CHINAPLAS: ExxonMobil progresses sustainable solutions with numerous partners

At CHINAPLAS 2023, ExxonMobil will demonstrate how it is “Creating Sustainable Solutions. Together” at its booth and also at the booths of industry leading machine manufacturers (OEMs).

Solutions with sustainability benefits will be featured, highlighting the use of Exceed S performance polyethylene, ExxonMobil PP, Achieve Advanced PP, Vistamaxx performance polymers, and Exxtend technology for advanced recycling of plastic waste in a broad range of applications.

At CHINAPLAS 2023, ExxonMobil will demonstrate its materials under the theme of “Creating Sustainable Solutions. Together”.

Its approaches to developing solutions with sustainability benefits through collaboration cover:

• Downgauged solutions that can do more with less by reducing material use while helping to maintain or boost performance using ExxonMobil performance polymers. Samples will include downgauged air tube bags

• Solutions designed for recyclability by reducing the number of components, including those often considered more difficult to mechanically recycle. Samples will include mono-material full PE stand-up pouches, full PE laundry seed packaging, thermoformed packaging containing no polyamides and an electric vehicle neat resin pillar

• Solutions that help enable mechanically recycled content to be incorporated, and even increased, because ExxonMobil performance polymers are used to help maintain or boost performance. Samples will include heavy duty sacks, trash liners and courier bags that incorporate recycled PE content, Mobil lubricant bottles that incorporate recycled HDPE content modified with Vistamaxx

• Solutions made with ISCC PLUS certified-circular polymers through mass balance allocation that leverage Exxtend technology for advanced recycling of plastic waste which can help broaden the range of plastic waste that can be recycled

Also being featured is ExxonMobil’s new Exceed S performance PE which can offer industry leading combinations of stiffness and toughness while being easy to process, enabling converters to rethink film redesign for simpler solutions.

Exceed S can help facilitate solutions with sustainability benefits by enhancing film performance, maintaining comparable performance at a thinner gauge, producing more durable mono-material film structures, or enabling the incorporation of high percentages of recycled content.

For the first time in China, ExxonMobil will introduce a product portfolio, including ExxonMobil PP grades, Vistamaxx, Achieve Advanced PP and an Exact plastomer medical grade, which complies with a number of regulatory requirements for use in a variety of medical applications including syringes, IV bags and bottles.

In addition, to help serve the fast-growing market in China, ExxonMobil is progressing a world scale chemical complex with a 1.6 million tons per annum flexible feed steam cracker and more than 2.5 million tons per annum high performance polyethylene and polypropylene units in Huizhou, GuangDong Province.