K 2022 perspective: BASF's green solutions cover the entire plastic life cycle

BASF will present its journey towards circular economy goals at K 202 The theme of this year's show is "Go!Create - Welcome to our plastic journe.

BASF believes that the full life cycle of plastics consists of three stages: manufacture, use and recycli.

Start with improving the way plastics are made

BASF will showcase solutions for tracking and reducing the carbon footprint of products across the entire value chain in different industri.

The use of renewable or recyclable raw materials is also BASF's solution to reducing the carbon footprint of its products, such as the use of various polystyrene products in the packaging and construction industri.

In addition, BASF's biomass balance certified materials are also used by the furniture industry or by shoe bran.

Another example of a more sustainable way to manufacture plastics and their consumer products is outdoor pants, which are made from chemically recycled end-of-life tires using BASF's Ultramid Ccycled technolo.

Outdoor pants made from old tires

Solutions to improve plastic performance

BASF introduces several plastics as truly sustainable high-performance materials: from safe and durable polyamides for high-voltage components in electric vehicle charging infrastructure, to recycled PA6 compounds using 100% pyrolysis oil from end-of-life tires for electronics The electrical industry manufactures green miniature circuit breake.

BASF plastics also help to improve energy efficiency, for example by serving users in the refrigeration industry, helping them obtain the highest energy efficiency lab.

Solutions to improve plastic recycling methods

In the recycling phase, BASF offers a wide range of product systems for the realization of new recycling methods, as well as the expansion of all existing recycling metho.

While its subsidiary trinamiX offers innovative mobile NIR spectroscopy solutions for sorting and identifying different types of plastic waste, BASF AG offers IrgaCycle, a new range of additive solutions that improve the mechanical recycling of plasti.

This year, the BASF stand will also feature ecovio, a certified compostable biopolymer that supports the organic recycling of food waste and food-contaminated packagi.