MARLOW ROPES INTRODUCES BIO-BASED DYNEEMA

Marlow Ropes are proud to be using bio-based Dyneema®.  This new innovation reduces Dyneema®’s reliance on fossil fuels and helps Marlow achieve their sustainability and carbon footprint reduction targets.

Bio-based Dyneema® has identical technical characteristics and performance as conventional Dyneema® but uses waste from the pulp and timber industry as its primary raw-material.

Bio-based Dyneema® is ISCC certified, as sustainable and renewable via “mass-balancing”. This means that the Ethylene feedstock used to make Dyneema® is transitioned from conventional petrochemical sources to sustainable and renewable sources with no change to the manufacturing process or the quality and performance of the yarn! Therefore, any a rope made with Bio-based Dyneema® by Marlow, directly contributes to reduced CO2 emissions and has a lower environmental impact.

Every ton of Bio-based Dyneema® Marlow uses, reduces carbon emissions by 5 tons compared with a ton of conventional Dyneema®**.

And the comparison with generic HMPE is even starker – 1 ton of Bio-based Dyneema® produces 29 tons less CO2 than 1 ton of generic HMPE*.  That is equivalent to charging 3.7m Smartphones or the same CO2 offset by 480 tree saplings over 10 years

Source of information:

* https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/assets/downloads/Mass-Balance-White-Paper.pdf

** calculated by DSM Internal Life-Cycle Assessment