DSM and Sabic combine efforts to create recycled-based Dyneema

Royal DSM, a global science-based company in nutrition, health, and sustainable living, and Sabic, a global enterprise in the chemical industry, recently announced a collaboration to create recycled-based Dyneema. Through a joint pilot with multiple CirculariTeam members, the manufacturing and usage of Dyneema using mixed plastic waste as feedstock (via mass balance approach) will be successfully demonstrated. It is an important step toward the future goal of fully closing the loop by delivering Dyneema made from ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMwPE) waste. This collaboration underlines DSM’s and Sabic’s efforts to accelerate a circular economy for materials. Certified circular ethylene from Sabic’s Trucircle portfolio By working together with members of CirculariTeam, DSM will produce recycled-based Dyneema made using Sabic’s certified circular ethylene as a pilot project in both a sailing rope and a pelagic trawl net application. The circular ethylene, from Sabic’s Trucircle portfolio, uses mixed plastic waste as feedstock (mass balance approach), which not only contributes to preventing valuable plastic from becoming waste and the avoidance of carbon emissions compared to incineration, but it will…

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