Industry-wide regulatory pressure is pushing coatings manufacturers to assess PFAS use, explore alternatives and prepare for sweeping chemical restrictions.
The company announced that four of its U.S. sites have reached net-zero Scope 2 electricity emissions through a renewable energy agreement with Ørsted.
ALTANA announced its plan to achieve net zero emissions across its entire value chain by 2050, with a focus on reducing greenhouse gas emissions in Scopes 1, 2 and 3.
This comes as vessel owners and operators face stricter regulatory requirements, while roughly six in ten say they will invest in anti-fouling coatings to reduce their vessels' carbon emissions.
All of the company's manufacturing locations in Latin America are now operating on 100%-renewable electricity, further boosting the company’s ambition to reduce carbon emissions across the full value chain by 50% by 2030. Read examples of how the company is moving towards this goal, globally.
The company acheived its carbon negative goal and is now California Green Business certified in addition to earning the EcoVadis silver medal and Greenly Silver status.
The company has calculated the individual product carbon footprints (PCF) of both chemical products.The analysis shows that due to production setup, the PCFs of BDO and derivatives such as PolyTHF are significantly below the global average PCF of the corresponding third-party chemicals that are all produced from fossil-based raw materials.
