasell.com �
www.trinseo.com
www.compoundingworld.com
Left: Rehau is using mass balance certified
Bornewables PP from Borealis for production of furniture edge trims
Above: Audi is using a LyondellBasell compound with mass balance chemically recycled
content for seat belt buckle parts in its Q8-e-Tron
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IMAGE: BOREALIS IMAGE: AUDI
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