LUCOBIT AG, headquartered in Wesseling, Germany and former part of BASF, offers the following materials fit for use in recycling applications:

• two ethylene butyl acrylate copolymers (EBA):
  
• Lucofin® 1400HN
  
• Lucofin® 1400MN
  
• two maleic anhydride grafted (MAH) ethylene butyl acrylate copolymers (EBA):
  
• Lucofin® 1494H
  
• Lucofin® 1494M
  

All grades contain 16 % - 17 % butyl acrylate. On top of that, Lucofin® 1494M contain a high amount of grafted maleic anhydride. Their molecular structure explain many of their unique properties if added at moderate dosages to various kinds of plastic waste. Due to their low MFI Lucofin® 1400HN and Lucofin® 1492M are more suited for extrusion applications, whereas 1400MN and Lucofin® 1492M with their high MFI are used mainly in moulding applications.

The non grafted grades improve the mechanical properties of non polar mono-fraction plastics, while the grafted grades –often in combination with the non grafted grades to compromise technical performance as well as price competitiveness raise the mechanical properties of heterogeneous plastic waste as well as polar polymers.