United States. With ISCC (International Sustainability and Carbon Certification) PLUS certification from its production site in Baytown, Texas (USA), Covestro is significantly expanding the scope of its circular economy product portfolio.
The Baytown site is the company's largest operating facility in North and South America and its third largest production site in the world.
The most recent achievement is significant, with all major Covestro sites now certified to the internationally recognised ISCC PLUS standard. In addition to Baytown, certified sites include Leverkusen, Dormagen, Krefeld-Uerdingen (Germany), Shanghai (China), Changhua (Taiwan), Map Ta Phut (Thailand), Antwerp (Belgium) and Filago (Italy).
"Thanks to this new milestone, Covestro will soon be able to serve more customers around the world with a more sustainable and easily accessible product portfolio," said Sucheta Govil, Commercial Director of Covestro.
"North American customers can now reduce their carbon footprint and Scope 3 emissions with mass-balanced materials derived from recycled and bioattributed products," added Govil.
Covestro is the first manufacturer of polyurethane and polycarbonate raw materials to receive this certification in the United States.
The certification is an important milestone for both Covestro and the industries it serves, including the automotive, construction, comfort, electronics and appliance industries, which will now have access to ISCC PLUS-certified products made from more sustainable raw materials in North America.
To underline how the products support both the company's vision of becoming fully circular and its customers' journey towards greater sustainability, Covestro has introduced a special branded product line with the suffix "CQ".
CQ, which stands for 'Circular Intelligence', is a product portfolio with attribution of at least 25 percent alternative raw materials derived from biomass or recycled plastics.
Covestro also introduces the name Evocycle CQ for all evolutionary recycling processes. The first project of its kind is called Evocycle® CQ Mattress and denotes an innovative chemical recycling technology for polyurethane foam for mattresses.
Covestro currently has more than hundreds of CQ products and is continuously expanding this portfolio.
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