Sabic, a global diversified chemicals company, has been awarded five of the prestigious Edison Awards 2023 for its innovative solutions for the third year in a row. 

 

Edison Awards honours the world’s most innovative new products, services and business leaders, and this is the second year in a row that Sabic received at least five Edison awards.

 

Sabic won 3 gold and 2 bronze awards across three separate areas for its new products and solutions. These areas include “Food and Agriculture”, “Material Science” and “Sustainability.”  These awards reflect Sabic’s commitment to pushing the limits of science, technology and innovation and defining the future of chemistry that allows Sabic and its customers to address some of the world’s biggest challenges.

 

New technology

“Sabic is proud to be recognised for the third consecutive year by Edison Awards, demonstrating our continued leadership in new technology and innovation advancements. These are key elements of our continued business growth on our journey to be the preferred world leader in chemicals and provide innovative solutions for the future that create a more sustainable world,” said Abdulrahman Al-Fageeh, CEO at Sabic.

 

The diversity in the award categories reflect Sabic’s wide range of innovative solutions. Notably, for its sustainability contribution, the Edison Awards recognised Sabic’s collaboration in the innovative development of a frozen food packaging solution that uses recycled ocean bound plastic.  

 

Recognised as a gold award winner within the “Green Remediation” category, the solution uses Sabic’s Trucircle certified circular polyethylene from feedstock sourced from post-consumer plastic waste recovered from oceans feeding areas and rivers. 

 

Circular product

The solution was designed in collaboration with manufacturer of flexible film products, Polivouga and the brand owner Nueva Pescanova Group, who specialise in products like frozen seafood, making it a truly circular product.

 

In the “Food and Agriculture Advancements” category, Sabic was recognised as a gold award winner for its Blue Urea solution, a sustainable, low-carbon nitrogen fertiliser. Sabic Agri-Nutrients produced the product using ammonia that has a zero-carbon footprint and recently achieved the world’s first independent certification for blue ammonia production. 

 

The third-party certification was made by TÜV Rheinland, a leading independent testing, inspection and certification agency. To be certified as “blue”, a significant part of the CO2 associated with the manufacturing process needs to be captured and utilised in downstream applications. 

 

Crop yield

Also, in the food and agriculture area, the Edison Awards bestowed a bronze award to Sabic’s Next Generation Fertiliser that increases crop yield while reducing the need for large amounts of fertiliser. The unique multi-nutrient foliar fertiliser was developed with crop yield-building and protecting components in a single formula to provide nutrition and stress protection to plants. Sabic studies on the formulation have shown an improvement of up to 17% in yield with up to 25% reduction in fertiliser use.

 

Finally, in the final “Material Science” category, the Edison Awards recognised Sabic for their innovative heat-resistant resins that can be used in electric vehicles and on cutting-edge circuit boards. Sabic’s Norly resin received the bronze award in the “Enhanced Performance” subgroup. 

 

The resin can be used as an insulation film on EV batteries and charging systems to increase safety. Additionally, the Extem resin, which received the gold award, offers manufacturers the capability to mount optical connectors onto printed circuit boards, simplifying assembly processes and enabling mass production of circuit boards needed for technology products.

 

The Edison Awards are named after Thomas Alva Edison, whose inventions, product development methods, and innovative achievements helped change the world.  Established in 1987, the Edison Awards are dedicated to recognising, honouring and fostering innovations and innovators, and the annual competition honors excellence in new product and service development, marketing, design and innovation.-- TradeArabia News Service