Specialty chemicals company LANXESS has reached an important step toward more sustainability in its portfolio of polyols and oxidation products (POP): The Advanced Industrial Intermediates (AII) business unit now offers more sustainable solutions for around 80% of its POP portfolio. Seven of the nine products, including the chemicals trimethylolpropane (TMP), adipic acid (ADA), 1,6-hexanediol (HDO) and phthalic anhydride (PSA), have already successfully completed LANXESS’s internal Scopeblue certification. The remaining ones are to follow soon.
“As a result, we will be one of the first producers to offer our customers a choice between conventional products and products with an improved carbon footprint,” says Dr. Stephan Deutsch, Head of the Business Line POP at LANXESS. Sustainability is now much more than an end in itself for the chemical industry. “Already around 50 percent of our customers have set themselves fixed climate targets for the coming years, similar to LANXESS,” Deutsch continued. “We are therefore convinced that Scopeblue will open up important opportunities for us in the markets.”