Sasol Chemicals recently introduced SASOLWAX LC100, an industrial wax grade with a 35% lower carbon footprint, expanding the company’s growing sustainable product portfolio. The product is designed for use in packaging adhesives, delivering superior capabilities while achieving significant cradle-to-gate product carbon footprint (PCF) benefits.

SASOLWAX LC100 follows the recent introduction of SASOBIT LC, Sasol’s lower carbon solution for the asphalt industry. Both wax grades offer drop-in alternatives to the benchmark grades, enabling customers to significantly reduce their Scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions without compromising on performance.

"With a 35% reduction in carbon footprint without compromising on quality, our lower carbon product range allows customers to significantly improve their sustainability performance while meeting the highest industry standards," said Dirk Uys, vice president sales. "We are committed to expanding this significant improvement in the PCF to more markets and applications, enabling customers across other industries to benefit from our sustainable solutions."

Third-party Verification

Sasol Chemicals' model for calculating PCFs for its GTL FT wax value chain has undergone a third-party review and complies with ISO 14067, an international standard that outlines the requirements and guidelines for quantifying the carbon footprint of products throughout their life cycle.

"Our teams have worked hard to come up with a solution which our customers have been seeking: significantly reducing carbon footprint, but keeping superior performance," Uys said. "An independent third party verified our methodology to calculate the PCFs. This rigorous approach ensures our customers can confidently choose our more sustainable wax solutions as drop-in alternatives to significantly reduce their Scope 3 emissions."

Sustainable Alternatives

In the packaging and adhesives market, where hot-melt adhesives (HMA) are prevalent, Sasol's SASOLWAX LC100 grade provides the same properties and performance benefits as Sasol's industry standard SASOLWAX H1, including:

• Enabling odorless, clear HMA formulations in combination with metallocene polymers, through low viscosity, high crystallinity and stability.
• Smoother, thinner adhesive application, resulting in more box closures with less adhesive per closure.
• Enabling high-speed packaging lines due to fast set times.
• Improved durability and stability.
• Outstanding thermal stability, boosting operational efficiency for HMA manufacturers.

For more information, visit Sasol Chemicals' website.