BASF
Neopor EPS grade contains 10% recyclate / Mass balance approach
 The company’s grey EPS with recyclate (Photo: BASF) |
BASF (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) said it has added a new product to its portfolio of grey Neopor-brand graphitic EPS resins, F 5 Mcycled, which was developed with German insulation specialist Karl Bachl (Röhrnbachy; www.bachl.de). The product contains 10% mechanically recycled material and is said to be suitable for numerous applications in buildings, particularly facade insulation.
The Ludwigshafen group said the extruded material offers the same mechanical properties and optimised insulation performance as its Neopor F 5200 Plus grade.
Both the recyclate, which comes from EPS construction and packaging waste streams, and the insulation base material have been validated by German sustainability certification scheme REDcert2 (Bonn; www.redcert.org).
“As EPS insulation materials from the two sectors can be fully recycled, this assures that the end-product is of the necessary high quality,” Karl Bachl MD Michael Küblbeck said.
With the new grade, BASF offers insulation material with a closed EPS recycling loop for the first time, said Klaus Ries, the company’s vice-president of business management for styrenics in Europe. The carbon emission associated with the resin means the achievement of two of the priorities of current climate control efforts.
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The still limited supply of high-quality recycled EPS material could initially curb widespread use of the grade, Ries noted. However, he said BASF plans to work with European partners to increase recycling efforts along the EPS chain and expand the approach to other waste streams.
BASF said the addition to its EPS portfolio fits its improving sustainability profile. In particular, the resin complements the group’s mass-balanced branded products Styropor Ccycled and Neopor BMB.
For the production of Styropor Ccycled, fossil-based input materials are replaced by pyrolysis oil from chemically recycled plastic waste, with the oil allocated to the subsequent end-product via the mass balance approach.
For Neopor, BMB, fossil raw materials are replaced by renewable feedstock. This is claimed to reduce the carbon footprint of the Neopor base material by up to 90% in the production phase alone versus traditional production methods.
The Ludwigshafen group said the extruded material offers the same mechanical properties and optimised insulation performance as its Neopor F 5200 Plus grade.
Both the recyclate, which comes from EPS construction and packaging waste streams, and the insulation base material have been validated by German sustainability certification scheme REDcert2 (Bonn; www.redcert.org).
“As EPS insulation materials from the two sectors can be fully recycled, this assures that the end-product is of the necessary high quality,” Karl Bachl MD Michael Küblbeck said.
With the new grade, BASF offers insulation material with a closed EPS recycling loop for the first time, said Klaus Ries, the company’s vice-president of business management for styrenics in Europe. The carbon emission associated with the resin means the achievement of two of the priorities of current climate control efforts.
Related: BASF launches first greenhouse gas neutral aromatic isocyanate
The still limited supply of high-quality recycled EPS material could initially curb widespread use of the grade, Ries noted. However, he said BASF plans to work with European partners to increase recycling efforts along the EPS chain and expand the approach to other waste streams.
BASF said the addition to its EPS portfolio fits its improving sustainability profile. In particular, the resin complements the group’s mass-balanced branded products Styropor Ccycled and Neopor BMB.
For the production of Styropor Ccycled, fossil-based input materials are replaced by pyrolysis oil from chemically recycled plastic waste, with the oil allocated to the subsequent end-product via the mass balance approach.
For Neopor, BMB, fossil raw materials are replaced by renewable feedstock. This is claimed to reduce the carbon footprint of the Neopor base material by up to 90% in the production phase alone versus traditional production methods.
15.03.2022 Plasteurope.com [249865-0]
Published on 15.03.2022
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