Sustainable solutions with Ultramid^® Ccycled^™

High-quality polyamides made from plastic waste

BASF supports your sustainable solutions with its new Ultramid Ccycled products

BASF’s ChemCycling^™ project is breaking new ground in the recycling of plastic waste. Chemical recycling primarily uses plastic waste that was previously used for energy recovery or simply thrown away, such as consumer plastics which were removed during the recycling process. In a thermochemical process, the plastics waste is converted into basic chemicals which are fed into the BASF Verbund as a raw material. Applying a mass balance approach, it is possible to allocate those chemicals to certain products manufactured in the Verbund, for example our Ultramid Ccycled products. This replaces and saves fossil resources.

Benefits for you:

Chemical recycling uses plastic waste that is otherwise not suitable for high-quality recycling.
No downcycling – quality is equivalent to that of new products.
The products are food safe.
No need to modify your production plants or processes to accommodate the products. The Ccycled products are drop-in products.
A closed loop is possible.

Our products made from chemically recycled material:

	Ultramid Ccycled postC1	Ultramid Ccycled postC2	Ultramid Ccycled preC3
Raw material source	Mixed plastic household waste (“Yellow Sack”)	Scrap tires	Polyamide production and process waste
Process	Pyrolysis	Pyrolysis	Cracking-Process
Mass balancing	x	x	x
Processing and production quality	Equivalent to PA made of fossil raw materials	Equivalent to PA made of fossil raw materials	Equivalent to PA made from fossil resources
Food contact	x	x	x
Sustainability aspects	Upcycling potential in a circular economy CO2 savings compared to energy recovery Saving of fossil resources	Upcycling: Conversion of scrap tires into high-quality plastics CO2 savings compared to energy recovery Saving of fossil resources	CO2-savings compared to incineration or landfill Saving of fossil raw materials
Possible claims for customer applications*	Contributes to a circular economy Closes the loop This requires less primary fossil raw material	This requires less primary fossil raw material	For this less primary fossil raw materials have been used
Certified by independent certification bodies.	x	x	x
Available	As of 10/2021	As of now	As of now