Automotive connector made with BASF Ultramid Ccycled polyamide
TE Connectivity (TE) and BASF jointly introduce a new TE automotive connector with components made from BASF Ultramid Ccycled polyamide, a circular solution with an attributed share of pyrolysis oil originating from Asia-sourced post-consumer plastic waste.
BASF Ultramid Ccycled polyamide chemical recycling solution contributes to TE’s sustainable development.
With chemical recycling, post-consumer plastic waste that is not recycled mechanically is converted into pyrolysis oil. The recycled feedstock is fed into BASF’s production process as a drop-in solution to enable customers’ requirements such as product carbon footprint reduction target and recycled content target.
Together with BASF’s Ultramid Ccycled, TE has successfully integrated materials with a certain portion of recycled material into the connector, achieving the target of reducing fossil resource consumption and product carbon footprint without compromising on quality and performance.
Through the mass balance approach, Ultramid Ccycled offers the same identical high-performance properties as virgin fossil-based materials.
“The circular solution Ultramid Ccycled demonstrates BASF’s strong focus on feedstock transformation in its integrated value chains,” said Andy Postlethwaite, Senior Vice President, Performance Materials Asia Pacific, BASF.
