During this year’s K show, SABIC (hall 6, booth D42) will highlight its commitment to circular, sustainable solutions designed to reduce plastic waste and support the shift to product electrification. SABIC will demonstrate how chemistry is making a remarkable difference across industries and driving tangible change.

Main emphasis will be on two key areas: the circular economy for plastics and a clean air economy through the transition to product electrification.

SABIC’s booth will display its latest innovations and sustainable solutions across a range of industries, including: Building & Construction, Electrical & Electronics, Transportation, Health & Hygiene, Consumer Goods, and Advanced Packaging, with as top highlights: BLUEHERO and TRUCIRCLE.

BLUEHERO

At K 2022, SABIC will highlight its elevated commitment and dedicated initiative in support of the world’s shift to electric power. The new initiative, known as BLUEHERO, is SABIC’s evolving ecosystem of materials, solutions and expertise, designed to help accelerate the world’s energy transition to electric power.

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.

According to Dhanendra Nagwanshi (picture on the right), Global Marketing Leader, EV Batteries & Electricals Automotive Business, Petrochemicals, SABIC: “SABIC’s decision to initially focus on automotive reflects the urgency of making progress in that space given the ongoing push to advance EV technology. In addition, we already have existing strengths with established materials and capabilities that can allow us to support the shift to electric vehicles so we believe that we can have an immediate impact.”

“To advance these efforts, we are engaging and collaborating with automakers and their part suppliers, in addition to battery manufacturers and others across the industry. No one part of the EV value chain can support this shift on its own.”

SABIC anticipates expanding the focus and scope of its BLUEHERO initiative to help support efforts in additional sectors. Those could potentially include energy storage, charging infrastructure, other modes of transport and industrial and consumer equipment.

TRUCIRCLE

Frank Kuijpers (picture on the right), General Manager Corporate Sustainability at SABIC said: “With TRUCIRCLE, SABIC is helping to provide manufacturers access to more sustainable materials, including mechanically recycled polymers, certified circular products, certified renewable products, products designed for recyclability and closed loop initiatives.

SABIC started introducing its TRUCIRCLE solutions back in 2019, primarily for in packaging applications using materials from its PE and PP product portfolio. Today we are offering a full range of alternatives including Engineering Thermoplastic materials and chemicals. This pioneering work have generated attention from other industries such as hygiene and healthcare, Automotive, B&C and consumer goods helping our partners to increase circularity and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.”

Also in 2021, SABIC added a new recycled material made from ocean bound plastic, which has been recovered, from ocean-feeding waterways and inland areas within a 50 kilometres radius of the ocean. The ocean bound material is mechanically recycled and converted into components for new consumer goods and electronics applications.

And also in 2021, SABIC created the first certified circular polymers produced through the advanced recycling of recovered mixed and used ocean-bound plastic which have since been introduced into various customer applications.