Kuraray Poval and Mowital from Frankfurt am Main, Germany, are verifiably bio-based
Kuraray, the global speciality chemicals company headquartered in Japan, has obtained ISCC PLUS certification (International Sustainability and Carbon Certification) for its two production plants in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
The associated audit, which was performed by Berlin-based Control Union, comprised an audit of the products KURARAY POVAL (polyvinyl alcohol, PVA/PVOH) and MOWITAL (polyvinyl butyral resin, PVB resin). ISCC PLUS is a globally recognised voluntary sustainability certificate awarded, among others, for the plastics and chemicals markets. Its aim is to provide clear evidence of the sustainability of all raw materials along the entire value chain of a product.
Certification enables Kuraray to meet the growing demand from customers for traceable evidence of the sustainability of KURARAY POVAL and MOWITAL. Customers also benefit because they can use the ISCC PLUS certification to provide the necessary evidence for their own clients.
“Since ISCC PLUS is a recognised certification system, it enables us to provide clear evidence that the materials used to produce our products are truly bio-based and therefore sustainable. We are therefore a step ahead of the EU’s Green Claims Directive,” says Dr. Jörg Schappel.
He stresses: “We deliberately use biocircular variants rather than bio-based primary raw materials in the production of KURARAY POVAL and MOWITAL, because no company – including us – wants to compete directly with the production of food. Therefore, we only use second or third-generation raw materials, in other words, from plant residues and recycled biological materials.”
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