Greenhouse gas emissions must be reduced. There is only limited availability of fossil fuels. Challenges that we face!

Keltan® Eco is our response to an urgent call from you: to increase the eco-friendliness of rubber. As the leading EPDM rubber manufacturer, we have succeeded to produce the world's first EPDM rubber based on renewable raw materials:

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Keltan® Eco
High-tech rubber based on ethanol from sugar cane

This world premiere is staged at the Triunfo site in Brazil. November 2011, biobased ethylene flew directly by pipeline from our partner Braskem to our EPDM plant. We will be converting some of our production operations, to manufacture about 10,000 metric tons of our new biobased rubber annually for the global market.

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Keltan® Eco uses ethylene based on sugar cane

Ethanol derived from this basic material is dehydrated into ethylene and polymerized to produce EPDM

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