3M™ Dyneon™ Fluoropolymer Up-Cycling | Closing the loop

Re-using precious materials without sacrificing the capability characteristics was an illusion... This year, effective Up-Cycling of valuable perfluorinated material has become a reality.

Up-Cycling is the answer to anybody concerned with the environment and the use of exhaustible raw materials such as fluorspar. Close the loop and make a true sustainability effort with the world´s first innovative Up-Cyling method. An innovative and ground breaking process of depolymerising fluoropolymers has been developed by us, Dyneon GmbH, a 3M Company subsidiary, in co-operation with technology institute InVerTec and the University of Bayreuth. We have successfully started up the pilot Up-Cycling plant in Burgkirchen, Germany. The construction was subsidised with nearly 1 million Euro by the Federal Environment Ministry of Germany.

Resources are finite, so sustainability and responsible raw material handling are key to the future. Protecting the environment is more than just goodwill – but a regulatory requirement with increasing importance. Landfill is not just costly, it also includes logistic efforts and people-intensive processes. So what is an alternative to deposition and incineration: Up-Cycling the fully fluorinated polymers! Closing the loop when perfluorinated polymers reach their end of life and not just Re-Cycle and downgrade it. But Up-Cycle the material back into its pure starting materials – ready to be polymerized and manufactured into the next generation of material with 100 % perfect features and unlimited performance.

To explain the process, our capabilities and progress further, we have created a brochure explaining Up-Cycling of fully fluorinated polymers in more detail.

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Up-Cycling | Closing the loop (EN version)

Up-Cycling | Die intelligente Lösung (GER version)