Overview

SABIC’s theme for K 2025 — Connecting Everyday Life — frames a booth that’s more than a product display. It’s a cross-market showcase where material science meets real-world customer needs. The goal: make clear, tangible links between new polymer solutions and everyday improvements in homes, workplaces, mobility, retail and healthcare.

Immersive Customer Experience & Booth Design

SABIC’s booth has been designed as an immersive customer journey. Instead of isolated product islands, visitors move through scenes that combine materials, design ideas and partner solutions to illustrate practical benefits — durability, recyclability, hygiene, weight reduction and aesthetic choice.

Five Everyday Areas: LIVE, MOVE, WORK, SHOP & CARE

The booth is organized around five core moments of daily life. Each area pairs real-world scenarios with SABIC’s material systems and partner collaborations so visitors can immediately see applications and benefits.

LIVE — Better Homes and Everyday Objects

Home-focused displays explore kitchen safety, easy-clean surfaces, lightweight furniture parts and materials that extend product life while simplifying maintenance.

MOVE — Lighter, Safer Transport

Mobility exhibits emphasize weight reduction, fuel efficiency, and durable trims that withstand intense wear — all designed to improve vehicle sustainability and user comfort.

WORK — Smarter, More Productive Settings

Office and industrial solutions highlight acoustics, ergonomic components and materials that support durability in shared or high-traffic environments. K2025

SHOP — Retail & Packaging Innovations

Retail installations showcase packaging that balances shelf impact with recyclability and reduced material use — designed in collaboration with brand owners and retailers.

CARE — Health & Hygiene-Forward Materials

Healthcare and personal care demos explore antimicrobial surfaces, medical-grade polymers and design-for-disinfection approaches that support safer environments.

Key Initiatives: TRUCIRCLE™ & BLUEHERO™

Two named initiatives anchor SABIC’s sustainability and performance story:

• TRUCIRCLE™ — circular solutions and feedstock strategies that enable reuse and recyclability at scale.
• BLUEHERO™ — designs and polymers that prioritize durability and resource efficiency for specific customer use cases. K2025

Both initiatives are woven throughout the booth, with use-cases that make lifecycle benefits tangible for brand teams and designers.

Visitor Engagement & Storytelling

Storytelling at K 2025 is concise and visual: quick vignettes show problem → material solution → customer benefit. This keeps technical depth accessible to decision-makers while offering deeper datasheets and contact routes for technical follow-up.

For digital visitors and press, optimized page assets (downloadable PDFs, short videos with captions, and a clear contact CTA) ensure the story travels beyond the show floor.

Final Notes

SABIC’s K 2025 presence translates materials expertise into accessible, customer-led narratives. By combining tactile demonstrations, cross-market use cases and named initiatives such as TRUCIRCLE™ and BLUEHERO™, the booth helps brand teams and designers quickly see practical value and next steps. K2025

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Overview

Leistritz Extrusionstechnik GmbH has achieved a major milestone in its ongoing collaboration with Brückner Maschinenbau, the global leader in stretched film production lines. The company is supplying a ZSE 180 MAXX – 32D extruder for Brückner’s latest BOPP film line, which boasts an unprecedented width of 12 meters.

This installation marks the creation of the largest and most advanced BOPP film line in the world, setting new standards for performance, scale, and innovation in the packaging and technical film sectors. K2025

Brückner’s Leadership in Stretched Film Technology

Brückner Maschinenbau is widely recognized as the global market leader in manufacturing lines for stretched films. Their systems are used across a wide range of applications, including:

• High-barrier packaging films
• Synthetic paper
• Technical films for capacitors
• Battery separator films

Brückner’s commitment to R&D, feasibility studies, and after-sales service ensures that its film lines deliver maximum performance and long-term reliability. The company’s technology is central to the production of high-performance films used in both consumer and industrial applications. K2025

Leistritz’s ZSE 180 MAXX: A Game-Changer

Leistritz’s ZSE 180 MAXX – 32D extruder is a flagship component of Brückner’s record-breaking BOPP line. Known for its robust design and high throughput, the extruder is engineered to meet the demanding requirements of large-scale film production.

Since 2022, Leistritz has delivered over 60 main machines from its ZSE 135 MAXX, ZSE 160 MAXX, and ZSE 180 MAXX series to Brückner. These extruders are used in:

• BOPP (biaxially oriented polypropylene) film production
• BOPET (biaxially oriented polyethylene terephthalate) film production
• Battery separator film manufacturing K2025

“This extruder is a key component of the world’s largest and most powerful film line – a true flagship project for Brückner Maschinenbau. At the same time, it represents a milestone for Leistritz as a trusted partner for twin screw extrusion technology.”

Huck emphasized that the ZSE 180 MAXX is helping to elevate BOPP film production to an entirely new level, thanks to its customized engineering and high-performance capabilities. K2025

Strategic Partnership & Industry Impact

The collaboration between Leistritz and Brückner is more than a supplier-client relationship—it’s a strategic partnership that drives innovation across the film production industry. Their joint efforts have resulted in:

• Customized extrusion solutions tailored to specific film applications
• Scalable systems that support increasing global demand
• Technological advancements in battery separator films

As the demand for high-performance films continues to grow—especially in sectors like electric mobility, electronics, and sustainable packaging—the partnership is well-positioned to deliver cutting-edge solutions. K2025

Future Outlook

With the successful deployment of the ZSE 180 MAXX in Brückner’s 12-meter BOPP line, both companies are setting the stage for future innovations. The project demonstrates how collaborative engineering can push the boundaries of what’s possible in film production.

Looking ahead, Leistritz and Brückner are expected to continue their joint development of next-generation extrusion systems that support sustainability, energy efficiency, and digital integration.

This milestone not only reinforces their leadership in the industry but also contributes to the evolution of global manufacturing standards for high-performance films.

Introduction

A groundbreaking pilot project by BASF, Porsche, and BEST – Bioenergy and Sustainable Technologies – has successfully demonstrated the chemical recycling of automotive fluff, a waste stream traditionally destined for incineration.

This initiative marks a significant step toward circularity in the automotive sector, offering a sustainable alternative to waste-to-energy processes.

Project Overview

The collaboration focused on the recovery of mixed plastic waste from end-of-life vehicle dismantling. This waste, known as “fluff,” includes:

• Plastic films K2025
• Coatings
• Foams
• Other non-mechanically recyclable materials

Until now, these materials were incinerated due to their complex composition. The pilot project explored gasification as a viable chemical recycling method to convert fluff into synthesis gas.

Technology Used

The gasification process was carried out using technology developed by BEST, an Austrian company specializing in bioenergy solutions.

“In our plant, we have previously converted biomass such as wood or straw into chemical raw materials,” said Matthias Kuba, Area Manager Syngas Platform Technologies at BEST. K2025

For this project, BEST adapted its high-temperature gasification system to handle complex plastic waste streams, combined with biomass, producing a synthetic crude oil known as syncrude.

This syncrude was then used by BASF to manufacture new automotive-grade plastics, including polyurethane steering wheels.

Results & Impact

The pilot confirmed that chemical recycling via gasification can:

• Recover valuable feedstock from mixed plastic waste K2025
• Reduce reliance on fossil raw materials
• Enable circular production of automotive components

Through certified mass balance attribution, the recycled material was successfully integrated into new products, demonstrating real-world applicability.

Industry Perspectives

Porsche, a key research partner, emphasized the strategic importance of such initiatives:

“Pilot projects like this allow us to evaluate how to further develop the circular economy at Porsche and integrate chemical recycling into our long-term strategy,” said Robert Kallenberg, Head of Sustainability at Porsche.

The company is actively exploring innovative recycling technologies to:

• Increase recycling rates K2025
• Access previously unusable waste sources
• Reduce incineration of valuable materials