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Go!Create - welcome to #ourplasticsjourney towards a sustainable future at K 2022

Do you want to give plastic waste a new life and reduce CO2 emissions? Or find new technologies that enable circularity of plastics? We at BASF certainly do so!

Therefore: Join #ourplasticsjourney, let us Go!Create sustainable solutions for all phases of a plastics life: MAKE, USE, RECYCLE. Together we can make that journey go faster. Get an insight into what happend at K 2022.

You want to experience the K spirit? 

Then listen to our "Go!Create" song. More than 300 creative and talented BASF colleagues created their own K2022 anthem together with the Popakademie Baden-Württemberg.

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Watch our K 2022 highlights 

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You weren't live on site?

Join Richard Amberger on his little walk around our BASF booth at K 2022 and learn more about #ourplasticsjourney.

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Get an insight into our Co-Creation projects with our Creator Talks at K 2022

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You want to know how footwear can embrace circular economy? Or how BASF more and more focuses on green energy? Perhaps you need more information about sustainable additive solutions for the automotive industry to anticipate regulatory changes for controversal substances? Just browse the topics of the creator talks at our booth at K 2022, choose the one that meets your requirements and join #ourplasticsjourney. During the creator talks you will hear not only about BASF innovations and new recycling solutions but also about the latest discussions in the different industries. 

Here you find an overview of all the Creator Talks!

Go directly to the recordings of the Creator Talks here! 

Listen to our customers - successful Co-Creation projects

MAKE

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Sustainable furniture (BPI)

Click here to go to the BPI website!

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Sustainable outdoor pants (VAUDE) 

Click here to go to the VAUDE website!

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Sustainable Footwear (U-Power)

Click here to go to the U-Power website!

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Sustainable mobility (Catena-X)

Click here to go to the Catena-X website!

The videos show, how our customers already lowered their environmental impact by using BASF plastics made from renewable or recycled feedstock.

  • BPI, Danish furniture manufacturer (biomass balance approach)
  • VAUDE, Outdoor-brand (mass balance approach, use of chemically recycled end-of-life tires)
  • U-Power, Italian safety shoe brand (biomass balance approach)
  • Catena-X, Multi Company open data ecosystem for the automotive industry

USE

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ChemCycling™

Click here to go to the Schneider Electric website!

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Energy efficiency (Arçelik)

Click here to go to the Arçelik website!

In the USE phase of their lifecycle, plastics can improve energy efficiency through their light weight, they make products last longer thanks to their robustness and peak performance, and plastics enable more sustainable applications for e-mobility or the refrigerator industry.

  • Arçelik, Turkish manufacturer of household appliances
  • Schneider Electric, French Electrical Engineering Group

RECYCLE

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Recycling plastic waste (Coldharbour Tiles)

Click here to go to the Coldharbour Tiles website!

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Soil-biodegradable mulch film made of ecovio® (Eiffel)

Click here to go to the Eiffel website!

 

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Used EPS packaging (expanded polystyrene) can be completely recycled

The final destination of #ourplasticsjourney is a circular economy, where the end is a new beginning. To advance the RECYCLE phase, BASF offers several product packages that pursue and expand all existing recycling methods.  

  • Coldhabour Tiles, Germany
  • Eiffel, Italian plastics film producer
  • Karl Bachl Kunststoffverarbeitung, Germany

Listen to our experts 

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Felix Willenbrink, Segment Marketing Consumer, explains how BASF helped to create the first carbon neutral safety shoe of the Italian brand U-Power.

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Sven Heppes, Ind. Affairs & Public Relation Styrenics EU, on sustainable EPS brands based on renewable feedstock or on chemical and mechanical recycling.

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Andreas Wollny, Project Lead Catena-X, Marketing Transportation, tells, how the project Catena-X with the Automotive industry helps to reduce the carbon foodprint of parts and processes.

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Felicitas Lauer, Global Segment Coordination Agro - Business Dev. Biopolymers, about biodegradable mulchfilms, a co-creation project with the Italian brand Eiffel.

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Peter Wintermann, Teamleaders Sales Consumer Furniture, presents the project with BPI, a Danish furniture manufacturer, that in the future will only use TPU based on an biomass balance approach.

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Joel Bouijoux, Sales Industrial, Western Europe, about the cooperation with Schneider Electrics and the first MCB made of a flame retardant Ultramid with chemcycled content.

BASF focuses on sustainability because that is the purpose of our company: We create chemistry for a sustainable future.  

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    Learn more about the circular economy of BASF
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    A look into the future - thinking in circles!
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    We are already embarked on #ourplasticsjourney
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    Get details about sustainable plastics
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    Not easy to understand, but worth the try: 

    The Mass Balance Approach

Discover in which products categories we can Go!Create together and start the plastics journey with MAKE – USE – RECYCLE:

 

Solutions for sustainable engineering plastic and sustainable products to design a circular economy

Performance Materials

We are your global partner in the plastics value chain, you can choose solutions that power the circular economy and make net zero possible. Materials originating from plastic waste or bio-based materials; choosing the right technology, be it mechanical or chemical recycling, or closing the nutrient loop with biopolymers – check out more.
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Plastic Additives

At BASF Plastic Additives, we are focused on delivering solutions that contribute to the sustainability of plastics: making them lighter, stronger, and more durable. We innovate with partners in the plastics recycling value chain to create a circular economy.
Join us on the journey: create new VALue for plastics in the ERA of Sustainability with VALERAS™
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trinamiX

BASF subsidiary trinamiX enables on-the-spot plastic sorting with its Mobile Near-Infrared (NIR) Spectroscopy Solution. Using trinamiX technology, the composition of plastic parts can be rapidly identified through a handheld device that combines patented NIR detectors, sophisticated data analysis, and a user-friendly mobile app.
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Lupranat & Ultramid Extrusion

With over 60 years of experience, BASF is the leading supplier of large-volume monomers, basic polymers and inorganics for the automotive, furniture, construction, woodworking, food, feed, solar, packaging and textile industries. Our range of sustainable polymers and inorganics made from recycled material and renewable raw materials help close loops.
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Plasticizers

In a wide variety of applications, BASF’s plasticizers help make numerous PVC products flexible. They help products to last longer, function better and maintain their value. When stability meets flexibility, it’s because at BASF, we create chemistry.
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3D Printing Solutions

BASF 3D Printing Solutions GmbH is a 100% subsidiary of BASF and offers the world’s largest selection of 3D printing materials under the brand Forward AM. Customers benefit from a cross-technology material portfolio of AM powders, filaments and photopolymers suitable for standard as well as high-demanding applications. 
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EPS by BASF

The re-invention of EPS - Since the invention of Styropor® more than 70 years ago, our experts at BASF have succeeded in improving expandable polystyrene (EPS). The further development Neopor® is established in the construction industry and insulation materials made of it make an important contribution to reducing CO2 emissions. With alternative manufacturing methods, we are reinventing EPS and offering solutions for a sustainable future.
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Challenges that lie ahead on #ourplasticsjourney towards a sustainable future.

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Dr. Martin Jung - President Performance Materials

At K 2022, our theme is ‘Go!Create - welcome to our plastics journey’. We invite all visitors to join our journey towards a sustainable future with plastics. The Plastics Journey towards a more sustainable economy needs a co-operative approach and this has a long way to go.

Dr. Martin Jung

President Performance Materials

BASF @ K 2022

Meet the BASF Team

October 19-26, 2022 

in Düsseldorf, Germany

Hall 5, Booth C21/D21


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General information about K 2022

Here you will find all important information about the K 2022 such as travel, tickets and accommodation. We are looking forward to seeing you!

 

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News 

On June 21, BASF presented Our Plastics Journey at the K 2022 press conference of Messe Düsseldorf - a date for all news from the plastics industry!

All press information and a video of the conference can be found here!

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