Orion improved its score from the previous year, moving up from 72 to 77 points – just one point away from receiving a Platinum medal rating.

The specialty chemical producer of carbon black products has signed deals with multiple companies to distribute their products in Central America and the Caribbean. 

With the help of new control technology, the company will be able to reduce its air emissions produced during the production of carbon black.

Effective January 17, 2023, ION Specialties will represent Orion’s specialty carbon black product lines for paints, coatings, inks, adhesives, and plastics throughout Mexico.

Since 2017, Orion has disclosed its climate-related performance through CDP. Until now, the company has received a “C” score, indicating an awareness level of engagement. CDP says companies with a “B” score have reached the management level. Accordingly, a company with this score has addressed the environmental impacts of its business, and ensured good environmental management.

Orion Engineered Carbons announced it has become the first to achieve International Sustainability and Carbon Certifications (ISCC Plus) for multiple carbon black grades made from different feedstocks at plants in two regions of the world.

Specialty chemicals provider Orion Engineered Carbons announced that it will complete its gas black expansion in Germany at plants in Dortmund and Cologne by early 2023.

Specialty chemicals company Orion Engineered Carbons announced plans to build a plant in the United States that will produce acetylene-based conductive additives.

Orion Engineered Carbons announced it aspires to align its sustainability objectives with the Paris Climate Agreement and strive to achieve net-zero emissions of greenhouse gases by 2050.