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BASF Showcases Resource Saving: From Biomass to Plastics

First BASF polyamide based on mass balance approach in serial production

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Editor, Ink World Magazine

Kunststoffwerk AG Buchs, a subsidiary of Wiha Werkzeuge GmbH, is the first BASF customer to process and use the engineering plastic Ultramid B3EG6 MB for serial production of its Longlife brand of meter rules. The polyamide used is one of the first BASF products to be produced and marketed on the basis of the mass balance approach. The “MB” material is derived from bio-based feedstock and thus helps to save fossil raw materials and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.   According to the mass balan...

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