Shenzhen, China, April 16th – LyondellBasell (NYSE: LYB) today announces the company will participate in Chinaplas 2023, which will be held April 17th- 20th in Shenzhen. Under the theme of “We make a sustainable tomorrow possible”, LyondellBasell is displaying five innovative application scenarios at its booth (Hall 17, L61) to demonstrate how its solutions are contributing to sustainable everyday living. During the exhibition, LyondellBasell will also announce their latest collaborative work with upstream and downstream parties in the value chain, including Nippon Paint China, Jiangsu WMGrass and Genox. By deepening local cooperation, LyondellBasell aims to promote local innovative recycling ecosystems and together with industry partners shape a more sustainable future.
"Chemical materials are critical in modern and sustainable living. The five daily application scenarios showcased at our booth vividly demonstrate how our products can enhance sustainability in various downstream sectors, helping to create a safe, healthy, and sustainable life for consumers," said Limin Fu, vice president of JV Management and Polyolefins at LyondellBasell China. "In China, we are committed to ensuring localized supply of products by continuing to expand collaboration with local brands, developing sustainable solutions, and enabling the circular economy."
"China is extremely important to the LyondellBasell Advanced Polymer Solutions business. Its development of circular economy and dual carbon initiatives provides us with accelerated opportunities in various markets such as electric vehicles, low-energy buildings and eco-friendly packaging," said Joanne Swiggett, vice president of Advanced Polymer Solutions at LyondellBasell APAC and AFMEI. "We will continue to push forward the localization measures, combining global technology with local needs and working with industry partners to develop solutions that enable a safer and more sustainable future for China."
Joining forces with local partners to foster a more sustainable future via the circular economy
LyondellBasell Circulen product portfolio, including CirculenRecover, CirculenRevive, and CirculenRenew polymers, is a key step in fulfilling the company's commitment to sustainability. Through mechanical recycling, advanced (molecular) recycling and making polymers from bio-based feedstocks, the Circulen product line promotes the recycling of plastics, and reduction of fossil-based feedstocks. Circulen products can provide customized sustainable solutions for customers' application needs in different industries, such as food packaging, medical product packaging, vehicles and home appliances.
Since its launch at Chinaplas in 2021, Circulen solutions have been recognized by several brands in China. LyondellBasell will join with Nippon Paint China to release their latest collaboration achievement during the Chinaplas Media Day on April 16 – new coating packaging made from CirculenRecover polypropylene (PP). CirculenRecover PP is mechanically recycled from plastic waste, which reduces plastic waste from entering the environment, helps to promote the circular economy, and increases the sustainability value of consumer products.
LyondellBasell will sign a framework agreement with Genox Recycling on April 17 at the LyondellBasell booth with a view to establishing a joint venture company and build a mechanical plastics recycling plant in Zhaoqing, Guangzhou. In addition, LyondellBasell will collaborate with Jiangsu WM Grass to release the artificial turf made from recycled plastics – “GreenRhythm”.
High-performance materials for high-quality living
From a bottle of water, a lunchbox, and a toy, to washing machines and refrigerators, LyondellBasell materials are embedded throughout our daily consumer goods. With a diverse portfolio of polyolefins, advanced polymers, additive masterbatches and color concentrates, LyondellBasell provides complete solutions with high-performance materials to enhance the quality of life.
The extensive LyondellBasell product portfolio includes polypropylene (PP) (homopolymer, copolymer and impact copolymer) and polyethylene (PE), which are widely used in both flexible and rigid packaging markets. In food packaging, consumer product packaging and chemical packaging, LyondellBasell PP and PE provide excellent stiffness and environmental stress cracking resistance, allowing for reduced wall thickness, less material usage and lower costs.
LyondellBasell low shrinkage PP compounding can replace Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS), making it suitable for appliance components with flexibility in design, excellent durability, and dimensional stability while optimizing costs. Schulablend engineering polymer alloy materials are made of advanced formula and processing techniques and can be used for the structure of refrigerators, stoves, washing machines, dishwashers, and various types of household appliances, as well as plastic-for-steel part replacement. This helps customers reduce costs, weight and the number of parts, with no need for spray coating, while providing good appearance and additional functions. LyondellBasell high-performance color masterbatches offer strong coloring power, high color accuracy and strong color stability, making them suitable for a wide variety of consumer applications.
Making cars lighter and run farther
Whether it is bumpers, instrument panels, interior trims, under-the-hood applications or structural parts and body panels, LyondellBasell offers solutions from its rich polymer product line. With our years of experience in the automotive industry, we provide precise and suitable solutions for automotive components.
Low-density and foamed Hostacom interior materials and Hifax automotive exterior materials strike a balance between light weight and high-performance. Hifax materials can also be used for car tailgates and fenders, as a means of replacing steel with plastics to help make cars lighter, more energy-efficient and achieve longer mileage. Hifax, Hostacom, and Invision materials can respectively be applied to produce front trunk “compartments”, decorative components, and covers, ensuring the sealing and covering performance of the front trunk.
Translucent plastics offer numerous new options for personalized light design. The material offers outstanding optical and mechanical properties, and high durability, for use in car interior and exterior applications. Schulamid nylon and Schuladur polyester materials, which could be laser-welded, are applied to automotive sensor housings. They feature low deformation at the welding interface and high welding strength, ensuring the stable operation of vehicles. The LyondellBasell Lupolen resin series, developed for plastic fuel tanks (PFT), demonstrates outstanding chemical resistance and low-temperature impact performance, making vehicles lighter while meeting safety specifications.
Advancing energy-efficient buildings
From water supply pipes, gas pipelines and heating systems to energy-efficient roofing materials, the diverse product portfolio from LyondellBasell helps enable energy-saving buildings and create solutions for everyday sustainable living.
Photovoltaic (PV) energy-saving roofs are a new trend in the construction industry. Typically, PV roofs have larger spans and are suitable for lightweight roofing systems. Thermoplastic Polyolefin (TPO) products, being lightweight, are the preferred choice for PV roofs. LyondellBasell Catalloy technology is the optimal choice for producing TPO waterproofing membranes, which helps advance roofing versatility and durability with energy efficiency and safety.
High-performance pipelines help improve water quality and reduce energy consumption. The LyondellBasell Hostalen series offers easy to process and pressure-resistant high-performance piping systems used in items ranging from underfloor heating and pressure piping systems for hot and cold water, to underground drainage and sewage systems.
Enabling healthcare applications
Packaging materials for medical and healthcare products are subject to stringent requirements. The LyondellBasell Purell product series is trusted because it was specifically developed for customers in the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries, helping to meet their high-performance material demands while meeting requirements that safeguard consumers' health and safety.
High-performance medical packaging materials must protect reagents' activity to the greatest extent possible. Purell PE 3020D is a low-density polyethylene (LDPE) material with high rigidity, outstanding organoleptic properties and inertia to most chemicals. It is used in small blow molding (blow-fill-seal technology) and injection molding processes to produce medical packaging, caps and connectors. Purell PE 3020D can also be applied to sterile packaging for aesthetic medical products, including ampoules, and has achieved mature market recognition.
Medical devices have the most diverse applications in the medical and healthcare sector, posing the most challenging requirements for materials. Purell LDPE, HDPE, and PP resins are widely used in various medical device scenarios, such as surgical equipment, diagnostic devices, products for treating or assisting treatment of diseases, injuries or disabilities, and injection, inhalation or oral drug delivery systems.
About LyondellBasell
As a leader in the global chemical industry, LyondellBasell strives every day to be the safest, best operated and most valued company in our industry. The company’s products, materials and technologies are advancing sustainable solutions for food safety, access to clean water, healthcare and fuel efficiency in more than 100 international markets. LyondellBasell places high priority on diversity, equity and inclusion and is Advancing Good with an emphasis on our planet, the communities where we operate and our future workforce. The company takes great pride in its world-class technology and customer focus. LyondellBasell has stepped up its circularity and climate ambitions and actions to address the global challenges of plastic waste and GHG emissions reductions. For more information, please visit www.lyondellbasell.com or follow @LyondellBasell on LinkedIn.
利安德巴赛尔将在CHINAPLAS 2023国际橡塑展上呈现可持续的生活日常
中国深圳，4月16日——利安德巴赛尔（NYSE: LYB）将于4月17日至20日参加在深圳举办的Chinaplas 2023国际橡塑展。以“持续塑造，无限未来”为主题，利安德巴赛尔将在展台（17号馆L61展位）呈现五大创新应用场景——生活消费、交通出行、房屋基建、医疗健康和循环未来，展示其产品如何为日常可持续生活创造解决方案。本次展会上，利安德巴赛尔还将携手塑料循环领域的上下游合作伙伴立邦、江苏文明和隽诺环保，发布最新合作成果。通过深化本土合作，利安德巴赛尔以期链接产业伙伴创领本土生态，共塑可持续未来。
“创建现代和可持续的生活方式离不开化工材料。我们展台的五大日常应用场景直观地展示了我们的产品如何提升各下游领域的可持续价值，为消费者创造安全、健康和可持续的生活。”利安德巴赛尔中国合资管理及聚烯烃业务副总裁付立民表示，“在中国，我们致力于通过不断扩展和本土品牌的合作，保障产品的本地化供应，持续赋能行业的可持续发展，共同建设循环经济的未来。”
“中国对利安德巴赛尔高新材料业务部（APS）极为关键，其大力发展循环经济和双碳的举措为我们在电动车、低能耗建筑、绿色包装等多个细分领域加速带来机会，”利安德巴赛尔高新材料业务亚太区、非洲和中东地区副总裁Joanne Swiggett说到，“我们将不断深化本土化进程，将全球科技与本土需求相结合，同行业伙伴共筑一个更安全、更可持续的未来中国。”
携手本土伙伴，以循环经济致可持续发展未来
利安德巴赛尔的Circulen可持续聚合物和高性能改性材料品牌，包含CirculenRecover、CirculenRevive和CirculenRenew等不同子品牌，是利安德巴赛尔践行可持续发展承诺的重要步伐。通过机械回收、先进（分子）回收以及利用可再生原料生产塑料，Circulen系列产品保证了塑料的回收与高价值再利用，减少使用化石原料。Circulen系列产品可根据不同行业客户的应用需求，如食品包装、医疗产品包装、汽车和家电等，提供定制化的可持续产品，协助客户在循环经济和碳减排领域找到合适的解决方案。
Circulen系列产品继2021年发布上市后，目前已和多家品牌合作。今年，利安德巴赛尔将在4月16日的媒体日上联合立邦发布最新合作成果——采用CirculenRecover聚丙烯聚合物制成的全新循环塑料包装桶。CirculenRecover聚丙烯聚合物是对消费后的塑料垃圾进行机械回收而制成，有助于减少塑料垃圾进入环境，从而推动循环经济并提高消费产品的可持续价值。联合打造的涂料包装桶将塑料废弃物“变废为宝”，推动了产品整体可持续性的大幅提升。
4月17日，利安德巴赛尔将在橡塑展展台与隽诺环保签署框架协议, 计划与隽诺环保携手成立合资公司并在广州肇庆建立机械回收塑料循环工厂。除此之外，利安德巴赛尔还将联合江苏文明发布使用再生塑料制成的人造草坪 --“再生绿韵”。
高性能材料助力高品质生活
小到一瓶水、一盒饭，一个玩具，大到一台洗衣机、冰箱，我们日常生活消费品中处处都隐藏着利安德巴赛尔的材料。利安德巴赛尔拥有多元化的聚烯烃、改性材料、功能性母粒和色母粒组合，提供完整的解决方案，高性能材料助力高品质生活。
利安德巴赛尔丰富的产品系列包括聚丙烯（均聚、无规共聚和抗冲共聚）与聚乙烯广泛地被应用于软包装和硬包装市场。在食品包装，日用品包装，化学品包装等领域，利安德巴赛尔聚丙烯，聚乙烯提供了完美的挺度与耐环境应力开裂性能更可以更好的减小制品的壁厚，减少材料的使用，降低成本。
利安德巴赛尔低收缩率改性聚丙烯可代替ABS，用于家电零部件，设计灵活自由，具备优异的耐用性和尺寸稳定性，还可优化成本。 Schulablend工程聚合物合金材料使用先进的配方和加工技术，可用于冰箱、炉灶、洗衣机、洗碗机和各类家电的结构和以塑代钢部件，帮助客户降低成本、零件数量、重量和免喷涂，同时具有良好的外观和附加功能。利安德巴赛尔高性能色母粒具备着色力强、颜色精度高，色彩稳定性强等优势，可广泛应用于各类消费品中。
让汽车更轻跑得更远
无论是保险杠、仪表板、内饰、引擎盖下的应用，还是结构件和车身面板--利安德巴赛尔拥有丰富的聚合物产品系列，借助我们在汽车行业积累的多年经验，可为汽车零部件提供准确合适的解决方案。
低密度和发泡Hostacom内饰材料和Hifax汽车外饰材料兼顾轻量化和高性能。Hifax材料还可用于汽车尾门和翼子板，实现“以塑代钢”，帮助汽车变得更轻、更节能，续航里程更长。Hifax、Hostacom和Invision材料还可分别用于生产前备箱的“舱”、装饰部件以及盖板，保证前备箱的密封和遮盖性能。
透光聚丙烯改性材料为定制化的灯光效果设计提供了诸多新选择。这种材料具有出色的光学和机械性能，以及较高的耐久性，可应用于汽车内外饰。可激光焊接的Schulamid尼龙、Schuladur聚酯材料，应用于汽车传感器外壳上，具有焊接面变形小，焊接强度高的特点，保障了汽车的稳定运行。利安德巴赛尔为塑料油箱（PFT）开发的Lupolen系列树脂，具有出色的耐化学性和低温抗冲击性能，让车身符合安全法规且更轻。
推进绿色节能建筑
从供水管道、燃气管道、暖气管道到提升节能效率的屋顶材料，利安德巴赛尔凭借多样化的产品组合，帮助推动绿色节能建筑和品质生活。
光伏节能屋面是建筑行业的一个新热点。一般光伏屋面的面积跨度较大，适合使用轻量化的屋面系统。TPO产品较轻，是光伏屋面的首选。利安德巴赛尔独有的 Catalloy技术是生产TPO防水卷材的最优选择，能提升屋顶的多功能性、耐久性和安全性，有效降低建筑能耗。
高性能管道有助于改善水质、减少能源消耗。利安德巴赛尔的Hostalen系列产品提供易于加工、耐压的高性能管道系统，如用于供暖和供水的地暖管和多层管，以及用于地下排水和污水系统的冷热水压力管道。
为健康安全保驾护航
医疗健康类产品对包装材料有着更严苛的要求。利安德巴赛尔备受信赖的Purell系列产品，专为制药和医疗保健行业的客户开发，能满足客户对材料的高性能要求，为消费者的健康安全保驾护航。
高性能医疗包装材料能最大程度保护试剂活性。Purell PE 3020D是一种具有高刚性、优异光学性能以及耐化学性能的低密度聚乙烯（LDPE）材料，用于小型吹塑（吹灌封技术）、注塑成型工艺以生产医疗包装、盖子和接头。Purell PE 3020D还可应用于包括安瓿在内的医美行业产品的无菌包装，并已具有成熟的市场认可度。
医疗器械在医疗保健领域有最多样化的应用，也对材料提出了最具挑战性的要求。Purell LDPE、HDPE 和 PP 树脂被广泛用于各种医疗器械场景，如手术设备、诊断设备、用于治疗或辅助治疗疾病、损伤或障碍的产品，以及注射、吸入、外用或口服给药输送系统等。
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