As part of its continued focus on sustainable innovation, Synthomer introduces a new and easy way for customers to identify and choose lower-carbon products within its portfolio.
Easily distinguished and identifiable by a CLIMA brand tag that is added as a suffix to the product name, these products deliver at least a 20% reduction in the product carbon footprint compared to a specified baseline year. This reduction is achieved through using more energy-efficient methods or the use of renewable energy in the production process.
The first CLIMA branded products from the REGALITE™ family, manufactured on Synthomer’s Middelburg, Netherlands site, are now commercially available.
Michaela Hofbauer, Vice President of Sustainable Innovation and Marketing for Synthomer's Adhesive Solutions division, comments: “We are offering products with a validated and quantifiable CO2 footprint reduction, which can be counted against our customers’ goals, aligned to the Science Based Targets initiative.”
Chris Brown, Vice President of Environment, Social and Governance at Synthomer, comments: “Reducing the industry’s carbon footprint is a shared responsibility that requires collaboration along the whole value chain. We aim to create value for customers and consumers and help them achieve their sustainability goals.
“By providing our customers with the transparency they need to understand the environmental impact of the products they rely on, we can enable them to make more informed decisions about sustainability.”
CLIMA is the latest addition to Synthomer’s brand tags, bringing additional clarity and transparency to its customers and value chains. Synthomer’s current brand tags include BIO, highlighting products with at least 20% bio-based certified content, helping to reduce reliance on fossil-based resources, and CIRCLE, highlighting products with at least 20% circular certified content, supporting a circular economy.
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Synthomer plc is a leading supplier of high-performance, highly specialised polymers and ingredients that play vital roles in key sectors such as coatings, construction, adhesives, and health and protection – growing markets for customers who serve billions of end users worldwide. Headquartered in London, UK and listed there since 1971, we employ c.4,000 employees across our five innovation centres of excellence and 31 manufacturing sites across Europe, North America, Middle East and Asia.
Our purpose is creating innovative and sustainable solutions for the benefit of customers and society. Around 20% of our sales volumes are from new and patent protected products. At our innovation centres of excellence in the UK, China, Germany, Malaysia and USA we collaborate closely with our customers to develop new products and enhance existing ones tailored to their needs, with an increasing range of sustainability benefits.
Our 2030 decarbonisation targets have been approved by the Science Based Targets initiative as being in line with what the latest climate science says is necessary to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement, and since 2021 we have held the London Stock Exchange Green Economy Mark, which recognises green technology businesses making a significant contribution to a more sustainable, low-carbon economy. Find us at www.synthomer.com or search for Synthomer on LinkedIn.