Covestro has announced that its largest operating facility in North and South America and its third-largest production site worldwide has now also earned ISCC plus certification. That site, in Baytown, Texas, now joins the list as the last to do so of the other major Covestro sites to have received this certification: Leverkusen, Dormagen, Krefeld-Uerdingen (Germany), Shanghai (China), Changhua (Taiwan), Map Ta Phut (Thailand), Antwerp (Belgium) and Filago (Italy).
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.
Calling the achievement a ‘milestone’, achieving certification will enable Covestro to serve more customers around the world with a more sustainable product portfolio, said 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 expects to begin supplying select mass-balanced ISCC PLUS-certified products from its Baytown facility in the second half of 2023. 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 utilised while reducing the carbon footprint of the final products.