Why did you develop Elium resin?® Guillaume Clédat – We wanted to make thermoplastic composite materials more accessible for our customers and easier to use. And that's what Elium resin does. It's easy to use as it is® liquid like other resins, which are currently very widely used, but with the advantage of being able to polymerize at room temperature and harden more quickly. This is a real technological breakthrough compared to epoxy thermoset resins, for example , which need processes that are often more costly and energy intensive as they need to be heated to harden. What applications are you aiming for? G.C. – There is a wide range of uses, owing to Ease of use, Elium resin’s intrinsic qualities. It can be used® to make a number of composite materials—with fiberglass, carbon, natural fibers—even with avery high rate of fiber. Arkema is a world markethigh performance, leader in specialty materials and this dominance improved means that we can target a number of industrial uses with Elium.® productivity and What industries are you targeting recyclability... with Elium?® G.C. – The advantages of this resin primarily Elium resin is® concern wind power, construction and civil engineering, transportation and hydrogen storage, a breakthrough as well as sailing. Elium is used in wind turbine® blades, composite reinforcement bars for concrete (rebars) in the civil engineering sector, in hydrogentanks and in sailboat hulls (see next double page). innovation. ELIUM, AN INNOVATION THAT HAS BEEN MAKING WAVES IN THE WORLD® OF COMPOSITE MATERIALS SINCE ITS LAUNCH 2016 2017 2019 2020 Launch of the Arkema Arkema wins a JEC Arkema wins a JEC Launch of 3 Mini 6.50 boat, Asia Innovation Asia Innovation Award the ZEBRA the hull and bridge Award for the use for the use of Elium® (Zero wastE of which are made of Elium resins® resins for manufacturing Blade ReseArch) from Elium resin,® in wind power bendable concrete project and first competition reinforcements. 05