Axalta Receives International Sustainability and Carbon Certification Plus
This milestone further reinforces Axalta’s commitment to ensuring sustainability remains central to every part of its business.
Edited by Lori Beckman
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Axalta Coating Systems has become the first manufacturer within the powder coatings industry to receive International Sustainability and Carbon Certification Plus (ISCC Plus) for biobased feedstock sourcing practices. This milestone further reinforces Axalta’s commitment to ensuring sustainability remains central to every part of its business, including helping customers accelerate their own sustainability initiatives and achievements, the company says.
Developed to support the transition toward carbon-neutrality and create a sustainable bioeconomy that minimizes waste production, the certification assesses compliance with key sustainability principles aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations, which are aimed at ending poverty and protecting the planet.
Axalta earned ISCC Plus following a third-party audit of its supply chain and production processes, which validated its ability to successfully produce a selection of its coating formulations using bio-based resins. Such solutions are identical to incumbent polyester resins derived from fossil fuels in terms of quality and properties but enable, on average, a carbon dioxide emissions reduction of 25%, accounting for small variances between coating types. This enables environmentally conscious decision makers within industrial markets to access coatings solutions from sustainable and fully traceable sources.
The use of bio-based solutions, which come from non-food organic waste and contain significantly lower levels of embodied carbon, offers the cheapest and fastest path for customers to reduce scope 3 emissions.
Aligned with its goal to support our customers in reducing their emissions, Axalta will launch the first bio-based product range in Europe in the coming months.
