BASF brings chemically recycled products to the US

BASF says it is leveraging its global experience in chemical recycling using pyrolysis technology, which the company refers to as ChemCycling, to offer International Sustainability and Carbon Certification (ISCC) Plus certified “Ccycled” materials from the BASF TotalEnergies Petrochemicals (BP) facility in Port Arthur, Texas.

The facility is a 60/40 joint venture between BASF and TotalEnergies, which is based in France.

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The company says the recycled feedstock is attributed to the advanced recycled building blocks produced via a mass balance approach. These building blocks can be used for many BASF products manufactured in the U.S., such as super absorbent polymers, engineered plastics or polyurethanes.

“As a pioneer in the industry for advanced recycling, BASF is building on its experience, innovative strength and great partnerships along the value chain to create a more circular economy for plastics,” says Gulay Serhatkulu, senior vice president, petrochemicals, BASF North America. “By using recycled raw materials at the beginning of the chemical value chain, plastic waste becomes a resource, creating value for the environment, society and the economy.”

By establishing advanced recycling as a complementary solution to mechanical recycling, BASF says it is possible to use more end-of-life plastics, particularly those that cannot be recycled mechanically for technological, economic or ecological reasons. These include plastics with residues and mixed plastic fractions.

“New products from advanced recycling have the same properties as products using fossil-derived building blocks,” says Johanne Wilson, business development manager for ChemCycling at BASF. “Our customers can process Ccycled products in the same way as conventionally manufactured products for use in their downstream businesses, including high-performance packaging and demanding applications such as automotive or construction.”

BASF Corp., headquartered in Florham Park, New Jersey, is the North American affiliate of BASF SE, Ludwigshafen, Germany. BASF has approximately 16,000 employees in North America and had sales of $25.7 billion in 2022.