Perstorp Provides PCF Values for About 85% of Its Sustainable Products

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Perstorp aligns with the new industry standard for product carbon footprint (PCF), developed by the industrial initiative Together for Sustainability. Perstorp can already provide product carbon footprint values for about 85% of its products (based on sales volume) and is continuously adding more products.

Emphasis on CO₂ Emissions Reduction

The focus on product carbon footprint is strongly increasing, in line with the emerging emphasis on reducing CO₂ emissions and sharing carbon footprint at a product level. Perstorp currently has product carbon footprint values for more than 80 products, which corresponds to about 85% of the sold volume.

The values are updated annually, based on production plant-specific conditions. All the PCF values for Perstorp´s Pro-Environment products, contributing to the sustainable transformation of value chains by substituting fossil feedstock with renewable and recycled, are ISCC PLUS certified.

Carbon footprint data is central for companies working towards CO₂ emission reduction targets, and for making informed decisions by comparing the footprint of different products.

To enable companies further down the value chains including brand owners to make carbon footprint calculations of their individual products, it is crucial that the chemical industry can provide this data for their products, which in turn are raw materials used in thousands of end products.

Renewable & Recycled Alternatives to Fossil Feedstock

“Transparently sharing this type of information with our customers is an important part of being a sustainable solutions provider and serving value chain needs. Product carbon footprint is an important way of providing value with our Pro-Environment products,” said Anna Berggren, VP Sustainability at Perstorp.

“It shows how they reduce CO₂ emissions by substituting fossil feedstock with renewable or recycled alternatives, which gives an effect for all downstream parties and products in the value chain,” continued Berggren.

“We have products already today that are climate positive up to our gate when including biogenic CO₂ uptake, and we will continuously reduce the carbon footprint of all our products along our reduction roadmaps towards reaching our Science-Based emission reduction targets in 2030,” added Berggren.

As part of the joint initiative Together for Sustainability, companies from the global chemical industry have agreed on a global guideline for calculating product carbon footprints. Perstorp was one of several companies who evaluated and tested the new methodology during spring 2022.

Perstorp has been calculating and sharing product carbon footprint values with customers for many years but has now also developed a digital tool that makes it easy and accessible to share the values with customers.

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