32 | Focus on Resins: BASF
BASF STEPWISE APPROACH TO SUSTAINABILITY
BASF has a stepwise programme to offer an alternative resin offering with a lower carbon footprint to improve its customers’ environmental credentials. Stephen Powney learns about the initiative from Dr. Jens Aßmann,
BASF VP business management ammonia value chain and operations amino resins W
ood, energy and chemicals are the major costs and focus points for wood- based panels producers and it is the last of those three components that chemicals giant BASF is making strides in terms of helping manufacturing customers identify and reduce their carbon footprints. The company has more than 90 years of experience in the wood-based panels industry and offers a broad portfolio of wood binders for various applications. Its products are found in every process and finishing step in wood processing. Dr. Jens Aßmann, BASF VP business management ammonia value chain & operations amino resins, said many woodworking companies already had a good green record by the fact that wood was a leading sustainable raw material and that the energy used to produce their products was increasingly through biomass-fired means. This, he said, left chemistry as the remaining part of the puzzle. In 2021 the sustainability journey of
BASF’s Monomers division, which includes the glues and impregnating resins business, gained further momentum, followed by a Sustainability Roadmap that was launched at the beginning of 2023. In its Sustainability Roadmap the division promised to offer circular or CO2
-reduced products in all its
major product lines latest by the end of 2025.
Above: Jens Aßmann says BASF advocates a s tepwise approach in offering sustainable binder products WBPI | April/May 2024 |
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The amino resins business delivered on this promise in August 2023 and launched a campaign - called “Rethink. Recalculate. Reform.” - showing the way to net zero with sustainable wood binders as a stepwise intermediate option for customers to improve their carbon footprint. “Two years ago, some customers did not resonate with these topics and many players were not sure what a product carbon footprint was,” said Dr. Aßmann.
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