Sustainability is change

Sustainability has many facets. What are you concerned with? Reducing energy consumption in the construction sector? Supporting the transformation of mobility? Making cities more resilient? Conserving resources like water or sand? Our polymeric binders and raw materials are already part of many of these solutions – often used in small quantities, but usually providing high added value. For us, this is just the beginning. Let’s seize this opportunity together! For an economy and society built on clear and verifiable sustainability principles.

We start with ourselves.
The goal: carbon neutrality by 2045

Over the past decades, we have continuously reduced our specific energy consumption, waste generation and water consumption. As chemical production is particularly energy-intensive, a particular focus has been on reducing energy consumption and switching to a renewable energy supply wherever possible. But it is not only in the area of energy supply that we want to reduce the use of fossil raw materials. With our eco-product concept, we are also reducing the use of fossil raw materials in our products, by offering, for example, VINNAPAS^® eco VAE binders or VINNOL^® and VINNEX^® eco resins.

We are a producer of polymer raw materials and, like many of our customers, we are at the beginning of the value chain. This is both a challenge and an opportunity. By thinking about the carbon footprint and potential of our products from the outset, we can make a valuable contribution to the transition to an economy built on sustainability principles. We are therefore pursuing a clear portfolio strategy focused on solutions that help our customers improve the environmental performance of their products or introduce new technologies with measurable sustainability benefits.

We support our customers.
Focus: the development and implementation of sustainable solutions

Our polymeric binders and additives enable a range of technologies that help reduce CO₂ emissions. For example, our binders typically boost the performance of construction products – by lowering material demand and extending renovation cycles.

We see that the chemical industry is now coming up with more and more scalable approaches to meet this requirement. Some of the carbon-reduction options are low cost and can be implemented easily. But many carbon-reduction options come at a high cost and require discussions between suppliers, WACKER and customers about the implementation strategy.

We create transparency.
The approach: comparable product carbon footprints (PCFs) for each product

If you want to reduce your ecological footprint, you first need to know where you stand. This is why we have been working with emissions data at product level since 2010. Today, we can provide our customers with Product Carbon Footprints (PCFs) for each of our products. The PCF represents all of the greenhouse gas emissions associated with manufacturing a product up until it leaves the plant. The PCF is calculated in accordance with international standards using AllocNow’s Product Sustainability Platform.

Calculations are based on our actual product and process data – an approach that, unlike those calculation methods that are based on the chemical formulation and which are greatly dependent on the quality of the formulation data, makes for high-quality data. Customers can use the PCFs to determine their Scope 3 emissions more accurately.

We seek out change.
How: through close cooperation with all stakeholders

Innovation will be one of the keys in the transition to a more sustainable economy. And it’s not just about the big inventions. Over the past 100 years, we have seen that many small changes also lead to success. Let’s work together to pull out all the stops – from greater use of renewable raw materials and recyclable packaging to logistics and the question of how we can work together to make end-of-life of products more sustainable.