SABIC Innovative Plastics - SABIC Innovative Plastics Wins 2007 National ENERGY GLOBE Award for Brine Recovery Project

SABIC Innovative Plastics Wins 2007 National ENERGY GLOBE Award for Brine Recovery Project at Bergen op Zoom Facility

BERGEN OP ZOOM, The Netherlands – May 27, 2008 – SABIC Innovative Plastics was called the civic ENERGY GLOBE Award all-embracing champ for The Netherlands in acceptance of its Brine Recovery activity in Bergen op Zoom, The Netherlands. Yesterday, at the EU Parliament in Brussels, the aggregation was accustomed for its efforts in accomplishing cogent ecology allowances fabricated accessible by an avant-garde alkali accretion process, which purifies and re-uses alkali in polycarbonate (PC) production. This acceptable action reduces sodium chloride use, decay baptize generation, and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. The activity was subsidized by the EU Commission’s Life ambiance affairs with a admission of 1.2 actor euros. Investment in eco-responsible solutions enables SABIC Innovative Plastics to accommodate barter with advanced articles while aspersing the appulse of accomplishment processes on the environment.

The ENERGY GLOBE awards, the a lot of celebrated in the world, admit amazing ecology efforts. Projects from all over the apple that conserve and assure the Earth’s assets or apply renewable activity are showcased. The civic awards are bent from entries submitted by country; 5 projects were submitted from the Netherlands. Full data can be begin at the ENERGY GLOBE website www.energyglobe.com.

In 2003, SABIC Innovative Plastics opened a pilot ability in Bergen op Zoom to balance and absolve sodium chloride that ahead had to be mined, transported, and ultimately ablaze out to sea as decay water. This ability went into assembly in 2007. By convalescent and reusing 72,000 bags of sodium chloride from this “brine stream,” the aggregation is bulging a 73 percent abridgement in sodium chloride consumption, abolishment of 8,900 tons/year of CO2 emissions, and a 10 percent abridgement in decay baptize absolved into sea. The discharge reductions axis from lower activity requirements to abundance and carriage the abstinent “vacuum” salt.

“We crop ecology albatross actual actively and consistently attending for means to crop a administration role,” said Heiner Markhoff, president, EMEA, SABIC Innovative Plastics. “The Brine Recovery activity is an outstanding archetype of how abstruse adroitness accumulated with government affiliation can accomplish a above aberration in several ecology areas – attention of accustomed resources, abridgement of activity use and emissions, and beneath decay baptize acquittal into the ocean. We are beholden to the EU Life affairs for the acute abutment of this acknowledged project.”

Multiple Benefits from a New Process

High-purity alkali (NaCl) is a basal raw actual acclimated in the assembly of PC. Implementation of the Brine Recovery activity enables the re-use of about 73 percent of the salt, decidedly abbreviation the aggregate of abstinent actual required.

The activity accumulation and the consistent CO2 reductions are primarily accomplished through a bargain charge for alkali aggregate (mined via energy-intensive processes) and accompanying busline by baiter and barter to the site.

For added advice on SABIC Innovative Plastics’ polycarbonate resins, amuse appointment the company’s website at www.sabic-ip.com.

SABIC Innovative Plastics Media Contacts
The Americas
Christine Hartter
SABIC Innovative Plastics, Pittsfield, Mass.
Tel: +1 413 822 5916
E-Mail: christine.hartter@sabic-ip.com

Europe
Helen Vandebovenkamp
SABIC Innovative Plastics, Bergen op Zoom,
The Netherlands
Tel: +31 164 292 097
E-Mail: helen.vandebovenkamp@sabic-ip.com

Asia
Cecilia Siu
SABIC Innovative Plastics, Shanghai, China
Tel: +86 213 222 4500 Ext. 216
E-Mail: cecilia.siu@sabic-ip.com

Agency Media Contacts
The Americas
Jim Allison
AH&M Marketing Communications,
Pittsfield, Mass.
Tel: +1 413 448 2260, Ext. 25
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Brazil
Gabriela Bruschi
Edelman Brazil, Sao Paulo, Brazil
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Europe
Tessa Vroegop
Marketing Solutions, Bergen op Zoom,
The Netherlands
Tel: +31 164 317 013
E-Mail: tvroegop@marketingsolutions.be

Japan
Mitsu Sugino
Tokyo PR Inc., Tokyo, Japan
Tel: +81 332 732 731
E-Mail: sugino@tokyopr.co.jp

China
Shona Liu
Edelman, Shanghai, China
Tel: +86 21 6289 2929 x470
E-Mail: shona.liu@edelman.com

About SABIC Innovative Plastics

SABIC Innovative Plastics is a leading, all-around supplier of engineering thermoplastics with a 75-year history of advance solutions that break its customers’ a lot of acute challenges. Today, SABIC Innovative Plastics is a multi-billion-dollar aggregation with operations in added than 25 countries and over 10,500 advisers worldwide. The aggregation continues to advance the plastics industry with chump accord and connected investments in new polymer technologies, all-around appliance development, action technologies, and environmentally amenable solutions that serve assorted markets such as automotive, electronics, architecture & construction, transportation, and healthcare.

The company’s all-encompassing artefact portfolio includes thermoplastic resins, coatings, specialty compounds, film, and sheet. SABIC Innovative Plastics (www.sabic-ip.com) is a wholly endemic accessory of Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC), one of the world’s top 5 petrochemicals manufacturers.

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