The American Chemistry Council (ACC) recognizes seven member companies and one external organization with its 2021 Sustainability Leadership Awards for innovative products and technologies that help advance sustainability. The awards recognize achievements and contributions to sustainability in priority areas covered by ACC’s “Sustainability Principles”:
- Product Safety, Innovation & Transparency, for products, processes or initiatives that promote safe use of chemicals, transparency, informed sustainability decision-making and innovation to reduce risk;
- Environmental Protection, for products, processes or initiatives that address the environmental impacts of company products or operations;
- Circularity, for products, processes or initiatives that promote circularity, and;
- Societal Contributions, for products, processes or initiatives that illustrate a commitment to innovating for a sustainable future for society.
In addition, ACC’s “External Collaborator” award recognizes an organization that has collaborated with an ACC member on an initiative that has made significant contributions to sustainability.
“From products that enable carbon and greenhouse gas emissions reductions, to initiatives that reduce waste and give new life to otherwise discarded materials, to programs that help enhance quality of life for people around the world, the chemical industry plays a critical role in addressing and solving global sustainability challenges,” says Chris Jahn, ACC’s president and CEO. “I am proud to recognize these ACC members and their collaborators that are having a meaningful impact on our society.”
ACC recognized the following 2021 Sustainability Leadership Award winners in the following categories:
Product Safety, Innovation & Transparency
Chemours, for its “EVOLVE 2030” methodology, which enables the company to evaluate its portfolio of products to identify their specific contributions to the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Clariant, for its low-carbon glucamides, a broad range of sugar-based surfactants used in personal care and home care product formulations that offer a combination of mildness and powerful foaming and cleaning performance attributes with lower emission profiles, helping to reduce the carbon dioxide (CO2) footprint of consumer product formulations.
Environmental Protection
DuPont, for its reformulated Froth Pak Spray Foams for building sealing and insulation, which use hydrofluoroolefin (HFO) blowing agents combined with CO2 to deliver significant GHG emission reductions while enhancing performance of building insulation and sealant products.
Eastman recently became the first company to begin commercial-scale molecular recycling for a broad range of plastics materials, including traditionally hard-to-recycle items such as colored PET, PET thermoforms, and items made from resin identification codes #4 through #7.
Societal Contributions
Arkema for its “Sustainable Castor Oil” initiative, which helps drive sustainable castor oil farming in India, advancing quality of life for thousands of farmers, while developing the feedstock for manufacturing Rilsan polyamide 11, an ultra-high-performance resin chemistry derived entirely from renewable castor oil.
Croda International Plc for its Avanti Lipid Nanoparticle (LNP) Technology, which helped facilitate the rapid clinical development and deployment of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.
External Collaborator
Nonprofit organization TechnoServe and Solvay for their partnership aimed at developing sustainable guar production in India.
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