May 23, 2025
Yes, you read that right! It's the plastic water bottle in your hand. Do you think its mission is just to hold water?
Have you ever thought that the components of laptops, electric cars, and 5G base stations may all be related to plastic bottles?
Recently, SABIC launched the new LNP™ ELCRIN™ WF0061BiQ resin, which uses marine waste PET plastic bottles as raw materials and is chemically upgraded to PBT resin, giving plastic bottles a "new lease of life" and helping the circular economy.
Within 30 miles (50 kilometers) of the coastline, plastic waste that is not effectively managed is called marine plastic. They may eventually enter the ocean and affect the marine ecological environment.
At SABIC, using marine waste PET plastic bottles as raw materials, chemical upgrading through SABIC's proprietary iQ technology can depolymerize and repolymerize marine PET waste to become PBT materials comparable to virgin materials.
The new SABIC LNP™ ELCRIN™ WF0061BiQ resin is upgraded and recycled using innovative chemical methods. As the latest member of the LNP ELCRIN iQ chemical upgraded recycled materials family, this new material not only helps support the circular economy, but also serves as a potential replacement for virgin PBT resin.
Using SABIC LNP™ ELCRIN™ WF0061BiQ resin to replace virgin materials can help product manufacturers eliminate halogen additives and reduce environmental impact by reusing plastic waste.
LNP ELCRIN WF0061BiQ resin is expected to provide customers with UL2809 traceable certification reports, which not only ensures the safety and reliability of plastic recycling sources and the quality of recycled materials, but also helps improve the sustainability and brand value of end products.
Marine PET waste is depolymerized and repolymerized into PBT materials through SABIC's proprietary iQ chemical upgrading technology. This process surpasses traditional mechanical recycling processes in terms of product quality and performance consistency.
The excellent performance enables LNP ELCRIN iQ materials to be used in outdoor thin-wall molding applications such as the production of electrical equipment housings.
Not only does it perform well in consumer electronics such as laptop fan housings, car seat fan housings, automotive electrical connectors and housings, but it also performs well in infrastructure such as 5G base station fan housings.
The safety of SABIC LNP™ ELCRIN™ iQ resin series should not be underestimated. According to the GreenScreen benchmark rating for safe chemicals developed by the non-profit organization Clean Production Action (CPA), SABIC LNP™ ELCRIN™ WF0061BiQ resin and its iQ family materials have or will soon be certified with 3 points or more (total score of 4 points).
In addition, the diverse formulation also makes LNP ELCRIN iQ resin not only potentially applicable to the field of electrical and electronic components, but also will play an important role in many fields such as automotive exterior accessories, healthcare applications and personal care products.
SABIC has been making every effort to protect the ecological environment of the ocean. In addition to developing sustainable materials, SABIC also regularly uses safer chemical ingredients to develop new resins and modified materials to reduce the impact on the environment in order to maintain an environmentally responsible attitude.
Ps: The above news come from sabic official website.
