Lars Gustafsson presented on BASF's perspective on renewable-based products in the chemical industry. Four main drivers are influencing BASF's renewable portfolio: sustainability, raw material diversification, customer demand and regulations, and product competitiveness. BASF is taking different approaches including biomass balance products, products only from renewables, and drop-in renewables-based products. The biomass balance approach allows BASF to produce the same performance products from both fossil and renewable feedstocks in their production plants.

1. 2018-05-22 SmartCHEM summit 2018, Turku
Renewable-based products in the chemical
industry - BASF perspective
Lars Gustafsson
Senior Sustainability Manager Business Development
Nordic/Baltic

2. Why renewable feedstock?
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Sustainability: Saving of fossil resources and climate
protection
Raw materials: diversification of the raw material baseOpportunities: Customer / consumer demand and
regulations
Competitiveness: product with a certain performance not
accessible or at higher cost or market demand
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Vision 2050: a world in
which nine billion people
can live well, and within
the planet’s resources
Four main drivers are influencing BASFs renewable-based portfolio.

3. Different approaches to a renewable-based portfolio
Biomass balance
products, e.g.
 Polyurethanes
 Polyamides
 Acronal Dispersions
Products only accessible
from renewables, e.g.
 Oleochemicals
 Furandicarboxylic Acid
 Enzymes
 Schizophyllan (Biopolymer)
RRM-based
drop-ins, e.g.
 1,4-Butanediol
 Succinic acid
 Vitamin B2
 Beta-carotin

4. Hotspots in renewable raw materials (RRM)
Deforestation
Agricultural Commodity Culture
Palm Sugar Grain Wood
Growing demand, but RRM are not intrinsically sustainable.

5. Biomass Balance: groundbreaking way of deriving products from
Renewable Raw Materials

6. Biomass balance approach versus dedicated production
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Chemical productionRaw materials ProductsSteam cracker/Syngas plant
Naphtha/
natural gas
Bio-naphtha/
biogas
Basic organic
chemicals
Dedicated product
Crude oil/
natural gas
Biomass
BASF Production Verbund
Bio-based raw materials
(e.g. sugars, ethanol, plant oils)
Biomass balanced
product
Refinery
Allocation
Fossil product

7. Our core – the BASF “Verbund”production site Ludwigshafen
■ 10 square kilometers
area
■ > 160 production plants,
■ 5.800 sales products
and 12.000 components
■ 21.000 vehicles on site
■ 106 km road, 230 km
rail, and 2.800 km over
ground pipes

8. Sustainability of renewable raw materials
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Renewable raw materials for the BASF Verbund:
 Biogas from organic waste (e.g., kitchen waste)
 Bio-naphtha from vegetable oils and organic waste oils
International sustainability criteria are applied to feedstock
 Reduction of greenhouse gas emissions
 Environmental and social responsible biomass production
 Protection of areas with high biodiversity value
 Protection of land with high carbon stocks
 New feedstocks explored and developed in line with
international sustainability standards (e.g. ISCC, RSPO,
and others according to RED) and in dialog with NGOs

9. Mass balance approach in the society
A mass balance concept
is used for:
sugar, cocoa, juice and tea as traceability can
not be completely guaranteed

10. Filling the gap between traditional
and dedicated production
Biomass balance
approach
Traditional
production
Dedicated
production
 Fossil feedstock
 Known performance
 >10,000 products
available in
production scale
 Verbund production
 Biomass-derived, 3rd
party certified
 Same performance
 >10,000 products
available in
production scale
 Drop-in BASF
Verbund production
 Additional cost
of “bio” feedstock
 Bio-based
(14C method)
 Often different
product properties
 Not available for all
products
 Investment
in new plants
 Additional cost
of “bio” feedstock

11. Claims and certificates
18.05.2018
Fossil resource saving product. X % of the fossil
feedstock required for the manufacturing of this
product was replaced in the production
site by renewable raw materials.
Certified by TÜV SÜD
“
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The replacement of fossil through renewable
feedstock reduces the greenhouse gas
emissions by x t CO2 equivalents per t product.
Additional self-assessment of BASF for declaration according to ISO 14021
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EXAMPLE
Your Product

12. Examples for biomass balanced products
 Shampoo refill pack: packaging of hygiene
articles in Japan (e.g. DNP)
 Sandwichpanels with biomass balanced
insulation foam (e.g. Falk)
 Indoor paints are using biomass balanced
binders (e.g. CapaGeo)
 Biomass balanced polyamid for Aseptik
milk packaging (e.g. SIG combiblock)
 Biomass balanced polyamid for outdoor
clothing (e.g. Klättermusen)
Customers from various industries are buying our BMB products.

13. Biomass balance: Same products, clear
advantages vs. other renewable building blocks
Performance:
 Renewable products have
exactly the same
performance as
conventional products
 Mass balance method can
be applied to all products
and formulations
Costs:
 No investments in new plants
required
 No re-formulation costs required
 No costs for testing required
 Higher costs than for
conventional products
Renewable content:
 Renewable content can
range from 25-100% for a
single product
Implementation:
 Easy and fast
implementation – it is
available today
 No additional work required
 Lead time 6-9 months
Sustainability:
 Certified renewable feedstock
 Full transparency and
traceability

14. BASF contact:
Lars Gustafsson
Senior Sustainability Manager Business Development
Nordic/Baltic
Phone: +46 31-639815
Email: lars.gustafsson@basf.com
www.basf.com/biomassbalance
http://www.tuev-sued.de/ER-ID
www.kunststoffe.de/1030119
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