Sustainability pillars

Growing Our Sustainable Solutions Through Innovation

A growing share of bio-based and biodegradable products and circular raw materials

We work together with customers, suppliers, universities, and other partners to develop innovative and sustainable solutions that have smaller footprints or enable our customers to be more sustainable. These include a growing share of bio-based and biodegradable products and recently introduced, circular raw materials.

Megatrends drive growth opportunities with higher performing and more complex solutions

Our end-markets are driven by societal megatrends and the associated trends influencing our customers, among them, increasing demand for: eco-friendly and more-natural, bio-based products; renewable energy and raw materials; biodegradable solutions; reduced carbon emissions, and recycling improvements.

Eco-Premium Solutions

Our Eco-Premium Solutions are products that offer significant sustainability benefits over mainstream alternatives in the market while providing the same or better functionality. These benefits can apply to several specific criteria (e.g. toxicity, energy use, use of natural resources, emissions and waste, land use, risks, health).

When making comparisons, we ensure that our solution does not have adverse effects on any of the other criteria. Megatrends drive growth opportunities with higher performing and more complex solutions. When developing these solutions, we put special focus on delivering environmental benefits, as well as direct benefits to our customers’ operations. Examples are bio-based polymers and Dissolvine®, readily biodegradable chelating agents for more sustainable detergents.

Eco-Premium Solutions

In 2022, 34% of our revenue came from the sale of Eco-Premium Solutions
In 2022, 34% of our revenue came from the sale of Eco-Premium Solutions

Key facts

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>30

partnerships with universities, customers, and institutes

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~77%

of R&D pipeline is focused on solutions with sustainability benefits

 

>2,000

individual patents covering key developments in 60 countries

We are responding to continued growth in customer sustainability demands with our innovative solutions

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Product innovations - Examples of how we are growing our sustainable portfolio

Our product innovations are increasingly focused on bio-based, biodegradable, and circular solutions, including natural polymers in Home and Personal Care and cellulose-based raw materials in Paints and Coatings. Other innovations include our range of biodegradable and bio-
based products, such as chelating agents, surfactants, and polymers based on natural materials.

Expancel® HP92 microspheres innovation reduces weight, withstands high pressure

Breaking boundaries for thermoplastic microsphere fillers in high-pressure manufacturing processes for the automotive industry

Expancel® HP92 microspheres

Sustainable hairstyling

We deliver proven performance for styling formulation needs – from polymers and biopolymers to eco-friendly propellants for hair aerosol-based products and improving current solutions to meet demand for “silicon-free” products.

A natural alternative paint thickener

Bermocoll® Flow combines the flow and levelling properties of an associative synthetic thickener with...

Bermocoll® Flow

Meeting global demand with new biodegradable-chelates production facility

As a leading producer of high-performing, biodegradable chelates worldwide, we meet increasing global demand for innovative and sustainable chelates for the rapidly growing consumer cleaning industry.

First Chinese CID License for Leading PVC Producer

Our customers around the world are demanding more sustainable solutions and are therefore making the shift to CID technology for PVC production. This technology allows customers to increase reactor output, while improving productivity and energy consumption, product quality, and operational safety.

Continuous Initiator Dosing (CID) technology

Renewable textile fibers

We help our customer develop their recycling chemistry. Focusing on more sustainable textiles, we have partnered with Renewcell to provide specialty chemicals and engineering solutions for a new textile recycling plant in Sweden.

Water-soluble polymer

A bio-based water-soluble polymer with applications in personal care, mining, food, and pharma...

VOC-free paint additive

Our Ethylan EF-60 is a volatile organic carbon (VOC)-free additive for premium waterborne paint products which delivers freeze thaw stability; enables low-odor, safe formulations; and enhances appearance without compromising performance or finish.

Biodegradable binders and adjuvants

We have developed a biodegradable binder for seed treatment, encapsulation technology for actives and sustainable adjuvants. Our Adsee AMP40, a salt-free, biodegradable, all-in-one adjuvant offers a cost-efficient solution to customers in the global agricultural market.

People discussing micronutrients deficiency in citrus in Peru. Our Micronutrients are essential ingredients in agricultural markets.

Sustainable Agriculture

Nouryon's agronomists travel to the world’s most remote places to teach customers and other partners, how to make use of chelated micronutrients in drip irrigation techniques which make agriculture possible on poor soils or in arid areas.

Supplying Suzano via new Nouryon Integrated Manufacturing Model (IMM)

Under a 15-year agreement signed in 2022, Nouryon will commission its IMM for the world’s leading producer of eucalyptus pulp.

Investing in agricultural artificial intelligence

Nouryon continuously assesses investment opportunities in emerging and sustainable technologies that have the potential of becoming a disruptive force in our addressable end-markets, including those of our Agriculture and Food Business Line

A closer look....energy saving cool-roof coatings

We combined our Expancel (expandable microspheres) and Levasil (colloidal silica) technologies to create a concept for cool roof coatings. This combination makes it possible for customers to produce coatings that resist dirt and are highly reflective.

The higher reflectivity reduces absorption of heat into buildings, which means less need for cooling, increased energy efficiency, and lower greenhouse gas emissions. These coatings can reduce roof temperatures by up to 15 degrees Celsius and cooling energy used by over 40%.

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A closer look....sustainable pulp production

We are the largest global supplier of sodium chlorate and the leading supplier of chlorine dioxide generators and Integrated Manufacturing Models to the global pulp industry. We are also committed to continually delivering pioneering solutions to the global pulp and paper industry. Learn more about our pioneering solution for the pulp and paper industry:

  • Sustainable manufacturing processes, reducing environmental footprint
  • Proximity to customer point-of-use reduces transportation, increasing eco-efficiency and safety
  • Energy derives from the pulp mill (biomass)

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Anti-viral and environmentally friendly paint

Anti-microbial agents in paints and other materials can play a key role in helping to keep surfaces clean and safe, for example in hospitals. The challenge is to ensure that these antimicrobial agents are not harmful to the environment.

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Learn more - Nouryon's sustainability pillars

Improving our safety performance and environmental footprint

We continuously work to improve our safety performance and environmental footprint for the benefit of our employees, contractors, customers, neighbors, and the environment

Growing our sustainable solutions through innovation

We provide solutions that are essential in applications ranging from pharmaceuticals and farming to electric cars and building insulation. Our goal is to deliver not just the desired functionality but improved sustainability performance as well.

Engaging people, partners, and society

At Nouryon, we aim to achieve sustainable business growth and have a positive impact on people’s everyday lives through our essential solutions as well as our actions.

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