SAUDI ARABIA BASIC INDUSTRIES CORPORATION (SABIC) in Automotive Plastic Additives

The SABIC’s Innovative Plastics division offers plastic additives for the automotive industry. It mainly offers Polyethylene ether resin additive. It also offers additives that are flame retardants, impact stabilizers, light stabilizers and anti-scratch agents. In 2014, the company launched the Lexan resin which was used in world’s first 3D printed concept electric vehicle. It is extremely light weight and offers impact resistance. The company is catering to OE as well as in aftermarket. Recently, SABIC (Saudi Arabia), has manufactured a heavy commercial vehicle for Scania AB, (Sweden), which has been efficient in operating economy by replacing metal with high-performance plastic resins. The overall truck weight was reduced by 40%.