Royal DSM, a global science-based company in nutrition, health and sustainable living, and SABIC, a global leader in the chemical industry, announced a collaboration to create recycled-based Dyneema
Through a joint pilot with multiple CirculariTeam members, the manufacturing and usage of Dyneema using mixed plastic waste as feedstock (via mass balance approach) will be demonstrated. It is an important step toward the future goal of closing the loop by delivering Dyneema made from ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMwPE) waste. The collaboration underlines DSM’s and SABIC’s efforts to accelerate a circular economy for materials.
By working together with members of CirculariTeam, DSM will produce recycled-based Dyneema made using SABIC’s certified circular ethylene as a pilot project in a sailing rope and a pelagic trawl net application. The circular ethylene, from SABIC’s TRUCIRCLE portfolio, uses mixed plastic waste as feedstock (mass balance approach), which contributes to preventing valuable plastic from becoming waste and the avoidance of carbon emissions compared to incineration, and it will help preserve fossil resources.
These pilots are an important early-stage milestone in the journey toward making fully circular Dyneema from HMPE post-production and post-consumer waste.
