{"id":116782,"date":"2022-10-11T07:29:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-11T05:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=116782"},"modified":"2022-10-06T14:10:52","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T12:10:52","slug":"arkema-increases-its-global-pebax-elastomer-capacity-expansion-for-2023-to-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/arkema-increases-its-global-pebax-elastomer-capacity-expansion-for-2023-to-40\/","title":{"rendered":"Arkema increases its global Pebax\u00ae elastomer capacity expansion for 2023 to +40%"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Arkema boosts its previously announced global Pebax\u00ae<\/sup>\u00a0elastomer capacity expansion at its Serquigny, France site from +25% to +40% in two separate phases, firstly in Q1 2023 by raising global capacity by 15%, the additional 25% starting in Q3 2023.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The greater increase in Pebax\u00ae<\/sup> elastomer<\/a> capacity will support the strong demand from partner customers in the sports, consumer electronics, medical and industrial markets, who recognize the highly specialized Pebax\u00ae<\/sup> grades\u2019 lightweight, flexibility and exceptional energy return<\/strong>. Applications range from ultra-fast running shoes to catheters or flexible device screens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Beyond this new capacity expansion in France and to support the growth of its global customers, the Group is currently assessing further investment opportunities, including in Asia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As customer demand is increasingly driven by sustainability and social responsibility, over the last few years Arkema has benefited from strong growth in particular for its bio-based Pebax\u00ae<\/sup> Rnew\u00ae<\/sup> grades, derived from renewable castor beans<\/strong>. These materials have a significantly lower carbon footprint thanks to their bio-based content and can be fully recycled as part of Arkema\u2019s Virtucycle\u00ae<\/sup> recycling program for advanced polymers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Group continues to innovate and invest to further improve its materials\u2019 carbon footprint. As part of this expansion for example, water consumption will be reduced by 25% at the Serquigny site<\/strong> thanks to process improvements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We are very excited to announce this acceleration of our Pebax\u00ae<\/sup>\u00a0elastomer capacity increase. Demand continues to grow, especially for our bio-based Pebax\u00ae<\/sup>\u00a0Rnew\u00ae<\/sup>\u00a0range.\u00a0There is no compromise between high performance and sustainability<\/strong>. Our customers demand both.\u201d Erwoan Pezron, Senior Vice-President of Arkema<\/strong>\u2019s High Performance Polymers Business Line.
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Arkema boosts its previously announced global Pebax\u00ae\u00a0elastomer capacity expansion at its Serquigny, France site from +25% to +40% in two separate phases, firstly in Q1 2023 by raising global capacity by 15%, the additional 25% starting in Q3 2023. The greater increase in Pebax\u00ae elastomer capacity will support the strong demand from partner customers in the sports, consumer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","nova_meta_subtitle":"As customer demand is increasingly driven by sustainability and social responsibility, over the last few years Arkema has benefited from strong growth in particular for its bio-based Pebax\u00ae Rnew\u00ae grades","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572,17143],"tags":[5847,10416,12705,10453],"supplier":[102],"class_list":["post-116782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","category-recycling","tag-bioplastics","tag-circulareconomy","tag-footwear","tag-recycling","supplier-arkema"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116782"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=116782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}