Arkema, a leader in specialty materials, has earned ISCC PLUS certification of its specialty acrylic and alkyd resins, as well as its polyester liquid and powder resins in Navi Mumbai, India. This certification is part of the company’s global Mass Balance(1) offer roadmap. It will support its customers in India, Southeast Asia and Middle East with more sustainable solutions for coatings for energy and infrastructure efficiency, e-mobility, new technologies, urbanization, living comfort, and more.
Navi Mumbai is a key production and innovation hub in the region where we have been working on new solutions, including gradually substituting virgin fossil feedstocks with renewable and more circular sources, to improve our offer. This demonstrates Arkema’s commitment to support customers in pursuing their own sustainability goals and to bring more circular and lower carbon footprint solutions.”
This new certification will support the progressive introduction of a complete range of bio-attributed(2) specialty resins and additives, including high solids, waterborne, UV-LED-EB, and polyester powder materials. It also complements the recent certification of our powder coating resins facilities in Spain and Malaysia.
For more information, visit our website Resources section on mass balance.
(1) The mass balance traceability chain is a method used to track the flow of materials through a production system. and attribute the inputs of a production process, to outputs of that production process through certified bookkeeping. This distinct accounting method verifies that the certified feedstock has replaced an equivalent quantity of fossil raw materials at the beginning of the supply chain and can be attributed to the product-to-be-sold, ensuring that both input and output are balanced. [source ISCC]
(2) A bio-attributed content indicates that the use of a biobased or recycled feedstock has been ascribed using a mass-balance methodology. The bio-attributed content is the % breakdown based on the ISCC+ methodology calculation. [Source Arkema]