Enabling Circularity for our Customers
Borealis is determined to expand its leading position as a universal supplier of circular polyolefin solutions that enable our customers to pursue a sustainable living.
Empowering our customers
We are dedicated to enabling our customers transition to circular solutions, a quest reiterated in our recent We4Customer (We4C) strategy update.
We offer a unique portfolio of advanced circular polyolefin solutions tailored to our customers’ evolving needs, made possible by our unparalleled presence along the entire plastic value chain. This allows us to meet our customers’ expansive set of circularity criteria - be it minimizing the carbon footprint, closing the loop on plastic waste, achieving virgin-like properties, meeting regulatory requirements, ensuring cost-efficiency, and conveying an impact story to consumers.
Borealis’ unique approach to Circularity
The key to circularity is an intimate understanding and presence in all parts of the plastics value chain. This begins with product design, followed by waste handling, mechanical and chemical recycling and the use of alternative carbon sources to close the plastic loop.
Atmospheric carbon
Using captured CO2 and transforming it into base chemicals and polyolefins. We are working with our partners to bring this feedstock to our customers.
More about atmospheric carbonBornewables™
Using carbon from bio-based, renewable feedstocks—as seen today in the Bornewables™ portfolio.
More about Bornewables™Design for Eco-Efficiency
We design products that optimize resource use and minimize waste use without compromising quality, safety, or performance throughout an extended product lifespan
More about design for Eco-EfficiencyDesign for Reuse
We apply our expertise in plastic use and processing to create systems and business models for reuse, helping to maximize and extend the lifetime of products already in circulation
More about Design for ReuseDesign for Recycling
Through appropriate material and design choices, we design products that can easily be collected through dedicated channels, sorted into mono-material streams, and sent to recycling
More about design for recyclingWaste collecting and sorting
In waste collection and sorting, we work closely with partners to assure chain of custody from certified waste sources.
Mechanical Recycling
Our Borcycle™ M transformational mechanical recycling technology delivers industry-leading efficiency, giving plastic waste another life while achieving a significant carbon footprint reduction. We improved this technology to produce higher quality mechanically recycled polymers making them suitable for high-performance and sensitive applications
More about mechanical recyclingChemical Recycling
Our vital complementary technology, Borcycle™ C valorizes residual plastic waste streams not suitable for mechanical recycling and that would otherwise go to incineration or landfill. Chemical recycling enables the production of high-quality, virgin-like, drop-in recycled plastics suitable for demanding applications.
More about chemical recyclingBorvida™
Our portfolio of circular base chemicals, manufactured with sustainable raw materials, drastically reducing the environmental footprint of the products that our society relies upon.
More about Borvida™Circular Economy Model © Borealis
Circular Progress in detail
As a trusted partner, we contribute our deep polyolefin knowhow and collaborate with our customers at inception – when we Design for Circularity:
- Design for eco-efficiency:
We design products that optimize resource use and minimize waste use without compromising quality, safety, or performance throughout an extended product lifespan. - Design for Reuse:
We apply our expertise in plastic use and processing to create systems and business models for reuse, helping to maximize and extend the lifetime of products already in circulation. - Design for recycling:
Through appropriate material and design choices, we design products that can easily be collected through dedicated channels, sorted into mono-material streams, and sent to recycling.
In waste collection and sorting, we work closely with partners to assure chain of custody from certified waste sources.
We maintain a strong presence in the key forms of recycling:
- Mechanical recycling:
Our Borcycle™ M transformational mechanical recycling technology delivers industry-leading efficiency, giving plastic waste another life while achieving a significant carbon footprint reduction. We improved this technology to produce higher quality mechanically recycled polymers making them suitable for high-performance and sensitive applications - Chemical recycling:
Our vital complementary technology, Borcycle™ C valorizes residual plastic waste streams not suitable for mechanical recycling and that would otherwise go to incineration or landfill. Chemical recycling enables the production of high-quality, virgin-like, drop-in recycled plastics suitable for demanding applications.
For certain applications, our customers look for drop-in solutions based on alternative types of feedstock:
Biobased carbon:
Using carbon from bio-based, renewable feedstocks—as seen today in the Bornewables™ portfolio.
Atmospheric carbon:
Using captured CO2 and transforming it into base chemicals and polyolefins. We are working with our partners to bring this feedstock to our customers.
