Today's KNOWLEDGE Share:DOW's Bio-based EPDM

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Today's KNOWLEDGE Share

Dow announces bio-based NORDEL™ REN EPDM at DKT 2024

 Dow is proud to announce at the German Rubber Conference (DKT) 2024 the launch of NORDEL™ REN Ethylene Propylene Diene Terpolymers (EPDM), a bio-based version of Dow’s EPDM rubber material that goes into automotive, infrastructure and consumer applications.


A key component of automotive weatherseals and hoses, Dow aims to support not just the automotive industry in achieving its sustainability goals with the launch of NORDEL™ REN EPDM, but as EPDM also goes into building profiles, roofing membranes, wire and cable, among others, NORDEL™ REN EPDM can help the decarbonization of building and construction and more.


The plant-based EPDM will be made through an ISCC PLUS certified mass balance system which traces the flow of bio-based raw material through a complex value chain and attributes it through verifiable bookkeeping.


Dow’s Path to Zero

The arrival of NORDEL™ REN EPDM is part of Dow’s continuous endeavors towards carbon neutrality. The technology behind NORDEL™ EPDM production, Dow’s Advanced Molecular Catalyst, already results in a highly efficient process that uses 24% less energy than the conventional Ziegler-Natta process, and thus 39% lower carbon footprint for the standard NORDEL™ EPDM grades, which has been validated by a third-party life cycle analysis (LCA).


Discover Dow’s portfolio of rubber technologies for decarbonization on show at DKT 2024

NORDEL™ REN is featured at the DKT 2024 along with a range of EPDM and Silicone rubber technologies on show that help lower the carbon footprint of diverse industries:

1. SILASTIC™ Solutions for Electric Vehicles (EV) including High Consistency Rubbers (HCR) and Liquid Silicone Rubbers (LSR) for fire protection and connectivity, advancing electrification of the automotive industry to reduce tailpipe emissions

2. SILASTIC™ Silicone for Self-Sealing Tires, designed to form a self-sealing layer on the inner surface of a tire, allowing long-distance driving without loss of air pressure and supporting easy disassembly of vehicle part for separate recycling of silicone

3. NORDEL™ EPDM innovation for Microdense Weatherseals, aiding in the reduction of overall density of weatherseals and of tailpipe emissions through lightweighting, by bringing enough strength to maintain critical performance of the rubber material

4. Dow’s patented innovation for the creation of LUXSENSE™ Silicone Synthetic Leather, the world’s first silicone-based luxury synthetic material bringing sustainability with lower carbon emissions cradle to gate, solvent-free fabrication process, and animal-free, while offering exceptional haptic feedback and remarkable abrasion resistance

Visit hall 8, stand 103a from 1 – 4 July in Nuremberg, Germany, to learn more about Dow’s innovative rubber options to advance a more sustainable future.


source:Dow

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