ELIX Polymers E-LOOP CR products are manufactured using sustainable and certified raw materials that incorporate circular and bio-circular feedstocks. These products hold ISCC-plus certification, ensuring traceability and transparency across the supply chain using the mass balance model.
Various feedstock combinations are possible, as there are three alternative sources for the three main monomers (acrylonitrile, butadiene and styrene): fossil-based feedstocks, chemically recycled post-consumer waste and bio-circular feedstocks.
Furthermore, ELIX’s E-LOOP CR can help reduce the CO2 footprint by promoting sustainable and circular feedstocks, which have lower greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions than conventional materials. For the toy industry, “ELIX ABS E-LOOP M220 CR100” uses the sustainable version of acrylonitrile from AnQore, “Econitrile-MB™”, which is produced using sustainable ammonia and propylene.
Repsol offers styrene and butadiene from chemically recycled post-consumer waste and bio-circular feedstocks from UCO (used cooking oil), depending on the final application and customer requirements. ELIX Polymers signed agreements in 2020 with both companies, AnQore and Repsol, to ensure supplies of more sustainable materials.
All three companies believe that long-term partnerships across the entire supply chain are necessary in order to achieve sustainability goals and offer products that are manufactured using more sustainable materials to the society. Customers will not notice any change in the properties of their products, yet they will be participating in responsible, circular consumption.