Covestro has announced that it will dramatically extend the reach of its product portfolio for the circular economy, following the ISCC (International Sustainability and Carbo Certification) PLUS certification of its site in Baytown, Texas (USA). 

The Baytown site is the company’s largest operating facility in North and South America and its third-largest production site worldwide. 

With this most recent development, all of Covestro’s major sites are now certified by the internationally recognised ISCC Plus standard. It’s other 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 even more customers around the world with an easily accessible, more sustainable product portfolio," says Sucheta Govil, Chief Commercial Officer of Covestro. "Customers in North America can now reduce their carbon footprint and Scope 3 emissions with drop-in, mass-balanced materials derived from recycled and bio-attributed products."

Covestro is the first manufacturer of polyurethane and polycarbonate raw materials to receive this certification in the United States, the company stated in a press release.

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.

Covestro expects to begin supplying select ISCC PLUS-certified products from its Baytown facility in the second half of 2023.

The products will be produced using a mass-balance approach. Sustainable raw materials will be accounted for throughout both the value chain and production process, allowing for an accurate attribution to the end products. The existing production infrastructure will be utilized while reducing the carbon footprint of the final products.

ISCC is an internationally recognized sustainability certification for biomass and bioenergy. The standard applies to all stages of the value chain and is recognised worldwide.

Source: Covestro