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Arkema's innovation rewarded
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2010
Arkema awarded Pierre Potier prize for Kynar Aquatec®, a solvent-free paint resin for more energy-efficient air-conditioning
Launched in 2005 by Union des Industries Chimiques (UIC – French Chemical Industries Association) and Fédération Française des sciences pour la Chimie (FFC – French Federation for Chemical Sciences) under the aegis of the French Ministry for Industry, the Pierre Potier prize rewards companies that bring out innovations in the field of sustainable development. This year, Arkema has won top prize with Kynar Aquatec®, a PVDF (polyvinylidene fluoride) resin available for the first time as an aqueous formulation for the manufacture of roofs that reflect sunlight, therefore help reduce air-conditioning costs and achieve major energy savings.
2009
CECA designated winner of the ICIS Innovation Awards 2009, Best Product Innovation category, for its CECABASE® RT additives for “greener roads”.
Additionally, the jury awarded the prize for best overall innovation to this project from a record number of entries. This is the first year that the ICIS Innovation Awards have selected an overall winner.
This double prize rewards the environmental advantages and economic benefits of CECA’s formulations. These surfactant additives added in small amounts to the bitumen/aggregate mix help significantly reduce energy consumption (up to 50%) by allowing a 40 to 50°C decrease in production temperatures. They also notably improve working conditions and environmental impact in terms of emissions of carbon dioxide, dust, volatile organic compounds (VOCs), and nitrous oxides, in both the production and the application phases. These benefits can be achieved while keeping the end-properties of the bitumen constant or even improving them at reduced temperature: the workability of the mix when laid, the porosity of the compacted layer and its adherence are kept stable, while resistance to water of the asphalt mix is improved. This can be achieved without the need for clients to invest in additional equipment.
CECA, warm mix asphalt additives awarded Innovation Prize from «Autostrada Polska 2009» international tradeshow
CECA and its Polish partner ICSO ChP were awarded the Innovation Prize from the « Autostrada Polska 2009 » international tradeshow held in Kielce, Poland, in May 2009, for the CECABASE RT® 91 bitumen additive.
The « Bitumen » team from the CRRA Research Centre has developed additives within the CECABASE RT® surfactant range for CECA, comprising over 50% of renewable raw materials. Blended into the bitumen, these additives help lower the road asphalt application temperature by around 50°C without impairing the bitumen blend’s performance. With this technique, the granulate-bitumen mix can be transported over much longer distances from the production facility. It also gives the possibility to extend the construction period to the beginning and the end of the usual roadwork season.
2008
CECA rewarded by the International Road Federation for its CECABASE RT® warm mix asphalt technology.
" 12 projects from around the world are honoured in this way every year by the IRF [www.irfnews.org] for their outstanding contribution to the road industry, and we are extremely proud to be among the winners this year. With this award, it is our customers who actually reward our innovation, and this augurs well for our warm mix asphalt technology " explains Christophe Villain, CECA's Managing Director.
Also rewarded in France in 2007 with the Pierre Potier Prize for chemistry at the service of the environment, this technology has now been used in Europe since 2006. CECA can confirm that over 300,000 tonnes of warm mix asphalt incorporating CECABASE RT® were laid on European roads in 2007.
Pierre Potier 2008 Prize for Pebax® RNew
The Pierre Potier Prize, created in 2006 on the initiative of the French Ministry of the Economy, Finance and Industry, rewards every year chemical manufacturers who engage in innovation at the service of sustainable development. Arkema this year has been awarded the top prize for Pebax® Rnew, the first thermoplastic high performance elastomer with a renewable carbon content of up to 95%.
2007
Pierre Potier 2007 Prize for Cecabase RT®
Arkema, through its subsidiary CECA, has been awarded a medal for the Pierre Potier prize in the category « chemistry at the service of the environment » in recognition of its innovative formulations for bitumen blends. This major innovation helps reduce energy consumption on road construction sites, while significantly improving environmental impact and working conditions.
Arkema’s Centre de Recherche Rhône-Alpes has developed for CECA, the Company’s Specialty Chemicals subsidiary, a surfactant additive based on at least 50% renewable raw materials which, blended with the bitumen, helps lower by some 50°C the application temperature of the road surfacing material without impairing its performance. Compared with the traditional road surfacing process, the use of this additive cuts down energy consumption by up to 50%, leading to a drop in gaz emissions, and generates considerably less dust.
EPA’s 2007 Climate Protection Award for environmental stewardship
Arkema has received the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s 2007 Climate Protection Award for its continued leadership, innovation and achievement in improving the energy efficiency of its manufacturing sites and for developing products that reduce greenhouse gas emissions, specifically Fluorochemicals’ Transcend® additive technology, a blowing agent additive sold to the rigid foam market.
The award was presented on May 1, 2007 in Washington D.C.
2007 Nano 50TM Award recognizes Arkema’s controlled architecture polymers technology
Presented by Nanotech Briefs® magazine, the third annual 2007 Nano 50 Award recognizes the top 50 technologies, products and innovators that have significantly impacted, or are expected to impact, the state of the art in nanotechnology. The winners of the Nano 50 Awards are the “best of the best” – the innovative people and designs that will move nanotechnology into key mainstream markets.
Arkema earned the award for the development of a controlled radical polymerization (CRP) technology that produces polymers with highly controlled architecture using industry-standard free-radical polymerization techniques.
2006
Rilsan® Polyamide 11 for Biodiesel Wins BioAward 2006
Rilsan® PA11 received a “BioAward 2006” in the “Best Application, Non-Packaging” category for its application “Rilsan® Bioplastic for Biodiesel Fuel Lines”.
Arkema’s Rilsan® PA11 is now prescribed by several automotive contractors for biodiesel fuel lines in Europe and Brazil. Rilsan® PA11 indeed features superior ageing resistance to biodiesel at high temperature. This renewable source high performance bioplastic derived from castor seeds opens up the way to the use of biodiesel in automotive fuel lines.
U.S. Department of Energy Awards $6.27 Million Grant to Arkema Inc. and its Development Partners to Continue Fuel Cell Research
Arkema Inc. has been awarded a grant by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) in 2006 to continue support of their Fuel Cell project. The $6.27-million grant will be divided between Arkema Inc. and its development partners. The grant was awarded as part of President Bush’s Advanced Energy Initiative and supports the advanced membrane research begun in 2003.
Research on this project is being conducted at Arkema’s King of Prussia, PA technical center, which is the North American headquarters for research and development.
