Innovation and Sustainability

More sustainable packaging with renewable raw materials for inks and coatings

Joncryl^® Biomass Balance opens up new opportunities to create more sustainable packaging – all without the need to change your production setup. BASF has established an approach to derive products from renewable raw materials: Certified renewable feedstock is used to replace 100% of the fossil resources at the beginning of the production process and is then allocated to sales products in the respective quantities. Without any compromises on quality or performance you can contribute to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 75% or more.

Joncryl^® Biomass Balance helps to improve your carbon footprint

At BASF we have developed a series of materials for inks and coatings for which fossil feedstock is replaced by renewable raw materials

For our Joncryl^® MB Biomass Balance resins and emulsions, we feed biogas or bio-naphtha derived from biomass into our production – together with fossil resources – already at the beginning of the production process. Via a certified process, we make sure that the fossil feedstock usually required for production is fully replaced by renewable feedstock and then attributed to the respective product. Each product is certified by a third party confirming that the necessary amount of sustainable renewables was fed into our production.

The resulting Joncryl^® MB resins provide exactly the same product quality and performance as conventional products – without any need to change formulations for water-based inks and coatings, printing and/or converting processes.