These TPEs were developed to enable the shift away from fossil resources and support the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions while ensuring the quality, properties and regulatory status remain the same.
Mass balance allows for a gradual increase of the bio share using existing infrastructure with the target to reduce the use of fossil resources step by step. It is an approach to account for materials entering and leaving a system.
Why Mass Balance?
• Enabling a gradual shift from virgin and fossil feedstocks.
• No need for investments in new equipment and processes since it is a drop-in solution.
• ISCC Plus certification through the value chain guarantees transparency and accuracy.
• Allows for the use of 2nd generation feedstocks for high-quality polymers.
Mass Balance For Medical TPE Materials
We identified mass balance as a good option for our medical customers as the resulting TPE material is a drop-in solution with identical properties. This is because monomers from renewable sources, but with the same quality and purity as those of fossil origin, are used to make bio-circular polymers (through mass balance).
We can replace the fossil polymers in our Mediprene TPE compounds with the bio-attributed mass-balanced version to create a 1:1 replacement. The technical properties, chemical composition, and regulatory status of the mass balance TPE will be the same as the corresponding fossil-based material.
