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Chemical materials as key contributor to automotive circularity Roman Karlubík

President of the Association of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Industry of the Slovak Republic,

• n behalf of PlasticsEurope

Overview of chemical materials in mobility The chemistry is omnipresent in today's automobile...

...with creative solutions for electromobility

The chemistry in the „E-machine"

Bushings Polyimid Bearing shell Polyacetal Connectors Polyamid Anlaufpilz PI Plastic housing PBT Bearing shell LCP Insulating foils Polyester Insulation sheet metal Insulation impregnants Insulating hoses PTFE Insulation wire lacquer Plastic housing Polyester Slot insulation Para - Aramid Insulating foils Polyimid Stator insulation Para-Aramid

Inorganic high performance lubricants PTFE

Plastics are a key contributor to innovation in mobility

Why use plastics in automotive?

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Plastics increase safety, for example through airbags Increase durability

• ver vehicle life time

Allow ergonomics, driver comfort and styling freedom Because they offer tailor-made solutions Allow to take out weight, enabling emissions and fuel reduction, for example through the use of lightweight materials

Plastics are innovative lightweight materials

• Weight loss is thus critical if CO2 emissions and the

associated fuel costs of a car are to be reduced. Reducing the weight of the bodywork of an average car by 100 kg cuts the CO2 emissions by 10 gr/km

• The weight savings of all the plastic parts used

thus represent a reduction of 750 liters over the 150,000 km life of an average car. These weight savings also represent a cost reduction for the consumer of approximately 1,000 EUR (at 1.33 EUR/liter)

• EU Parliament calls for Weight reduction:
• Heavier vehicles = more energy needed
• Plastics save energy and reduce CO2 emissions
• Plastics are crucial for passenger safety
• Reducing the effect of vehicle impact on

pedestrians, cyclists and other road users

• The drive for lower CO2 emissions continues to gather

momentum in the 21th century

• The use of innovative plastics in cars is helping the

automotive industry to cut both costs and emissions

Increasing use of lightweight and composite materials

Plastics recovery at the end-of-life

• Plastics can also be recovered when a vehicle reaches its end-of life stage, being either recycled, re-used or

transformed into energy or fuel, thus helping to meet the EU’s End-of-Life Vehicles Directive

• Plastics recovery includes:
• Using plastic parts from accident, damaged or end-of-life vehicles to repair cars e.g. head or rear lamps,

wash fluid tanks and lids, accessories (such as wings, mats, ashtrays, cup holders, etc.), seats, airbags, dashboards and bumpers

• Mechanical recycling: Material reprocessing of end-of-life plastics from Automobile Schredder Residue

(ASR) or from automobile parts such as bumpers and battery housings into plastic products

• Feedstock recycling: Material reprocessing by chemical means into basic chemicals, monomers for plastics
• r hydrocarbon feedstock
• Energy recovery: use of waste plastics as a means to generate and recover energy

Lithium Recycling

• R & D project sponsored by BMU: Construction of a pilot plant
• Raw material: Separated and pre-treated lithium-containing active materials from

EV batteries

• Process:
• Extraction
• Purification
• Salt splitting
• End products:
• High-purity lithium salts
• Transition metal salts or solutions
• Direct re-use of lithium salts

for new battery materials

Development in the Slovak Republic

500 1 000 1 500 2 000 2 500 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

Sales revenue (EUR mln)

Plastics in primary forms Rubbers products Plastics products Source: Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic

Indicators 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 Sales revenue (EUR mln)

20 022 21 351 21 228 24 590 25 817

Exports (EUR mln)

15 648 16 764 16 781 19 357 20 969

Value added (EUR mln)

2 266 2 486 2 584 2 911 3 093

Number of employees

60 788 61 181 60 463 65 544 70 175

Automotive industry Connecting industry

New investments to the R&D in Automotive industry

Context of Circular Economy in the Slovak Republic

The goals for SVK:

• Recycling of 50 % from municipal waste production by 2020
• Reduction of biodegradable waste which are landfilled to 35 % by

2020

• Waste package – reduction of landfill to 10 % of waste, which

are produced after recycling or disposal of waste by 2030 The option for SVK:

• Application amendment of Coll. 79/2015 – implementing

1.1.2018

• Preparing of new Law on Waste Fees – commenting of the

proposals

• Consistent separation of municipal and biodegradable waste