Bio TPU racing ahead in Green Sports Footwear

Markets: Sports footwear & accessories industries

Polymer: Renewable Thermoplastic Polyurethane (Bio TPU)

Key performances:

Transparent
Non Food, Renewable-sourced material
Light weight
Contributing to up to 40% less CO₂ emissions
Equal or better performance than oil-based TPU

The use of renewable-based materials is a growing trend that allows you to enhance your image of environmental friendliness by reducing your impact on the environment. However, to be considered for sport goods, bio-based resins need to ensure equal or even better performance and cost competitiveness vs existing products!

For your green sport shoes and accessories applications, Pearlthane® ECO TPU is a good alternative to standard petroleum based TPUs, CoPA and CoPEs:

Pearlthane® ECO TPU exhibits a good combination of abrasion resistance, light weight and cost performance, as illustrated in Figure 1:

Hardness 95A

CoPA

Pearlthane® ECO TPU

Abrasion Resistance (mm²)

50

35

Transparency

No

Yes

Density (g/cm³)

1.02

1.15

Price

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Figure 1: Cost/Performance profile of Pearlthane® ECO 12T95 versus CoPA

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Figure 2 shows that renewable-sourced Pearlthane® ECO TPU grades have an improved Hydrolysis resistance comparing to that of Standard 100% petroleum-based TPU grades:

Figure 2: Hydrolysis Resistance of Pearlthane® ECO 12T95 versus petroleum based TPU

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Pearlthane® ECO TPU brings a sustainable solution to the OEMs serving the Sports footwear & accessories industries with a set of differentiated benefits such as:

20% minimum renewable content
Reducing CO₂ emissions vs. standard petroleum-based TPU up to 40%
100% recyclable in a standard recycling process, as illustrated in Figure 3:

Figure 3: Recycled Pearlthane® ECO 12T95 shows equal performance as non-recycled TPU