Our commitment to the environment, our employees and our communities includes dedicating resources to evaluate the safety and health aspects of our products and raw ingredients. Our Product Stewardship and Toxicology experts develop programs to assess and manage risks to human health and the environment, and to communicate information to our employees and customers. Meeting our commitment includes developing internal processes and programs and to comply with the increasingly complex product and chemical regulations and restrictions.

The company believes the stewardship of our natural resources and the responsible development of sustainable materials and processes will enhance the growth of our business, support growth for our customers’ businesses and help to solve environmental challenges. Understanding impacts across our product lifecycle helps to focus efforts in the most important areas. The product lifecycle areas where we can have the most significant impact are using more sustainable raw materials such as recycled and bio-based feeds, improving the operational efficiency of our own manufacturing sites, helping our customers to develop more sustainable designs, and continuing to strive for less impactful chemistry in our final products.

Our sustainability programs go beyond how we operate our business and include what we design and sell in the market. We have a culture of innovation and product development that has delivered sustainability benefits to our clients and stakeholders throughout our history. Today, we continue this tradition of sustainable innovation by developing materials that are inherently more sustainable than common practice in the market (e.g., recycled content) and by working with our customers to use plastics effectively to achieve sustainability benefits beyond the gates of our business (e.g., automotive light-weight design for fuel economy, energy efficient window materials). We see continued innovation in the area of environmental sustainability as a growth initiative for our business and we continue to invest accordingly. More information on our Sustainability Programs can be found here

The company’s sustainability claims are validated by recognized third party standards and, where there are no third party standards, they are verified by Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methods. We also score ourselves via the Life Cycle Inventory (LCI) methodologies, based on the ISO 14040 and ISO 14044 standards and Green Chemistry Screen (GCS): This component of the scorecard guides the assessment of the chemical composition of the product, including impurities, byproducts and catalysts, against well-established toxicological, regulatory and industry standard criteria. The results of the scorecard are used to develop environmental benefit claims that are subjected to a rigorous, independent review by GreenOrder.