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Foreword
When biobased and chemically recycled feedstocks are added to a
chemical manufacturing process alongside fossil-based feedstocks, physical
segregation of recycled content is often technically and financially unviable.
The mass balance approach traces the amounts of these renewable feedstocks
through a complex value chain, allowing biobased content to be attributed,
mathematically, to one, or numerous outputs, regardless of whether the physical
product a consumer uses, has recycled or renewable content in it. This reduces
the need to adapt formulations and processes to cater for biobased feedstocks,
whilst not only reducing fossil inputs, but also providing the same product
standard as traditional feedstocks would. This set of rules can be applied to
biobased plastics and is often audited by third party schemes like the
International Sustainability & Carbon Certification (ISCC), or Roundtable
on Sustainable Biomaterials (RSB).
Borealis, leaders in
circular polyolefins, has recently developed PEX Pipe Blue – a portfolio of
cross-linked polyethylene pipes, alongside UK plumbing system specialists,
Uponor. The pipes are derived from pulp production waste or food processing oil
residues, for use in the construction industry. Similarly, Italian pipes and
fittings company, NUPI, has chosen Borealis’s Bornewables™ polypropylene...
Other News this Month Includes:
Policy
- CBE JU strategic priorities set for 2030
Markets
- Dow signs agreement with EcoSynthetix to expand biobased offerings to personal
care market
- Will & Co. to bring Checkerspot’s biobased materials and algal polyurethane
systems to Europe
- More...
Research & Development
- VTT develops transparent cellulose film to replace traditional plastic in
food packaging
- TIPA partners with G.Mondini to produce home compostable wet food container
- More...
Polymers
- Borealis partners with NUPI for high-performance pipes based on the
Bornewables™
- allnex announces use of mass balanced, biobased penta in all its alkyds in
EMEA
- More...
Chemicals
- Origin Materials earns USDA Certified Biobased Product label for additional
carbon negative materials
- Circa’s levoglucosenone derivative used in manufacturing method for
investigational cancer drug
- More...
Consumer Products
- Suominen launches a nonwoven made with recycled paper
- GNT expand product range with food colouring made from organic safflower
- More...
Patents
- Olivetolic acid cyclase variants and methods for their use
- Biobased EVA compositions and articles and methods thereof
Events
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