Sep 27 2010
After its initial launch in April 2010, DSM’s 55% bio-based resin Palapreg® ECO is clearly gaining external recognition. Recently two innovation awards were granted to DSM Composite Resins for its breakthrough product.
Palapreg® ECO is the Composite Resin with the highest biorenewable content among all bio-based resins currently available in the market. Winning these two awards, the product’s outstanding and innovative properties are now triply recognized.
Frost & Sullivan awarded the first prize called “New Product Innovation Award in the Automotive Industry” for responding to the key industry challenge in reduction of the harmful impact of fossil-based raw materials to the environment. As stated in the Frost & Sullivan jury-report: “There is a clear need for moving away from traditional non-renewable raw materials to renewable sources, in order to be successful in the global automotive plastics market, companies are forced to develop bio-based polymers with a very high renewable content.”
The first prize for innovation in the category “Raw Materials” has been awarded by the China Composites Expo, Beijing on September 15th 2010. Palapreg® ECO was presented at the Show in the form of a new kayak model, designed by TAHE Marine, one of the biggest European kayak manufacturers based in Estonia.
“We are very proud to be elected for two very prestigious industry awards, that clearly recognize us as an innovation leader in Composite Solutions”, says Michael Effing, President DSM Composites Resins. “We at DSM are committed to sustainability and innovation in Performance Materials. Palapreg® ECO helps to offer our customers in the global Composites industry a high-performance solution with the lowest eco footprint over the value chain.”
Palapreg® ECO not only matches the performance of petrochemical based materials in the market, but in some applications and functionalities, it even outperforms some of the best conventional, oil– based plastics systems. Due to the technological route chosen by DSM the level of bio-renewable content of the product can eventually be raised to 100%.