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Performance-driven green chemistry.™
What If?The Journey to a More
Sustainable Future
Mark MaxwellMay 20, 2016
Overview
Why Who
WhatHow
CircularNext Steps
Starting with the End in Mind• Can Resinate® help support CARE’s
mission?• Yes- PET carpet is a potentially viable
alternative source of PET • But…
• it comes with some inherent process challenges
• strong potential upside for all involved if successful
Resinate Materials Group®
Why?
Alignment of Missions
CARE• The mission of CARE is to
advance market-based solutions that increase landfill diversion and recycling of post-consumer carpet, encourage design for recyclability
Resinate®
• Pioneering green chemistry solutions based on recycled content
• Turning Waste Streams into High-Performance Polyols
What if?
Photo of sunrise over a closed landfill.
“Leave your campsite better than you found it”
Resinate Materials Group®
Who?
Resinate Materials Group• Founded in 2007• Headquartered in Plymouth, MI• Focused on Performance-Driven Green Chemistry™• Upcycling spent molecules into value-added
applications• Specifically turning PET waste into high-
performance Polyols• Working to advance the circular economy and the
movement towards a zero-landfill vision
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What?
Great!
A chemical intermediate or building block that is used in junction with isocyanates and other additives, to form the backbone of such end products as coatings, adhesives, sealants, elastomers, and foams.
But what’s a Polyol?
0.5% Amine
13.4% Polyol
6.7% Soybean Oil
13.4% Isocyanate
60% Water
1.0% Iron Oxide
5% Wax
Polyols in Polyurethane Floor Coatings
Coatings Adhesives & Sealants
Elastomers
Flexible Foam
Rigid FoamSpecialty Foams Inks
Value Chain
Recycled Feedstock
Polyol
• Global polyol market = 20 B lbs./yr. in 2015.
• Recycled and bio-based polyol market = 1.87 B lbs./yr. in 2015.
• Recycled and bio-based polyol market expected to grow twice as fast as overall polyol market over next 4 years.
Global Polyol Market Size
Green Polyol and Bio Polyol Market, MarketsandMarkets, 2012
Global CASE Specialty Polyols Market - 2015
Global Polyols Market, MarketsandMarkets, 2012
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Coatings Adhesives Sealants Elastomers
Billion lbs./year
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How?
Post-Industrial/Post-
Consumer PET Waste
PET Waste Stream B
Proprietary Process
Technology
Proprietary Polyester Polyols
Specialty Marketse.g. Coatings;
Adhesives; Plasticizers; etc.
Proprietary Process Technology
Commercial Sale
Manufacturing
Potential closed-loop system -
Circular Economy
Commodity Marketse.g. Foam
PET Waste Stream A
PET Carpet(P/I & P/C)
Pre-process
PE
T Waste Input
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Circular?
Circular Economy• Economic growth can happen for the benefit of the
environment, instead of at its expense
• A way to find harmony between the environment and the economy
• Turning waste into resources, preserving the environment and improving human safety and quality of life
• Creating new value chains and synergies that decouple growth from the use of scarce and linear resource inputs
Polyester Polyol
Carpet Backing
P/I or P/C Carpet Waste
Foam Manufacturing
CarpetManufacturing
Circular EconomyRecycled PET
Resinate®
PET Carpet
CircularEconomy
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What’s Next?
PET Carpet Processing Challenges and Needs:
• Primary value resides in efficiently accessing the PET (Fiber)• Post Industrial an easier source versus Post Consumer
• Cleaner - less pre-processing - a higher quality input for Specialty applications
• Managing all of the non-PET components and waste streams-e.g. PP; SRB Latex; CaCo3; other
• Understanding, measuring, controlling the level of contaminants
• Pre-process and in-process complexity to manage all of the above
Starting with the End in Mind• Can Resinate® help support CARE’s
mission?• Yes- PET carpet is a potentially viable
alternative source of PET • But…
• it comes with some inherent process challenges
• strong potential upside for all involved if successful
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