The company obtained ISCC+ certification for its powder coating resins facility located in Sant Celoni, Spain; as part of a larger initiative designed to decarbonize the global coating value chain.
The accreditation of the site at Mobile allows Evonik to produce and market its renewable isophorone-based, VESTA eCO series in the United States for the first time.
The targets are recognized as being consistent with levels that climate science says are necessary to limit average global warming to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels.
ISEAL is a global membership organization that helps sustainability systems accelerate change on critical global challenges, drive impact, and establish markets.
According to the report, the need for sustainable manufacturing solutions is driving the growing market interest in self-healing materials, polymers, and coatings.
According to EcoVadis, Scott Bader's sustainability rating has increased to Gold thanks to the implementation of additional measures to report on environmental management, its commitment to reducing emissions by 60% by 2025, and its commitment to be completely carbon neutral by 2028.
JUST ranks the largest publicly traded U.S. companies on the companies’ performance in the following five categories: treatment of workers, communities, customers, shareholders/governance, and environment. PPG has been included on this list since 2018.
According to the report, there is growing consumer demand and regulatory push for bio-based chemicals, materials, polymers, plastics, paints, coatings, and fuels with high performance, good recyclability, and biodegradable properties to underpin a transition towards more sustainable manufacturing and products.
This is the second consecutive year IVL has received this ranking. Factors that increased the company’s score include its ambition to use 16% bio-based and 10% recycled raw materials (rPET) as feedstock by 2030, and safer green chemistry substitutions to reduce toxicity from raw materials and production processes.