Arkema achieves a milestone in its coatings products portfolio carbon footprint reduction
Colombes, France – Arkema has set the groundwork for carbon footprint reduction across its Coating Solutions value chain in 2024, with a unique global approach as it achieves multiple Mass Balance ISCC PLUS certifications in the US, Europe and Asia; covering major coating technologies. This allows Coating Solutions to reduce up to 100% the carbon footprint of its mass balance products, supporting the development of more sustainable solutions for coating applications in fast-growing markets such as green energies, emobility, living comfort, building efficiency and advanced electronics.
“Replacing virgin fossil feedstocks with biobased or recycled sources is essential to circular economy. The mass balance approach allows to accelerate this transition by integrating renewable and recycled feedstocks into supply chains while keeping the same level of performance.” said Richard JENKINS – SVP Coating Solutions, Member of Executive Committee. “More ISCC+ manufacturing sites certifications are expected in 2025 to further reduce product carbon footprint to support our customers and partners across the value chain to meet their sustainable development objectives.”
Nine Arkema ‘s sites have been certified over the past 12 months, covering a complete range of bio-attributed solutions from upstream acrylic monomers to downstream specialty resins and additives for high solids, waterborne, UV/LED/EB, and powders coating technologies.
IN ASIA: China (waterborne acrylic resins and additives, UV/LED/EB curing resins and acrylic monomers)
IN EUROPE: Spain (polyester resins for powder coatings); France (waterborne acrylic additives, UV/LED/EB curing resins and acrylic
monomers); Germany (acrylic resins)
IN THE US: Texas (acrylic monomers)
This roadmap will continue in 2025 as Arkema actively supports their customers in their sustainability journey by expanding the accessibility to lower carbon footprint solutions including bio based, recycled based and bio attributed products.