TAGS: Sustainability / Natural Cosmetics Perfumes & Fragrances
Dow (NYSE: DOW) announces the launch of two new sustainable varieties of propylene glycol (PG) solutions in North America featuring bio-circular and circular feedstocks.
Suitable for a wide range of applications, customers can now offer their high-performance products with externally verified sustainability benefits thanks to a mass balance approach.
Helps Customers Achieve their Circularity and Sustainability Goals
The mass balance approach tracks the flow of bio-circular and circular materials used to manufacture PG through complex value chains and attributes it based on verifiable bookkeeping; an approach that recently achieved ISCC PLUS certification in Freeport, Texas.
This achievement marks the first time a Dow PG manufacturing plant in North America has achieved ISCC PLUS certification.
Using innovative technologies, two new sustainable PG products are now available in North America and certified by ISCC PLUS:
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Propylene Glycol CIR featuring Renuva™ recycled content helps customers close the loop and process hard-to-recycle post-consumer and post-industrial waste into sustainable feedstocks.
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Propylene Glycol REN featuring Ecolibrium™ bio-circular technology enables a reduction in the use of fossil fuel-based feedstocks.
The new PG solutions, CIR and REN, are designed to help customers achieve their circularity and sustainability goals. These are suitable for a wide range of applications in industries such as personal care, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, food ingredients, flavors,
fragrances, agriculture and industrial.
As Dow accelerates its sustainability journey, the company continues to seek new and innovative ways to incorporate alternative feedstocks, particularly those with a circular origin or derived from post-industrial consumer waste, to create more sustainable solutions.
The mass balance approach makes use of verifiable bookkeeping to trace and attribute the flow of sustainable materials through complex value chains without changing the production process.
“We are proud to set a precedent for more sustainable material production in North America, demonstrating our commitment to advancing sustainable production and products for our customers,” said Thales de Oliviera, business sustainability leader for the Americas for Dow Polyurethanes.
“The demand for circular and bio-circular material for polyurethane end-markets is increasing, and by using our advanced recycling technologies, we can now offer our customers the same high-quality products with increased sustainability benefits.”
Source: Dow
