Lanxess has announced a company goal to make its entire value chain climate-neutral by 2050. This aim includes offering sustainable product variants for its entire portfolio of flavors and fragrances, preservatives and animal nutrition products by the end of 2023.
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Holger Hueppeler, head of the Flavors & Fragrances business unit, says, “With the transformation of our production, we are pioneers in offering sustainable products and are actively shaping the development towards more sustainability in the personal and home care industry. At the same time, we are helping our customers to achieve their own sustainability goals.”
The company states to have dropped the CO2 emissions of the entire business unit by more than a third since its foundation in 2021, from about 360,000 tons to around 230,000 tons annually.courtesy of Lanxess
Investing in Sustainable Raw Materials & Green Energy
According to the company, Lanxess' sustainable raw materials portfolio includes bio-based and circular raw materials as an alternative to crude oil derivatives, but also raw materials with a reduced carbon footprint through the use of renewable energies.
Lanxess has signed new supply contracts for green electricity for the Botlek (Netherlands) and Krefeld-Uerdingen sites. In Nagda (India), electricity and steam are now generated from biomass. The company claims to have dropped the CO2 emissions of the entire business unit by more than a third since its foundation in 2021, from about 360,000 tons to around 230,000 tons annually.
A prerequisite for the sustainable offer is the ISCC Plus certification of all five production sites of the business unit. The certificate ensures transparency about the use of sustainable raw materials along the entire value chain and is becoming the benchmark standard in the chemical industry.
