Material manufacturer Covestro has secured the ISCC (International Sustainability and Carbon Certification) PLUS certification for its site in South Deerfield, Mass., USA. The site is produces high performance specialty films used in many applications across multiple market segments, such as healthcare and mobility. The company’s polycarbonate compounding facility in Newark, Ohio, as well as its third-largest site worldwide, Baytown, Texas, had already received this important certification. It underscores the company’s commitment to sustainability and enables it to supply customers with thermoplastic films for medical packaging and other applications made from recycled and bio-attributed raw materials.
“Healthcare manufacturers are increasingly adopting sustainable materials to reduce their carbon footprint, and it is our goal to help customers reach their sustainability ambitions,” said Sam Shodi, Head of Specialty Films North America, Covestro.
According to Shodi, the Makrofol® polycarbonate film provides the transparency, toughness and sterilization suitability needed for many medical applications an example of which is medical implant packaging. “This advancement meets the demands of our healthcare customers, where sustainable materials are crucial for reducing environmental impact while maintaining high quality and safety standards,” he concluded.
With the mass balance approach, bio-based or recycled raw materials are fed in at an early stage of raw material extraction and mathematically allocated to the finished products. This saves fossil raw materials and reduces CO2 emissions, while the quality of the mass-balanced products remains identical to that of purely fossil-based products. With this drop-in solution, manufacturers can continue to use their proven formulations, equipment and processes.
ISCC is an internationally recognized sustainability certification for biomass and bioenergy. The standard covers all stages of the value chain and is used worldwide. Covestro has major sites across all regions that are ISCC PLUS certified. Among them are world-scale sites like Baytown, Texas; Leverkusen, Dormagen and Krefeld-Uerdingen, Germany; Shanghai, China; Map Ta Phut, Thailand; and Antwerp, Belgium.
