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Clariant to build second
China fi re retardant plant
By James Snodgrass
Urethanes Technology International
Jochen Ahrens, head of Clariant's
fl ame retardants business,
announced news regarding the
company's investments in Daya
Bay, China, at an Oct. 20 news
conference at K 2022.
Clariant had previously announced
a 60 million Swiss franc investment
on a new facility at Daya
Bay. The plant, which is scheduled
to open in mid-2023, will produce
Exolit OP halogen-free fl ame retardants
for thermoplastics used in
e-mobility and in the electrical and
electronics segments.
Ahrens revealed that Clariant
will invest a further 40 million
francs to begin construction on a
second Exolit OP production line
at Daya Bay - before completion
of the fi rst production line - and
that this second line is scheduled
to come on stream during 2024.
" The demand for nonhalogenated
fl ame retardants has increased
tremendously in the past 15
months. We evaluated very thoroughly
how the industry is going
to move, not only for the next
couple of years, but looking at
the next fi ve to 10 years, " Ahrens
said.
The increased demand has
been propelled by the trend toward
electrifi cation of vehicles.
Ahrens said that halogen-free additives
are a requirement in the
specifi cation for most components
used within e-mobility applications.
Ahrens
also announced the
expansion of the Exolit OP 1400
range with two new products, focused
principally on unattended
household appliances, designed
to meet the " glow wire test " reChristian
Battenberg,
left,
and Florian
Clausen of
Switzerlandbased
Clariant.
Plastics News photo
by Caroline Seidel
CLARIANT
Hall 8A,
Booth J11
quired by safety regulations. Clariant
has also collaborated with
Schneider Electric on that company's
defi nition of " green plastics "
and meeting the GreenScreen
Benchmark Three for safer chemicals.
And it has worked with Lavergne,
a company that recycles
ocean-bound plastics, to provide
it with fl ame retardancy for the
recycled compounds it has produced
for use in building the cases
of Hewlett-Packard laptops.
" We are very proud to have
been leading the move to environmentally
responsible fl ame retardants
for plastics for more than
20 years, " said Ahrens. " We see
enormous opportunities to support
the demand for halogen-free
fl ame retardants. "
Martin John, Clariant's vice
president for advanced surface
materials,
described
solutions
developed with the Fraunhofer
Institute, designed to optimize
the use of recycled materials in
automotive applications. Licowax
AS 100 TP is an anti-scratch additive,
made from renewable raw
material, for PP and TPO applications.
The additive is said to help
prevent scratches and scuffi ng on
interior automotive parts, household
appliances and lightweight
luggage, improving the perceived
quality of recycled plastics used
in these applications.
John also previewed Clariant's
AddWorks AGC970, a light stabilizer
solution for PE agricultural
fi lms, to extend their surface life
and UV resistance, and also preventing
contamination of the soil
from decomposition of the fi lm.
A new bio-based wax for the
processing of injection molded
polyester compounds was next
in John's presentation. John said
the bio-based Licocare RBW 560
TP Vita additive, exhibited a combination
of lubrication and nucleation
in the compounding and
processing of engineering plastics,
while offering easier mold release,
better thermal stability and
increased color stability.
The additive is based on renewable,
nonfood-competing
feedstock: crude rice bran wax,
a byproduct from the production
of rice bran oil. Clariant has
submitted an application for FDA
food-contact approval for its entire
range of Licocare RBW additives.
Clariant's
fi nal presentation
came from Bettina Siggelkow, the
company's head of sustainability
affairs. Siggelkow explained that
Clariant was an early champion of
sustainability, having introduced
a program in 2012 - Portfolio Value
Program - to steer the company's
portfolio toward increased
sustainability.
" This has been true differentiator
for us, " said Siggelkow. " Now
based on this, in 2022, we have implemented
a revised version, PVP
2.0, which now incorporates the
evolved understanding of what
sustainable product means for
us as a client, for the society and
for the industry. PVP 2.0 is based
on 39 criteria, panning all dimensions
- social, environmental
and economic - and looking at a
product along the full life cycle. "
Siggelkow
explained
CliMate,
which she described as an " ambitious
science-based target to
reduce our own emissions and
those of our customers. " Siggelkow
said: " I'm really happy to announce
that we have introduced
an automated product, a carbon
footprint tool. CliMate allows us
to provide our customers with
information on the carbon footprint
of our products based on
a process which is standardized
and is future-proofed. This really
is a value chain effort to provide
transparent and consistent data. "
Siggelkow wrapped up the presentation
with an announcement
that would become the main
talking point among the audience:
Clariant's portfolio for purifying
pyrolysis oil derived from mixed
plastic waste.
" At the last K, we presented
our circular plastic economy platform,
EcoCircle, which comprises
all our competencies in additive
design, mechanical recycling and
outlined our support for chemical
recycling, " Siggelkow said
" And, from within this platform,
we have worked now on products
for decontaminating pyrolysis oil
from mixed plastic waste, making
it fi t for use in ethylene plants. I'm
very excited that, this week, we will
launch a specially designed portfolio
for chemical recycling, based on
catalysts and adsorbents. "
Such was the interest in the pyrolysis
oil decontamination from the
audience, during a Q&A session,
Siggelkow invited the participation
of Clariant's product specialist on
the topic, Business Development
Manager Séval Schichtel.
Schichtel explained: " We have a
dual process - we call it a 'dual
concept' - in the fi rst step we have
decontamination by adsorbents,
followed by catalytical hydrogenation.
That ensures we remove
contaminants like chlorinated
nitrogen, etc. In the second step,
we remove the remaining contaminants,
the oxygenated ions or olefi
ns, that you do not want to have in
your steam cracker.
" What differentiates this concept
is the fi rst step of decontamination
- where we have a
very high fl exibility in the choice
of product and the dosing rate
- giving a high fl exibility to customers
to accept very different
qualities of pyro oil. The pyro oil
quality is dependent on the plastic
waste: the region it's coming
from, the seasons. In winter, you
have different plastic waste to
summer. That leads to very variable
pyro oil qualities and we can,
with this very fl exible concept,
address this fl uctuation. "
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