Neste RE – Neste launches a 100% renewable and recycled raw material for plastics and chemicals production
Type of post: NEWS.
Neste is launching a new product, Neste RE, a 100% renewable and recycled raw material for plastics and chemicals production. Also, Royal DSM has just announced that it will start a strategic partnership with Neste to enable the production of high-performance polymers.
Press release 1: "Neste RE enables a future where all plastic products can be made of renewable and recycled materials – and the future starts today", 26/11/2020.
Press release 2: "Neste and DSM announce strategic partnership to create high performance materials made from sustainable feedstock", 27/11/2020.
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Figure 1. Neste launches a 100% renewable and recycled raw material for plastics and chemicals production (photo: Neste)
Neste RE is both renewable and recycled: the product’s renewable components can be produced from waste and residue oils and fats and sustainably-produced vegetable oils. The recycled component is produced from chemically-recycled plastic waste that cannot be recycled mechanically, such as coloured, multilayer or multi material packaging. It is a product for tackling climate change through reducing the need to use virgin fossil resources, while it also provides a new solution to the end-of-life related challenges the polymers and chemicals industries are facing today.
Regarding to the new strategic collaboration, DSM Engineering Materials will start replacing a significant proportion of the fossil feedstock used to date in the manufacture of its high performance polymers portfolio with feedstock produced from recycled waste plastics and/or 100% bio-based hydrocarbons. These polymers are used, for example, in the automotive, electronics and packaging industries.
Over the short term, the collaboration aims to replace several thousand tons of fossil feedstock in the production of polymers with alternative, sustainable feedstock: bio-based and waste plastic-based hydrocarbons.
Examples of previous collaborations of Neste within this field:
- With Jockey to develop the market for rigid packaging from sustainable renewable and recycled materials for food and non-food applications.