{"id":162023,"date":"2025-04-23T07:20:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T05:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=162023"},"modified":"2025-04-15T14:22:15","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T12:22:15","slug":"arkema-announces-bio-performance-rheology-additives-production-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/arkema-announces-bio-performance-rheology-additives-production-in-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Arkema announces\u00a0bio performance rheology additives\u00a0production\u00a0in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n

Arkema, a leader in specialty materials, converts its full line of acrylic thickeners produced in Europe, ensuring the same high performances. This initiative leads to introduce up to 30% bio-based content(1)<\/sup>\u00a0and up to 25% product carbon footprint reduction(2)<\/sup>\u00a0compared to standard grades(3)<\/sup>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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“These bio-based specialty additives set the stage for the next generation of sustainable coatings & adhesives products, supporting our customers to achieve their sustainability and carbon footprint reduction goal.\u00a0Developing more sustainable solutions for homes<\/strong>\u00a0is essential to meet market expectations and establish\u00a0new well-being standards<\/strong>.\u201d- Helene PERNOT – Global Sustainability Marketing Director @Coating Solutions.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“Used in architectural paints, industrial coatings, plasters, renders, adhesives, sealants, and various applications to optimize the rheology of those systems, those\u00a0bio-based acrylic thickeners are identical in term of performance and cost\u00a0<\/strong>for our customers. This evolution reflects our commitment to more sustainability across the value chain.\u201d – Yohann TRANG – Global Market Director – Construction Materials @Coating Solutions<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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These bio-based acrylic thickeners will be sold under Rheotech\u2122<\/sup>, Thixol\u2122<\/sup> and Viscoatex\u2122<\/sup> brands. They are the first products made with the recently announced bio-sourced ethyl acrylate produced at the Arkema acrylic monomer facility in Carling France<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rheotech\u2122, Thixol\u2122 and Viscoatex\u2122 are registered trademarks of Coatex.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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(1) A bio-based product is wholly or partly derived from biomass. The biobased content is the % breakdown based on a carbon ratio following EN16640. Bio-based products here come mainly from beetroot and sugarcane.  <\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(2) PCF cradle-to-gate including biogenic uptake according to ISO 14040, 14044 and 14067, calculated vs fossil equivalent.<\/sup><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Arkema, a leader in specialty materials, converts its full line of acrylic thickeners produced in Europe, ensuring the same high performances. This initiative leads to introduce up to 30% bio-based content(1)\u00a0and up to 25% product carbon footprint reduction(2)\u00a0compared to standard grades(3).\u00a0 “Used in architectural paints, industrial coatings, plasters, renders, adhesives, sealants, and various applications to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":162038,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","nova_meta_subtitle":"These are the first products made with the recently announced\u00a0bio-sourced ethyl acrylate produced at the Arkema acrylic monomer facility in Carling France","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[21392,12365,26169,5838,12348,26168],"supplier":[102],"class_list":["post-162023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bio-based","tag-acrylic","tag-additives","tag-bioacrylate","tag-bioeconomy","tag-coatings","tag-thickeners","supplier-arkema"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162023","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=162023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162023"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=162023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}