INEOS Styrolution Launches New Bio-styrene to Reduce Carbon Footprint by 99%

INEOS Styrolution has launched new NAS®ECO and Luran®ECO sustainable products based on the ISCC PLUS certified mass balance process.

These products are based on the production of styrene from renewable feedstocks that do not compete with food production, such as kitchen waste and wood waste.

Compared to petrochemicals, the carbon footprint of the new product is reduced by between 77% and 99%, depending on the amount of renewable feedstock used to produce the material.

Eike Jahnke, Vice President Specialty EMEA, said: “These new products expand our portfolio of specialty styrene products based on mass balance. Together with our previously launched Styrolux® ECO and Styroflex® ECO ranges, we are now able to provide our four A professional product line for customers with sustainable embedded solutions.”

The production of the new material will take place in Ludwigshafen, Germany. Luran® and NAS® are clear styrene specialty materials supplied by INEOS Styrolution.

Luran® is a styrene-acrylonitrile copolymer (SAN) with a good balance of properties, clarity, chemical resistance, high stiffness, heat resistance and dimensional stability. These properties make them the material of choice for a variety of household and cosmetic packaging applications.

NAS® is a rigid, amorphous styrene methyl methacrylate (SMMA) copolymer suitable for applications requiring high clarity such as water tanks, displays, food containers. NAS® has an excellent clear appearance, very low haze and good heat and chemical resistance. The optical properties of NAS® are similar to PMMA, while NAS® offers density and processing advantages compared to acrylic solutions.