MIAMI, May 9, 2024
/PRNewswire/ -- At its Responsible Care® and
Sustainability Conference 2024, the American Chemistry Council
(ACC) honored six member companies and one external
organization with its 2024 Sustainability Leadership Awards,
recognizing innovative products, technologies and initiatives that
help advance sustainability.
"ACC member companies are advancing sustainability in the
chemical industry and creating innovative products, protecting the
environment, promoting circularity, and engaging with their
communities," said Chris Jahn, ACC
President and CEO. "The exemplary achievements of these ACC members
demonstrate the progress that the chemical industry is making to
enable solutions to real-world sustainability challenges."
"ACC members are moving the needle on critical sustainability
issues through innovation, collaboration, and technologies that
enhance the safety and environmental impacts of our products and
operations," said Mitchell Toomey,
ACC Vice President of Responsible Care and Sustainability. "We are
proud to recognize these ACC members and their collaborators that
are having a meaningful impact on our society."
2024 Sustainable Leadership Award Winners
ACC
recognized 2024 Sustainability Leadership Award winners in the
following categories:
Product Safety, Innovation & Transparency
Award
Products, processes or initiatives that promote
safe use of chemicals, transparency, informed sustainability
decision-making and innovation to reduce risk.
The paint shop in an automotive equipment manufacturing factory
accounts for 50 to 70 percent of energy use in automotive assembly.
PPG Industries Inc.'s ENVIRO-PRIME® EPIC 300
helps reduce carbon dioxide emissions and lowers energy consumption
in the automotive manufacturing process. ENVIRO-PRIME®
EPIC 300 can be applied to electric vehicle assemblies with heavier
metal mass while also using less energy and heat. The result is
reduced energy input by 11 to 13 percent and reduced CO2
emissions, leading to improved decarbonization efforts while also
producing cars with long-lasting corrosion resistance.
Environmental Protection Award
Products, processes
or initiatives that address the environmental impacts of company
products or operations.
EFC Gases & Advanced Materials has developed an
innovative Neon Gas Recycling System that addresses a key
environmental issue in semiconductor manufacturing. The industry
relies heavily on the use of semiconductor-grade neon as a buffer
gas in its deep-ultraviolet lasers, essential for chip fabrication.
Given neon's natural scarcity in air, achieving such high purity
requires an energy-intensive and costly process through the
cryogenic distillation of liquid air. Neon is also highly
susceptible to global shortages. EFC's approach tackles these
sustainability challenges by capturing and recycling spent neon
from the laser exhaust, enhancing supply chain resilience, reducing
the environmental impact of neon production, and minimizing
resource waste.
Circularity Award
Products, processes or initiatives that promote
circularity.
Celanese operates one of the world's largest active
carbon capture and utilization (CCU) projects at its Clear Lake,
Texas, site as part of its Fairway
Methanol joint venture with Mitsui & Co., Ltd. The project
expects to capture 180,000 metric tons of CO2 emissions
that would otherwise enter the atmosphere and produce 130,000
metric tons of low-carbon methanol annually. This low-carbon input
is then used to reduce traditional fossil fuel-based raw materials
to produce a wide range of Celanese ECO-CC products that can
benefit most major industries. These products provide sustainable
solutions that will help move toward a circular economy.
Social Responsibility & Community Engagement
Award
Initiatives and programs that help build and connect local
communities, elevate standards of living, and promote equity,
diversity, and inclusion.
DuPont's Clear into the Future®
(CITF) grant program is aimed at protecting and improving the
natural environment through community engagement and education. The
program is an employee-driven initiative that provides funding for
projects in communities served by DuPont that are aligned with
CITF's mission to drive positive impact by protecting the
environment and empowering communities to thrive. All CITF projects
are aligned with one or more key priority areas, including climate
change adaptation and mitigation, water stewardship, circular
economy, and biodiversity.
External Collaborator Award
Recognizing an organization that has collaborated with an ACC
member on an initiative that has made significant contributions to
drive sustainability and innovation.
Cyclyx is a post-use plastic innovator that develops
solutions to find new recycling options for plastic waste. Cyclyx
is a joint venture among Agilyx and ACC members
ExxonMobil Product Solutions Company and
LyondellBasell. Cyclyx addresses a critical missing link in
the plastic waste supply chain by implementing 10to90®
all-plastic collection landfill-diversion connecting community
programs. Cyclyx's ability to chemically fingerprint plastic
creates new recycling possibilities for various advanced recycling
technologies. A wider variety of plastic materials, including
hard-to-recycle materials like used food packaging, synthetic
grass, packaging foam, bubble wrap, and more, now has the potential
to enter a recycling pathway because of Cyclyx.
Awards Selection Process:
ACC convened a
judging panel made up of external sustainability leaders from
academia, industry, nonprofit and media sectors to review and
select the award winners. The judging panel chose winning
initiatives based on a range of factors, including the level of
innovation the initiative demonstrated, the scope and reach of its
impacts and the extent to which it addresses priorities outlined in
ACC's Sustainability Principles and the UN Sustainable Development
Goals. ACC received 56 applications from nearly 30 ACC member
companies.
American Chemistry Council
The American Chemistry
Council (ACC) represents the leading companies engaged in the
multibillion-dollar business of chemistry. ACC members apply the
science of chemistry to make innovative products, technologies and
services that make people's lives better, healthier and safer. ACC
is committed to improved environmental, health, safety and security
performance through Responsible Care®; common sense
advocacy addressing major public policy issues; and health and
environmental research and product testing. ACC members and
chemistry companies are among the largest investors in research and
development, and are advancing products, processes and technologies
to address climate change, enhance air and water quality, and
progress toward a more sustainable, circular economy.
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