Automakers want to reduce the carbon footprint of their vehicles. Frank Tönniges from Adient explains what savings are possible in seating.

Frank Tönniges: “Polyurethane has no competition. No material can currently hold a candle to it.”

16:9

Streifinger, Florian

Recycling

Umweltmanagement

Polyurethan-Schaumstoffe (PUR)

Halbzeuge und Zwischenprodukte

Kunststoff-Halbzeuge

Kunststoff Werkstoffe

Polyurethan

Kunststoff-Recycling

Kunststoffverarbeitung: Verfahren

Kunststoff-Aufbereitung

Kunststoff-Rezyklat

“We Are Saving 50 Percent  on Foam Emissions”

Sustainable development is the focus of the Israeli company Tosaf’s trade show presence. The company presents functional, color and combined masterbatches for processing by extrusion and injection molding. These will include color masterbatches for recyclates with a special focus on post-consumer plastics as well as biodegradable masterbatches.

Special masterbatches can be used for permanent orange coloring of high-voltage components in electric vehicles

Masterbatches

Additive

Farbstoffe und Pigmente

Elektromobilität

Mobilität

Messe Fakuma

kunststoffe-international.com

Farbkonzentrate (Batches)

Biokunststoffe

Farbstoffe

Masterbatches for Current Trends

The plastics industry has a variety of materials and technologies available for significantly reducing the ecological footprint of products. There are very few applications for which it is not possible to replace at least a portion of the fossil material with recyclates or bioplastics. Various methods, standards and software tools are available to determine what savings this can achieve.

Determining CO2 Savings from Recycled Materials and Bioplastics

Simulation

Software

Normen / Standards

Recht allgemein / sonst.

Reducing the CO2 Footprint

Under the motto “It‘s all Wittmann”, Wittmann Battenfeld is presenting its machines and systems in the new Wittmann design for the first time.

Automation cell with SmartPlus 90 for manufacturing a spirit level.

Spritzgießen

Schaumspritzgießen

Messe K-Kunststoffmesse

kunststoffe.de

Spritzprägen

Energieeffizienz

Industrie 4.0 für die Kunststoffverarbeitung

Industrie 4.0

Spritzgießmaschinen

Kunststoffverarbeitung: Maschinen und Komponenten

Naturmaterialien

Verstärkungsstoffe

Green DC Current for the Injection Molding Machine

This year, the world’s leading trade show K has succeeded in presenting practical solutions for greater resource efficiency on a broad front. A first foray through the trade show grounds.

K 2022 gave numerous practical examples showing visitors how recyclates can be reliably processed with digital aids.

State-of-the-Art Injection Molding Solutions for Greater Resource Efficiency.

State-of-the-Art Injection Molding Solutions at K 2022

Doriat, Clemens, Dr.

Solar / PV

Energieerzeugung

Erneuerbare Energie

Temperiertechnik

Mehrkomponenten-Spritzgießen

Condition Monitoring / Prozessüberwachung

Instandhaltung

Spritzgießwerkzeuge

Werkzeuge für die Kunststoffverarbeitung

Handling, Handhabungstechnik

Automatisierungstechnik

Elastomer-Spritzgießen

Oberflächentechnik

Digitalisierung

Silikonkautschuk

Kautschuk / Elastomere

Kreislaufwirtschaft

Compoundieren

It Can Be Done!

The K 2022 offered an immense range of innovations and application examples for – and with more – sustainable materials. Interestingly hereby was that bio-based versions were extremely popular.

Shoes made from waste gas: genetically modified bacteria produce ethanol from waste gas, which is then used to create plastic, e.g. for the Cloudprime shoes from On.

Thermoplastische Elastomere

Thermoplaste

Silikone

Polyethylen

Polylactid

Polyamide

Effektpigmente

Polypropylen

Faserverbundwerkstoffe

Andere Werkstoffe

Is Bio the New Standard?

With the processing of increasingly “green” plastics, Bausano, an Italian manufacturer of extrusion lines, is opening itself up to the circular economy.

Bausano tested a wide variety of material mixtures of more sustainable plastics on its extruders. 

Extrusionsanlagen

Bausano Processes Plastics from Recycling and Biomaterials

Origin Materials and Husky have successfully processed recyclable PET polymer containing FDCA into preforms.

Novel hybrid polymer “PET/F” expected to deliver enhanced performance compared with traditional PET plastic and have up to 100% bio content.

Verpackungsmittel aus Kunststoffen

Kunststoffverarbeitung

Polyethylenterephthalat

New Hybrid Polymer for Preforms

In Scheplast‘s own words, the company combines injection molding and sustainability. Real ambition or empty promise?

At their site in Schwendi/Hörenhausen,  Scheplast combines plastics processing and farming.

Nachhaltigkeit

Ehrhardt, Melanie

Injection Molding in Rural Idyll

Von 100 % Neuware zu 70 % Rezyklatanteil; u.a. mit dieser Maßnahme hat die Willpütz GmbH im gemeinsamen Projekt mit dem Kunststoff-Institut Lüdenscheid seine CO2-Emissionen deutlich reduziert.

Von 100 % Neuware zu 70 % Rezyklatanteil; u.a. mit dieser Maßnahme hat die Willpütz GmbH im gemeinsamen Projekt mit dem Kunststoff-Institut Lüdenscheid seine CO2-Emissionen deutlich reduziert.

Kunststoffe, biobasiert

CO2-Bilanz als Basis für nachhaltige Transformation

Meraxis and Fortum are intensifying their existing cooperation in plastics recycling.

Länderspecial Schweiz

Unternehmen

Europe-Wide Sale of Recyclates

Recycling rates close to 50% suggest the image of a functioning circular economy. However, a look behind these figures shows that this is deceptive.

The Long Road to Circular Economy

In a research project SKZ and Plastship developed concrete proposals for the industry to increase the proportion of recycled materials in the future.

Study: Potentials of Recyclates

The Erema Group closes the financial year 2023/24 with total revenues of EUR 380 million.

Erema Group Generates EUR 380 Million in Revenues

APK AG has scaled its proprietary Newcycling technology for the recycling of post-consumer plastic waste. Flexible, multi-material packaging waste is the focus material.

Verpackungsmaterial

Logistik

APK Scales Newcycling Technology

Calculating and Reducing the Carbon Footprint

Drawing on various joint projects conducted with customers, BASF will demonstrate how to significantly improve carbon emissions from products.

Drawing on various joint projects conducted with customers, BASF will demonstrate how to significantly improve carbon emissions from products. The projects were spread across the automotive, construction, E&E, packaging and consumer sectors.

“They range from products that have net-zero or low product carbon footprints to new products made from recycled raw materials to conserve fossil raw materials,” says Dr. Martin Jung, President Performance Materials at BASF. To this end, the company has developed various materials that reduce the carbon footprint through the use of renewable or recycled raw materials. A corresponding bio-based polyurethane, for example, is already being used for a safety shoe. The constituent material is REDcert2 certified. Also on display at the booth will be Vaude-brand outdoor pants made of PA6 Ultramid Ccycled. The raw materials for the PA are sourced from chemically recycled end-of-life tires, among other things.

Pyrolysis Oil Turns into a  Circuit Breaker

The sustainability of products can also be increased through a long service life and reduced weight. At the trade fair, BASF will feature various examples to show how this can be achieved. On display, for instance, will be safe and durable PAs for high-voltage components aimed at the charging infrastructure for electric vehicles.

The company will also present an environmentally sound miniature circuit breaker (MCB) for the E&E sector that it has developed in cooperation with Schneider Electric. It is composed entirely of a PA6 compound obtained from pyrolysis oil sourced from end-of-life tires. The switch’s ruggedness has not been compromised as a result, says the company.

Another focus of BASF will be on digital and data-driven value chain models to help customers transition to carbon-neutral products. To this end, the chemical company has introduced a tool for calculating the carbon emissions of some 45,000 of its products.

With a view to improving recycling itself, BASF will introduce various additives from its IrgaCycle range. These are said to enhance the quality of mechanically recycled plastics waste.

BASF SE  

https://www.basf.com

Vaude’s outdoor pants use a PA6 from BASF made from chemically recycled car tires. 

PA6 made from chemically recycled  end-of-life tires is used in Schneider Electric’s circuit breaker.

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