Circular Economy
Innovative approaches for the circular economy
More and more consumers wish to be part of the circular economy, and to move away from the one-way street of “produce, use & dispose” that is putting our environment under increasing strain. Eco-aware consumers are more likely to choose brands that can demonstrate sound eco-credentials. With BASF solutions, you can give your customers the power to choose cleaning products designed with the circular economy in mind: products that make efficient use of resources and keep people and the environment healthy, without compromising on cleaning performance.
Innovative solutions by products and combinations
Contribution:
Application: I&I, All segments
- No foaming Hydrotrope
- Good eco-tox profile
- Meet eco-label requirements
- CLP label free
- Helps to reduce VOC content in cleaners
- Highly alkaline stable
- Excellent plastic compatibility
- Enables high concentrates
Versatile Hydrotrope
Contribution:
Application: Institutional Cleaning and Sanitation – Focus Hard Surface Cleaners
- Gloss improvement, foam stabilization
- Cleaning performance
- 100% renewable based
- Meets eco-label requirements
- Readily biodegradable
- Registered in main chemical inventories
- Good plastic compatibility
100% renewable based
Contribution:
Application: I&I, Food and Beverage Processing – Focus CIP Cleaning
- Corrosion inhibitor for steel with very good performance in acidic media
- Product can be used in lower quantities than regular corrosion inhibitors
- Substitute for toxic products (e.g. Butyne diol)
- Product with improved labeling
High performance corrosion inhibitor with good resource efficiency
Contribution:
Application: I&I, Commercial Laundry
- Energy saving with lower washing temperature
- Enhance washing efficiency and water savings
- Readily biodegradable
- Utilization of renewable raw materials
- Meet Ecolabel criteria
Saves energy and prolongs lifecycle of textiles
Contribution:
Application: I&I, Food and Beverage Processing – Focus CIP Cleaning
- Enable high performing CIP cleaners
- Stable under extreme pH
- Save time, water and energy
Enable to save resources
Contribution:
Application: I&I, All segments
- Enable fast cleaners
- Formulation of fast drying cleaners possible
- Broadly applicable in trigger sprays – allows broader choice of triggers and allows a broader distance range
- Less scrubbing extends lifecycle of cleaned surface
- Meet eco-label requirements
- SCL available
- Easy to process – fewer gel phase than many benchmark products
- Allows to formulate high concentrates
Versatile, fast wetting surfactant
Contribution:
Application: Institutional Cleaning and Sanitation – Focus Disinfecting Hard Surface Cleaners
- Enables a more complete bactericidal activity (on S. aureus ATCC 6538) of biocide Protectol® PE
- The combination may be used for janitorial products
- Optimization enables lower total VOC
Enable high performing disinfecting cleaners
Contribution:
Application: I&I, Food and Beverage Processing – Focus CIP Cleaning
- Strong and odorless organic acid with superior efficiency
- Unique, more efficient and safer production process than competition (e.g. no co-product, air oxidation instead of chlorine oxidation)
- Replacement of acids with low environmental and health profile (HCl, HF, H3PO4, HNO3, sulfamic acid etc.)
- No formation of nitrose gas
Enable safe and efficient cleaning process
Contribution:
Application: Food Service and Kitchen Hygiene – Focus Ware Wash
- High performance in rinse aid
- Readily biodegradable
- Meet eco-label requirements
- Defoams the common food degradation products which helps to save water
- With outstanding plastic drying performance help to save energy and/or time
Enables outstanding rinse aids for good plastic drying
Contribution:
Application: Institutional Cleaning and Sanitation – Focus Hard Surface Cleaners
- Starch based polymer
- Excellent eco-tox profile
- Aerobic and anaerobic biodegradable
- Enables “easy to clean again” effects
- Saves time and resources by prolonging cleaning cycles or shortening cleaning time
Enables high “easy to clean again” effect
Contribution:
Application: I&I, Commercial Laundry
- Polymer with high compatibility in liquid detergents
- Good eco-tox profile
- Meet eco-label requirements
- High performance in surfactant optimized solutions
- Enable low temperature washing
- Enhance removal of bleachable stains
- Support sustainable convenience claims such as “compaction”, “energy-saving”, “easy-to-use”
- Anti-Greying effect
Optimizes performance and prolongs durability of textiles
Contribution:
Application: I&I all segments
- Enable high performing cleaners
- Prolong lifetime of the cleaned items as furniture surfaces, cars, …
Enable to prolong lifecycle of cleaned items
Contribution:
Application: Service and Kitchen Hygiene – Focus Ware Wash
- High performance as strong chelating agent
- Readily biodegradable
- Meets eco-label requirements
- Good eco-tox profile compared to other strong chelating agents
- Alternative to STPP, NTA, GLDA, phosphonate, Citrate
- Enables solid formats which have a significant contribution to save energy, cost, packaging, space, increase safety
- Utimate types with glass protection to prolong lifetime
Enables new solid formats