SABIC launches BLUEHERO to help accelerate world’s shift to electrification and lower carbon future

On display at K Show 2022 will be SABIC’s BLUEHERO, an expanding ecosystem of materials, solutions, expertise and programs aimed to help accelerate the world’s energy transition to electric power and support meeting global goals on climate change. The company’s starting point with BLUEHERO is support of the automotive industry’s mission to create better, safer and more efficient electric vehicles (EVs), with an emphasis on improving structural battery components with unique flame retardant materials and solution development expertise.

The automotive industry is leading the charge in moving toward new, more sustainable mobility systems. This includes a major shift towards battery powered EVs, which can convert over 77% of electricity into movement compared to only 12 to 30% for vehicles with internal combustion engines. In addition to this high performance, EVs also emit no tailpipe pollutants and are typically responsible for significantly fewer greenhouse gas emissions during operation - enabling important contributions to meeting global goals on climate change.

“With our strategic BLUEHERO initiative, we have vigorously committed to invest in, develop and deliver material solutions that can support the transition to electric power, drive down emissions and help address climate change,” said Abdulrahman Al-Fageeh, SABIC’s executive vice president for Polymers. “Our decision to initially focus on automotive reflects the urgency of making progress in that space and the strengths we already have with established materials and capabilities that can allow us to support the shift to electric vehicles and contribute to a low carbon future.”

SABIC provides cost-effective and technologically advanced thermoplastics - which can offer significant advantages over conventional materials (metals) - to help the automotive industry further enhance the performance of EVs. SABIC’s new BLUEHERO electrification initiative also leverages specific knowledge and expertise around large part moulding, compression moulding, advanced injection moulding and polymer flame interaction to help support customers with solutions that can meet critical requirements and enable efficient production.

An integral element of SABIC’s BLUEHERO ecosystem is its global team of engineers, research fellows and scientists. This team is harnessing its established and growing expertise in design, testing and data generation for EV batteries and related applications to problem solve and overcome current limitations. The team collaborates with customers, development partners and others across the value chain, from OEMs and tiers to tooling suppliers and testing agencies.

To learn more about SABIC’s range of market-leading material solutions, please visit SABIC’s K 2022 stand D42, hall 6 in Dusseldorf from October 19 - 26, 2022 or visit www.SABIC.com.