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Borealis Advances Plastics Circularity With the First-of-Its-Kind Borcycle M Commercial-Scale Advanced Mechanical Recycling Plant

Petra Löwer (Germany)
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Borealis Advances Plastics Circularity With the First-of-Its-Kind Borcycle M Commercial-Scale Advanced Mechanical Recycling Plant

Borealis Advances Plastics Circularity With the First-of-Its-Kind Borcycle M Commercial-Scale Advanced Mechanical Recycling Plant

  • Borealis is taking another important step towards expanding its advanced mechanical recycling capabilities.
  • A commercial-scale plant will be operational in 2025, with the capacity to produce over 60 kilotonnes of circular solutions and compounds per year.
  • The design of the plant will be based on Borcycle M, Borealis’ advanced mechanical recycling technology platform.
  • EverMinds at work: This milestone confirms how innovation & technology continue to drive our transformation to a circular economy.

Borealis is designing a first-of-its-kind commercial-scale advanced mechanical recycling plant to be located in Schwechat, Austria. The plant will be based on Borealis’ own Borcycle M technology, which transforms polyolefin-based post-consumer waste into high-performance polymers suitable for demanding applications. This represents another tangible step forward on Borealis’ path to net zero.

The new plant will have capacity to produce over 60 kilotonnes of advanced mechanical recycled polyolefin solutions and compounds per year. For customers and end-consumers, this will mean an increase in the availability of high-quality recycled plastic products.

The decision was based on positive feedback from the market on recycled polyolefins delivered by a demonstration plant based on the same technology. This plant was located in Lahnstein, Germany, and operated by Borealis, Tomra and Zimmerman.

Mechanical recycling plays a key role in Borealis’ approach to achieving circularity, as shown in the integrated cascade model. The new plant will expand Borealis’ capabilities in this area, following on from the acquisitions of plastic recyclers mtm plastics in 2016, and Ecoplast Kunstoffrecycling in 2018.

The front-end engineering design (Feed) stage for the plant will be carried out by Nextchem, specialists in the field of green chemistry and technologies for the energy transition. Upon successful completion of Feed phase, Borealis expects to take a final investment decision in the second half of 2023 and start construction by the end of 2023. The first volumes of recycled polyolefin products are expected in 2025.

The plant will support Borealis to deliver on its sustainability commitments, which target a supply capacity of 600 kilotonnes of circular products and solutions globally by 2025, further increased to 1.8 million tonnes by 2030.

“With our purpose to reinvent essentials for sustainable living, Borealis is committed to rapidly increasing the share of recycled content across a wide range of high-performance polyolefins. Proof-in-point of the EverMinds mindset, this step demonstrates how innovative technology continues to advance circularity,” says Lucrèce Foufopoulos-DeRidder, Borealis Executive Vice President of Polyolefins, Circular Economy Solutions and Innovation & Technology

www.borealisgroup.com

 

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Groundbreaking Borstar Nextension Technology Sets New Standards in Performance-Based Polyolefins

Petra Löwer (Germany)
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Groundbreaking Borstar Nextension Technology Sets New Standards in Performance-Based Polyolefins

Groundbreaking Borstar Nextension Technology Sets New Standards in Performance-Based Polyolefins

  • New era of polypropylene film grades has begun with launch of first BorPure grades for flexible and thermoformed food packaging based on Borstar Nextension Technology
  • Nonwoven grade based on Borstar Nextension Technology offers excellent spinning performance and tensile strength
  • EverMinds in action: increasing the impact of circular solutions thanks to superior performance in tandem with improved recyclability and material efficiency

Borealis announces the launch of the first breakthrough polypropylene (PP) grades based on the groundbreaking Borstar Nextension Technology, a step change in performance for tailor-made PP that delivers superior properties for cast and blown film. Two BorPure film grades that set new standards for PP food packaging, BorPure RB787MF and BorPure RE539MF, are designed for eco-efficiency and recyclability. The nonwoven grade Borealis HG485FB, also based on Borstar Nextension Technology, offers superior performance characteristics. These and all other Borstar Nextension grades can be made using feedstock from the Bornewables and Borcycle C portfolios of circular polyolefins. By leveraging its polymers technology expertise, Borealis is offering its partners and customers an ever larger number of solutions providing superior performance paired with enhanced circularity and material efficiency.

Borstar Nextension Technology: a breakthrough for PP applications
Based on the proprietary Borstar platform, this groundbreaking technology broadens the range of PP properties by using proprietary, single-site Borstar Nextension catalysts and Borstar PP technology combined with multimodality and comonomer incorporation. Depending on application requirements, this step change in performance enables PP products to be tailored for superior optics and surface functionality, high purity, and sealing and bonding. The result is a spectrum of differentiated solutions that can be used in a variety of industries, including consumer products, healthcare, automotive, flexible packaging, and more.

“The Borstar Nextension Technology is a breakthrough innovation that will enable the development of novel and more circular solutions for a wide range of applications, especially in the packaging industry,” says Erik Van Praet, Borealis Vice President Innovation & Technology. “Built on the strong foundation of the Borstar platform and delivered through our profound technology expertise, this innovative blending of functionality and sustainability is in line with our EverMinds ambition of accelerating action on circularity.”

Borstar Nextension Technology enhances performance, facilitates recyclability and eco-efficiency via downgauging
BorPure RB787MF and BorPure RE539MF are the first resins to be made using Borstar Nextension Technology, which is now being scaled up. They have been designed for use in flexible packaging applications such as highly transparent thermoformable films, and sheets and lamination films for pouches and lid films. PP blown film converters benefit from BorPure RB787MF’s excellent and consistent film clarity at high extrusion throughput, very low overall migration, low seal initiation temperature, and high seal strength. PP cast film converters using BorPure RE539MF benefit from its superior transparency, high stiffness balance along with thermal stability, very low overall migration, and clean surfaces. Additional advantages include high packaging line efficiency, excellent packaging integrity, and outstanding organoleptics. The grades have been designed to enable an easier switch from conventional non-recyclable structures to fully recyclable monomaterial PP solutions, thus driving plastics circularity.

Also based on Borstar Nextension Technology is Borealis HG485FB, designed for the spunbond process. Thanks to its broad processing window and excellent spinning performance, converters can push the operating window in optimisation of web properties, web coverage, and strength. Compared to conventional resins, Borealis HG485FB provides substantial downgauging potential, thus enabling the more efficient use of resources while maintaining the same high functionality.

All grades based on the Borstar Nextension Technology may also be made using circular solutions from the Bornewables and Borcycle C portfolios. The Bornewables portfolio consists of polyolefins made with renewable feedstock derived entirely from waste and residue streams such as used cooking and vegetable oil. The virgin-quality grades found in the Borcycle C family of chemically recycled solutions are fit for the most demanding applications, including food-contact and healthcare.

Bornewables and Borcycle C grades are ISCC Plus certified according to the mass balance method that allows the customer to track and quantify the effective renewable (Bornewables) or circular (Borcycle C) feedstock used at each manufacturing step. Selecting grades from these portfolios allows customers to replace fossil fuel-based feedstock with an identical volume of sustainably sourced renewable or circular feedstock – without extra switching costs, and while maintaining the same high application quality.

“The launch of the first series of grades based on Borstar Nextension Technology enables customers and brand owners to adopt highly efficient and easily recyclable packaging solutions, all while setting new standards in PP performance,” says Peter Voortmans, Borealis Global Commercial Director Consumer Products. “And it’s just the beginning, as we add more innovative grades to this unique family for use across other industries. This is yet another example of how Borealis is re-inventing essentials for sustainable living.”

www.borealisgroup.com

 

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Borealis Announces Launch of the Borstar Nextension Technology, a Step Change for Performance-Based Polyolefins

Petra Löwer (Germany)
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Borealis Announces Launch of the Borstar Nextension Technology, a Step Change for Performance-Based Polyolefins

Borealis Announces Launch of the Borstar Nextension Technology, a Step Change for Performance-Based Polyolefins

  • Breakthrough technology broadens range of polypropylene (PP) properties thanks to proven Borstar performance and unique single-site Borstar Nextension catalysts
  • Groundbreaking proprietary technology drives plastics circularity by simplifying design for recycling
  • Novel proprietary Borstar Nextension catalysts produced at newly-built Borealis plant in Porvoo, Finland

Borealis announces the launch of its proprietary Borstar Nextension technology, a step change for PP performance. The combination of Borstar and the proprietary Borstar Nextension catalysts produces a wider range of tailored polyolefins. In multilayer applications, this groundbreaking technology enables the replacement of multiple different materials with only one material, thus enabling easier recycling and encouraging design with recycling in mind. The single-site Borstar Nextension catalysts are being produced at a newly-built plant at the existing Borealis site in Porvoo, Finland. With the development and launch of the Borstar Nextension technology, Borealis is consolidating its industry position as a leader in innovation and technology and an accelerator of plastics circularity.

Universal solution for multilayer, multimaterial-based PP applications
The Borstar Nextension technology yields synergistic effects resulting from the combination of proven Borstar performance based on multimodality and the controlled incorporation of the comonomer, in this case higher α-olefins; and the novel, single-site Borstar Nextension catalysts. The technology is a step change for PP performance because it broadens the range of PP properties thanks to its ability to tailor polymers for unrivalled higher purity, excellent transparency and optics after sterilisation, as well as superior sealing and bonding at lower temperatures. This universal solution sets new standards by enabling material substitution in multilayer, multimaterial-based applications in a range of industries, including flexible packaging, healthcare and moulding. Initial product introductions for selected consumer packaging solutions offer unbeatable transparency for film applications. For mobility applications, the Borstar Nextension Technology will enable purity levels beyond today’s automotive industry requirements with reduced odour and volatiles in automotive interior and exterior applications.

The Borstar Nextension technology drives plastics circularity. Its outstanding performance properties enable the use of only one material instead of many in multilayer applications. In a large number of applications, these circular packaging designs may include non-virgin grades like those from the Bornewables portfolio of circular polyolefins manufactured with second generation renewable feedstock; or from the transformative Borcycle portfolios containing grades made of polyolefins-based, post-consumer recyclate.

The monomaterial solutions enabled by this technology are easier to sort and recycle at the end of their first life cycle. Crucially, the high-performance monomaterial applications produced using this technology encourage design for recycling. In sum, using Borstar Nextension technology in the production of PP applications helps close the loop on plastics circularity while pushing performance boundaries.

The novel Borstar Nextension catalysts are being manufactured at the purpose-built Borealis plant in Porvoo, which started up in the first part of 2022. The present plant output supplies selected innovation grades at Borealis operations in Europe.

“Our Borstar Nextension Technology opens exciting new horizons for PP by uniting outstanding performance characteristics with enhanced circularity,” says Lucrèce Foufopoulos, Executive Vice President Polyolefins, Circular Economy and Innovation & Technology. “By setting new standards in advanced and circular polyolefins, we are leading the way in re-inventing essentials for sustainable living.”

www.borealisgroup.com

 

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Milliken & Company Commits to Net-Zero Future

Petra Löwer (Germany)
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Milliken & Company Commits to Net-Zero Future

Milliken & Company Commits to Net-Zero Future

Diversified global manufacturer Milliken & Company announces its science-based net-zero targets have been approved by the U.N.-backed Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi). SBTi is a collective of international organizations dedicated to helping companies set emission reduction targets consistent with climate science and the Paris Agreement.

“At Milliken, sustainability is a core value,” shares Halsey Cook, president and CEO of Milliken & Company. “Climate change is placing pressure on communities, on companies and on our planet. The time to take meaningful action is now.”

SBTi calculates that companies committed to cutting emissions in line with climate science now represent $38 trillion — one-third — of the global economy. Milliken is one of the first 50 companies globally to achieve approved science-based net-zero targets and joins a group of more than 1,300 companies who have made net-zero commitments using the 2021 SBTi Corporate Net-Zero Standard. Milliken is the first company to be approved in South Carolina, where Milliken’s global headquarters is located.

“Not all net-zero is the same, which is why Milliken commits to reaching real net-zero greenhouse gas emissions across the value chain by 2050 from a 2018 base year,” says Kasel Knight, general counsel and head of sustainability at Milliken. “By working with SBTi, our net-zero commitment, along with our approved near-term and long-term targets, has been fully vetted by the best available science on a global scale.”

“We’re proud Milliken is leading this work,” concludes Cook. “Our targets empower our team of more than 8,000 to reduce risk, minimize impacts, work efficiently, control costs and identify new ways to deliver products.”

milliken.com

 

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“The Bullet II” Extrusion Head From Guill Tool

Petra Löwer (Germany)
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“The Bullet II” Extrusion Head From Guill Tool

“The Bullet II” Extrusion Head From Guill Tool

New extrusion head from market leader features No hardware, for easy cleaning, plus quick-change tooling, as tips removes from the back, die from the front Plus new Cam Lock deflector retaining system

Guill Tool introduced The Bullet, an extrusion head with fixed center design, multi-port spiral flow design and gum space adjustment, plus the added feature of no fastening hardware, so cleaning and restart are easier and faster than any conventional head on the market currently, according to company sources. Recently, the company began offering the next generation of this unique and patented tool, The Bullet II. The Bullet II allows quick tooling changes, as the tips remove from the back and the die removes from the front of the unit. The absence of fastening hardware eliminates leaking, as does the taper body and deflector design pioneered by Guill. Additionally, the new patent pending Cam Lock deflector retaining system offers these additional benefits to extruders and machine builders:

  • It only takes ½ turn of the Cam Lock to remove and install the Deflector and Tip
  • No fastening hardware required
  • Fast tool changes, threaded retaining ring for the die and threaded tip retainer
  • Dies are removed from the front and tips from the rear
  • Tooling retainers also provide gum space adjustment
  • Hassle free air / vacuum connections
  • Simplified cleaning
  • Reduces downtime and lowers operating costs

High- and low-volume applications are suitable for this head and are accommodated with the simple, easy changing of just one component. A family of crosshead designs is available and users can specify the “caliber”, that is, the max. die ID.

A vacuum chamber and kit for assembly and disassembly are included with the unit. Optional keyed tooling capability offers machine designers and end users quick orientation, so the overall unit design enables faster disassembly, proper cleaning and restart, allowing the line to become more profitable, more quickly.

For a video demonstrating this new design, please visit:

www.guill.com

 

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Genki Forest Chooses Sidel’s High-Speed Aseptic Line to Sustain Rapid Growth Ambition

Petra Löwer (Germany)
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Genki Forest Chooses Sidel’s High-Speed Aseptic Line to Sustain Rapid Growth Ambition

Genki Forest Chooses Sidel’s High-Speed Aseptic Line to Sustain Rapid Growth Ambition

Genki Forest, China’s fastest-growing beverage company, has chosen Sidel’s high-speed leading Aseptic Combi Predis FMac system for its latest line. Sidel has demonstrated its strong local capability in China by installing the new line ahead of schedule.

Genki Forest’s low-calorie, low-sugar products have captured the market for China’s Generation Z consumers since its launch in 2016. Its ‘0 Sugar, 0 Fat, 0 Calorie’ flavoured water has opened up a new wave of healthy sparkling drinks in ten different flavours such as white peach, cranberry soup, and cucumber. The company’s sales grew 160% between 2020 and 2021 to reach CNY7 billion and it is now expanding into overseas markets.

Genki Forest has built several high-tech production sites since 2020 to meet its huge growth and continues to expand the market by developing new products. Its strong focus on production line efficiency, flexibility and stability, as well as guaranteed product safety, led it to choose leading international company Sidel for its latest high-speed line in Hubei province, China.

Zhang Li, Sidel’s Regional Sales Director, says: “We are committed to helping our customers achieve success through our ‘customer-centric’ concept, and we built up our relationship with Genki Forest over several years. Drawing on our skilled local manufacturing and support capabilities, we could offer Genki Forest high-speed aseptic technology and flexible equipment with excellent sustainability, all delivered ahead of schedule.”

Thanks to its Beijing plant and a mould shop in Shanghai, Sidel can offer its Chinese customers short lead times. Its team worked round the clock, completing the installation of the Genki Forest line in record time for Sidel in China – despite being carried out during pandemic restrictions. Sidel will continue to support Genki’s product innovation. A two-year packaging service agreement gives Genki access to Sidel’s leading PET packaging development and design capability, with continuous support from Sidel’s local and central packaging teams.

Sidel’s Aseptic Combi Predis FMac technology brings efficiency, flexibility, stability and reliability. It can produce both carbonated and still drinks, in aseptic conditions, with low energy consumption and an output of up to 48,000 bottles per hour. Sidel’s Aseptic Combi Predis, a blow-fill-seal solution with dry preform and cap sterilisation, consumes no water and uses very few chemicals to sterilise the whole packaging during production.

Sidel has now installed nearly 120 aseptic beverage packing lines in China, and more than 300 worldwide. The Aseptic Combi Predis technology received FDA approval in 2017. The Genki Forest line has passed all microbiological tests, ensuring complete customer satisfaction.

Find out more at www.sidel.com

 

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Covestro Collaboration With Sabic Unlocks Improved Recyclability for Mono-Material Flexible Plastic Pouches

Petra Löwer (Germany)
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Covestro Collaboration With Sabic Unlocks Improved Recyclability for Mono-Material Flexible Plastic Pouches

Covestro Collaboration With Sabic Unlocks Improved Recyclability for Mono-Material Flexible Plastic Pouches

  • Covestro has developed a new heat-resistant coating for use on mono-material stand-up pouches made with Sabic’s PE/BOPE technology
  • Coating facilitates high-speed industrial production of stand-up pouches made with Sabic BOPE biaxially oriented polyethylene
  • New solution enables simpler, single-stream recycling
  • Covestro provides key ingredients, raw materials, and expertise for the development of heat-resistant coatings
  • Sabic provides key ingredients, raw materials, and expertise for the development of mono-PE stand-up pouches

Covestro has developed a proof-of-concept heat-resistant coating for use on mono-PE stand-up pouches made with Sabic BOPE polymer. The coating facilitates the industrial-scale production of BOPE-based mono-material stand-up pouches on horizontal form-fill-seal (HFFS) lines. This innovation paves the way for simple single-stream recyclability of flexible plastic pouches, marking an important step on the way to achieving a circular economy for packaging. Covestro and Sabic will continue their collaboration to further improve and eventually commercialize this product and bring its benefits to brand owners and consumers.

A revolution in packaging materials

Traditional flexible plastic packaging uses multi-material laminates, which are difficult to recycle as it is expensive and time-consuming to separate the different polymer layers. Driven by concern around packaging waste from consumers, governments, and industry, packaged goods brands are looking for more circular solutions. One increasingly popular option is mono-material packaging, made with materials such as BOPE.

BOPE can be used to make flexible packaging in which all the layers are manufactured from PE polymer grades. This packaging can then be recycled in a single stream. However, BOPE-based mono-material stand-up pouches are difficult to manufacture at scale on FFS lines due to their low heat resistance compared with current Pet- or PA-containing laminates. To solve this problem, Covestro engineered a heat-resistant coating for mono-PE BOPE-based stand-up pouches. This increases the pouches’ heat resistance so they can be manufactured on high-speed FFS production lines while maintaining high visual and performance qualities. Thanks to Covestro’s new coating, Sabic’s BOPE polymer can be a viable alternative to replace PA and Pet containing multi-material laminates for flexible plastic packaging.

“We take our responsibility to create lower-impact packaging seriously. Our circular economy strategy focuses on recyclable solutions that unlock pathways toward closing the loop on materials,” explains Davide Reverdito Bove, Sector Marketing Manager at Covestro. “In Sabic, we found an expert partner. This close collaboration will enable us to accelerate the engineering and testing process of our new heat-resistant coating for BOPE with clear benefits for the product quality, the customer, and the planet.”

Catalyzing circularity in the packaging industry

Covestro’s heat-resistant coating has several benefits for packaging manufacturers. It prevents heat seal bars from sticking during the sealing stage of the HFFS and VFFS process – allowing for a broader sealing temperature window and eliminating wrinkling and shrinkage. This enables the creation of high-performing mono-material flexible stand-up pouches with simple, single-stream recyclability.

“Thanks to this heat-resistant coating solution for flexible packaging, manufacturers can meet challenges in processing, without compromising on the properties and machinability of the packaging,” says Roel Beckers, Sales Manager at Covestro. “It allows a faster switch to mono-PE solutions and the use of the BOPE material as we work with global value chain partners who share our mindset of contributing to a more circular plastics economy.”

Covestro innovative heat-resistant coating enables brands, retailers, film producers, and others in the value chain to create new high-performance yet recyclable mono-material packaging – supporting the drive to achieve a circular economy for flexible packaging in Europe and beyond. Although the coating is currently at the proof-of-concept stage, Covestro and Sabic are excited to further develop this innovative solution into a commercial product, helping brands and consumers achieve their sustainability ambitions. By embracing open innovation, both Covestro and Sabic are also committed to working together with the full packaging value chain to accelerate the introduction of more circular packaging solutions to the market.

www.covestro.com.

 

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Clariant Announces Further Investment in New China Flame Retardants Facility for E-Mobility and E&E Applications

Petra Löwer (Germany)
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Clariant Announces Further Investment in New China Flame Retardants Facility for E-Mobility and E&E Applications

Clariant Announces Further Investment in New China Flame Retardants Facility for E-Mobility and E&E Applications

  • CHF 40 million investment in second line for patent-protected halogen-free Exolit OP flame retardants at future Daya Bay plant
  • Will support rapidly growing demands from China- and Asian-based component manufacturers for innovative & sustainable fire protection in E-mobility, E&E, transportation, 5G communications, infrastructure, and appliances
  • Reinforces Clariant’s commitment to putting flame retardant production & local teams with technical expertise close to customers’ operations

Clariant will create a second production line at its new CHF 60 million state of the art facility for Exolit OP halogen-free flame retardants currently under construction in Daya Bay, China. This additional CHF 40 million investment will further expand access to innovative and sustainable fire protection solutions and related technical expertise to support the significant growth of engineering plastics applications in E-mobility and electrical & electronic segments.

“Brands and equipment manufacturers are increasingly switching to non-halogenated flame retardants to meet rising electrification needs and sustainability claims. And we see this in the rapidly growing demand for our Exolit OP flame retardants in China and other Asian markets. Offering local production and the support of technical experts at Daya Bay, alongside the development capabilities at the One Clariant Campus laboratories in Shanghai, will enable us to respond faster to local, regional and global supply needs and also work more closely with our customers to fulfill increasing safety regulations and technical performance requirements in E-mobility, 5G communications, transportation and beyond,” comments Jochen Ahrens, Clariant’s head of flame retardants business.

The new Daya Bay flame retardant plant will supplement the capacity of Clariant’s two Exolit OP plants in Knapsack, Germany and is beneficial to the global customer base. Despite the external challenges of Covid, logistical and supply chain issues, Clariant is still targeting its original timeline, i.e. commencing production in Daya Bay around mid-2023, with the second line due to come on stream within 2024.

Clariant will produce its global range of patent-protected organophosphorus flame retardants on site. The team at the Shanghai One Clariant Campus will support customers in the joint development and in-application testing of flame retarded solutions.

Having closer proximity to component and parts manufacturers is part of a wider commitment to product innovation and addressing sustainability challenges through value chain collaborations. Some Exolit OP products support a Circular Economy for plastics, considering their favorable properties for recycling.

Both new flame retardant production lines will share infrastructure and built-up capabilities in place at Clariant’s Daya Bay site. Local resources are being used for the facility, with a high focus on safety. All 500,000-man hours worked since construction began have been accident free.

Construction is well advanced at Clariant’s Daya Bay flame retardant plant, opening 2023.

www.clariant.com

 

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Electrification Solutions Under Bluehero Initiative Headline Sabic’s Automotive and Transportation Showcase at K 2022

Petra Löwer (Germany)
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Electrification Solutions Under Bluehero Initiative Headline Sabic’s Automotive and Transportation Showcase at K 2022

Electrification Solutions Under Bluehero Initiative Headline Sabic’s Automotive and Transportation Showcase at K 2022

  • Exhibit of innovative automotive and transportation solutions largely focuses on support of the industry’s shift to efficient electric vehicles through new Bluehero initiative
  • Multi-award winning Lucid Air electric vehicle and use of Sabic thermoplastics on notable applications among the prominent highlights of Sabic’s stand
  • Additional applications on display demonstrate Sabic’s support to meet growing demand for more sustainable and circular approaches, increased functionality, enhanced aesthetics and vehicle differentiation

Sabic, a global leader in the chemical industry, is showcasing at K 2022 a wide range of exhibits and applications based on its thermoplastic materials and solutions covering the automotive and larger transportation sector, which can support carbon emissions reduction, vehicle efficiency and performance enhancements and the creation of vehicles that meet the needs of today and tomorrow.

Headlining this dedicated space within the company’s stand at K 2022 is its Bluehero initiative, an expanding ecosystem of materials, solutions and expertise that aims to help accelerate the world’s shift to electric power and a lower carbon future. The initiative’s initial focus is on potential polymer solutions for battery pack components and systems of electric vehicles (EVs). Beyond electrification, additional solutions on display demonstrate Sabic’s commitment to meet growing demand for more sustainable and circular approaches, increased functionality, enhanced aesthetics and vehicle differentiation.

Electrifying Showcase of Lucid Air
A standout element of Sabic’s booth is the Lucid Air, the 2022 MotorTrend Car of the Year from Lucid Motors. Recognized as the world’s longest-range and fastest-charging luxury production electric vehicles, the Lucid Air uses thermoplastics from Sabic in more than 25 applications, from structural, EV battery and electrical components to exterior and interior parts. For a few notable applications, Sabic also provided predictive engineering support – to help minimize and eliminate part warpage, support ease of manufacturing and enhance final part performance.

One such application, on display at Sabic’s stand, is a Lucid in-house designed, patented and prized battery module housing from the Lucid Air’s battery pack. The part design itself is unique in that it integrates the electrical conductor directly into the housing in a one-shot molding process. This approach eliminates the need for adhesives, cutting production time and improving quality and consistency. Use of Sabic’s flame retardant (FR) Lexan resin, a polycarbonate (PC) material, meets the high stiffness requirements for the housing component, while providing a lightweight solution that can potentially contribute to improvements in specific energy or energy density. The Lexan material, a 20% glass fiber filled injection moldable grade (non-chlorinated/non-brominated FR, UL94 V0 at 1.5 mm), provides thermal and dimensional stability in addition to high impact strength and ductility. Use of metal for the same part would add significant weight, limit design freedom and introduce significant processing challenges.

 

EV Battery Materials, Solutions & Expertise
Additional content and solutions developed under Sabic’s Bluehero electrification initiative and on display include:

  • A virtual flame test lab that allows visitors to execute a simulated flame test on material samples of aluminum and Stamax FR resin, highlighting the intumescent character of this long glass fiber polypropylene (LGF-PP) material and its potential effectiveness as a thermal and fire barrier.
  • A Sabic Battery Explorer installation, providing a virtual dive into a battery pack design using the latest thermoplastic technologies. Visitors can take the battery pack model apart, reassemble it and zoom in to see its specific design features.
  • Honda’s Silver Edison Award winning EV battery pack cover for its CR-V model in China made with Sabic FR polypropylene compound (PPc). Use of this short glass fiber (SGF) material for this application enables compliance with that country’s stringent EV fire safety requirements, while eliminating the need for thermal blankets to help reduce complexity and cut part weight by 40% vs a similar design in metal.
  • An all-plastic prototype EV battery tray structure with integrated cooling channels and crash protection elements, for up to 12% weight savings compared to one in an existing aluminum EV battery pack.

Supporting the Changing Front and Back of the Vehicle
With the emergence of grille-less designs for EVs and the demand for unique styling and functionality for both the front and back of the vehicle, manufacturers are looking for materials that can meet critical requirements. To help manufacturers understand what can be possible with its thermoplastics, Sabic is offering a ‘Smart Panels’ solution station, which presents concepts for both front and rear panels and highlights critical considerations for the choice of materials.

As part of the station, Sabic is spotlighting two display samples. This includes one of the industry’s first and largest high-volume illuminated front panels on a production vehicle today. The part, manufactured through an injection-compression molding process with clear Lexan LS resin for the first shot and a black Cycoloy resin (PC/ABS) for the second shot, features integrated lighting and decorative elements for distinctive functionality and striking aesthetics. A second sample is an integrated rear panel produced through an in-mold decoration (IMD) process. In each case, Lexan resin provides greater design freedom for distinctive styling and aesthetics, the transparency, impact toughness, UV resistance and high heat and color stability to deliver the required performance for these applications.

Helping Enable Circularity with Mechanically-Recycled Options
On display is the prototype of a full structural tailgate carrier, produced using mechanically recycled Stamax resin – available under Sabic’s Trucircle portfolio of circular solutions. This part represents a new set of LGF-PP grades with recycled material, which can offer similar performance to that of their virgin resin equivalents. These three new grades – Stamax T2E-40YR240 and T2E-30YR240 (high stiffness) and T5E-40YR270E resins (high impact) – are among the first of many mechanically-recycled materials from Sabic for potential use to meet requirements for a range of exterior, structural and interior parts, while supporting the demand for more sustainable materials to help reduce CO2 footprint and enable circularity.

Light and Strong Structures
One value of plastics are their high strength to weight ratio. An example on display is Lucid Air’s front-end module. This part meets weight and strength requirements through a single-shot injection molding process with Stamax resin from Sabic with organic sheets. The latter are pre-cut and inserted into a mold, shaped and combined with several additional inserts, which are then over-molded together to form a lightweight composite hybrid with a high level of rigidity. With this injection molding process, a high level of functional integration is possible, resulting in less assembly work and, in turn, lower costs.

Foam & Lightweight Solutions
Various lightweight foam solutions are on display at Sabic’s booth. These include an inner tailgate panel made with new Sabic PPc materials well-suited for foam injection molding (FIM), which can deliver low weight and, unlike standard FIM materials, exceptional aesthetics for vehicle interiors.

An additional sample is an all-PP sandwich panel made with Sabic PP-UMS (Ultra Melt Strength) resin for its outstanding foam-ability to support weight reduction, potential cost optimization and design for recyclability. Such solutions are in high demand today with transportation OEMs looking to remove weight from applications such as sidewalls, roof panels, floors and doors.

Vehicle Specialty Glazing
Sabic also features advanced Lexan PC sheet material solutions and glazing technology for potential use across various vehicles. Examples on display include Honda motorcycle windscreens, which use Lexan Margard FMR5XT sheet to achieve compliance with safety requirements and create an aerodynamic design to make the application user-friendly. This sheet material delivers excellent transparency and high optical quality for curved parts, extremely high impact strength, and outstanding abrasion resistance, among other beneficial properties. Also on display: a windshield and upper windshield from Isoclima S.p.A. for Leonardo Helicopters AW169 helicopter model with high optical quality Lexan ULG1003 sheet. Isoclima and Leonardo Helicopters chose this particular sheet product from Sabic for this exclusive helicopter window because of the material’s transparency, low weight, UV resistance and extremely high impact strength.

Aircraft & Railway Interiors
In this category, Sabic is also highlighting new lightweight thermoplastic Lexan sheet materials well suited for a wide range of railway interior applications, as well as aviation-specific interior solutions – which can meet requirements for durability, aesthetics and compliance with relevant industry standards.

In addition to weight savings, these Lexan sheet materials can provide significant freedom of design for cost-effective part integration and consolidation, outstanding surface quality and sustainability advantages (e.g., eliminating painting and/or coating, facilitating end-of-life recycling).

Visit Sabic during K 2022 from October 19 to 26 in Düsseldorf, Germany, in Hall 6, Booth D42 to learn more about these and other potential automotive and transportation solutions. Speak with the company’s experts about how Sabic’s expanding set of materials and expertise in automotive and transportation can help manufacturers rethink and push the boundaries of design in these segments.

www.sabic.com

 

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Perstorp Makes Product Carbon Footprint Values Available for 85% of Its Sales Volume

Petra Löwer (Germany)
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Perstorp Makes Product Carbon Footprint Values Available for 85% of Its Sales Volume

Perstorp Makes Product Carbon Footprint Values Available for 85% of Its Sales Volume

Perstorp is aligning with the new industry standard for product carbon footprint (PCF), developed by the industrial initiative Together for Sustainability. Perstorp can already provide product carbon footprint values for about 85% of its products (based on sales volume), and is continuously adding more products.

The focus on product carbon footprint is strongly increasing, in line with the emerging emphasis on reducing CO2 emissions and sharing carbon footprint at a product level. Swedish based sustainable solutions provider Perstorp currently has product carbon footprint values for more than 80 products, which corresponds to about 85% of the sold volume. These values are updated annually, based on production plant-specific conditions. All the PCF values for Perstorp´s Pro-Environment products, contributing to the sustainable transformation of value chains by substituting fossil feedstock with renewable and recycled, are ISCC Plus certified.

Carbon footprint data is central for companies working towards CO2 emission reduction targets, and for making informed decisions by comparing the footprint of different products. To enable companies further down the value chains including brand owners to make carbon footprint calculations of their individual products, it is crucial that the chemical industry can provide this data for their products, which in turn are raw materials used in thousands of end products.

“Transparently sharing this type of information with our customers is an important part of being a sustainable solutions provider and serving value chain needs,” says Anna Berggren, VP Sustainability at Perstorp. “Product carbon footprint is an important way of providing value with our Pro-Environment products; it shows how they reduce CO2 emissions by substituting fossil feedstock with renewable or recycled alternatives, which gives an effect for all downstream parties and products in the value chain. We have products already today that are climate positive up to our gate when including biogenic CO2 uptake, and we will continuously reduce the carbon footprint of all our products along our reduction roadmaps towards reaching our Science-Based emission reduction targets in 2030.”

As part of the joint initiative Together for Sustainability, companies from the global chemical industry have agreed on a global guideline for calculating product carbon footprints. Perstorp was one of several companies who evaluated and tested the new methodology during spring 2022. Perstorp has been calculating and sharing product carbon footprint values with customers for many years, but has now also developed a digital tool that makes it easy and accessible to share the values with customers.

Together for Sustainability is an industry-leading initiative driven by chemical procurement specialists. Each member is dedicated to building sustainable chemical supply chains, regulatory requirements, and responding to the needs and expectations of society.

Learn more at www.perstorp.com

 

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