Sustainable thermoplastic elastomers (TPEs) from bio-based or recycled materials

Recycled or bio-based materials have a major role to play in the transition to a circular bioeconomy to meet the ambition of the European Union, which aims in its Green Deal for a climate-neutral Europe by 2050.
In this project, Certech collaborates in the study of chemical recycling by pyrolysis of thermoplastic elastomers to confer durability to these materials whose properties are very useful and innovative (shape memory, conductivity, malleability under pressure, etc.).
Certech’s activities within the framework of this project are based on its following expertise:
• Chemical recycling of thermoplastic elastomers
• Factory of the future
• Intensified / continuous processes
• Heterogeneous catalysis
• Characterization of the physicochemical properties of oils resulting from the pyrolysis of thermoplastic elastomers