BioMass Balance

BioMass Balance is the process of replacing fossil resources with renewable ones, which contributes to a more sustainable economy, saving fossil raw materials, avoiding waste, and cutting CO2 emissions. Join the mission and reduce your impact on our planet.
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BioMass Balance

We're adjusting the balance.

By replacing the fossil resources with renewables from organic waste or vegetable oils, we're drastically reducing CO2.
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BioMass Balance

With this approach, part of the fossil resources are replaced by renewable ones such as bio-naphtha or biogas from organic waste or vegetable oils. This share of biomass is then mathematically allocated to the new product line for automotive refinish products using an independently certified method. By using this approach, 100% of the fossil resources can be replaced with renewable resources.

Explore Glasurit BioMass Balance products and find

  • Impressive savings

  • High efficiency

  • Premium quality

  • Low CO2

Reducing CO2 with renewable resources

Here are some of the achievements we've already made with our Eco Balance products thanks to our innovative Biomass Balance and CCycled® technologies (as of August 2024). And we are far from finished…
65%

REDUCTIONS

Up to 65% reduction in CO2 emissions*
6000t

SAVINGS

6,000 tons of CO2 has been saved**
58M km

NOT DRIVEN

Equals to car emissions over 57,994,606km**
1449x

EARTH EQUIVALENTS

Same as driving around the world 1449 times**

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Made to make a difference.

BioMass Balance

Join the mission and reduce your impact on our planet.

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*Example Non-biomass Clear coat vs. Eco Balance / Biomass Balance Clear coat (A-C-10: 3kg CO2/L vs. 1 kg CO2/L). Cradle to gate PCF, BASF own calculation for sample product using average values, product specific PCFs can be provided upon request.**

**BASF product carbon footprints are calculated following the requirements and guidelines of ISO 14067:2018 and Together for Sustainability (TfS). The product carbon footprints for biomass balance products are assessed cradle to gate, i.e. without CO2 emissions caused during product application and end-of-life treatment. Our product carbon footprint data is based on assumptions and approximations valid at the time of data collection. For ChemCycling products, product carbon footprint benefits for the recycled feedstock can be generated via displaced end of life (e.g., incineration) following the upstream system expansion approach (USE). For more information visit this page.

Eco Balance products contribute to reducing the use of fossil resources and reducing the CO2 emissions via the mass balance approach. In BASF’s mass balance approach, renewable or recycled raw materials are used when manufacturing primary chemical products and are fed into the production Verbund. The proportion of bio-based or recycled raw materials is then arithmetically assigned to certain sales products according to a certified method. For our mass balance products, 100% of the feedstock required for these products (chemical product only, excluding packaging material) have been replaced by renewable or recycled resources. All our Eco Balance products are independently certified according to the RedCert² standard (BASF certification number REDcert²-929-35372286). For more information, please visit this page. When reference is made to CO2savings per traveled kilometer, a standard CO2 emission of 95 grams per travelled car kilometer is assumed.

References to equivalent numbers of end-of-life tires refer to a standard tire of 8.8 KG and an assumption of the available tire mass for pyrolysis and a conversion factor for the pyrolysis process. You can find more information about BASF’s mass balance approach on this page.

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