ISCC

Matchbox Launches New Mercedes-Benz Die-Cast Car to Celebrate the Reveal of the All-New Electric G-Class

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Tuesday, April 30, 2024
Environment, EV, Electric Vehicles, Automotive, Toys, Chemicals, Plastics, Manufacturing, Sustainability, Retail, Recycling, ISCC, Mass, Part, SRP, Plastic, Multimedia, Mercedes-Benz, Mercedes-Benz G-Class, Toy

The new die-cast vehicle was created to celebrate the iconic Mercedes-Benz G-Class and the recent reveal of its all-new electric model.

Key Points: 
  • The new die-cast vehicle was created to celebrate the iconic Mercedes-Benz G-Class and the recent reveal of its all-new electric model.
  • The premium die-cast car features recycled metal and a minimum of 81% ISCC-certified plastic (mass balance approach*), highlighting how Matchbox is evolving its product offerings.
  • The new die-cast vehicle was created to celebrate the iconic Mercedes-Benz G-Class and the recent reveal of its all-new electric model.
  • The Matchbox Mercedes-Benz all-new electric G-Class die-cast Moving Parts Series will be available at retailers nationwide this fall for $2.99 SRP.

Charter Next Generation's South Carolina Site Earns ISCC PLUS Certification for Sustainable Practices

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Thursday, April 11, 2024
Carbon, Food safety, PLUS, ISCC, Investment, Certification, Sustainability, CNG, Superior, Blythewood, South Carolina, Accreditation

ISCC PLUS is a voluntary certification scheme that certifies bio-based, circular (recycled) and renewable materials, as well as different chain of custody options, such as mass balance.

Key Points: 
  • ISCC PLUS is a voluntary certification scheme that certifies bio-based, circular (recycled) and renewable materials, as well as different chain of custody options, such as mass balance.
  • "This certification validates our ongoing investments in sustainable product development and our commitment to advancing circularity and reducing greenhouse gas emissions."
  • "This marks the fourth CNG plant to achieve ISCC PLUS certification, representing a significant milestone in our journey toward a more sustainable future as we expand certification across our operations," said John Corsi, Chief Operations Officer at CNG.
  • CNG's Lexington, OH site, one of the single-largest extrusion sites in the world, achieved ISCC PLUS certification in 2022.

Celanese Completes Series of Strategic Actions Across its Global Acetyl Chain

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Tuesday, April 9, 2024
Sustainability, Chemicals, Plastics, Environment, Manufacturing, Carbon, Methanol, Adhesive, Building material, VAE, Acetyl group, CE, Acetic acid, Corporation, Food packaging, Carbon monoxide, CCU, Plant, ISCC, AC, Chemical substance, CO2, RDP

Celanese Corporation (NYSE: CE), a global specialty materials and chemical company, today announced several strategic milestones at its Clear Lake, Texas, and Nanjing, China, plants to enhance the competitive cost position, sustainable footprint and operational flexibility of the Acetyl Chain (AC) business and allow it to meet future demand growth.

Key Points: 
  • Celanese Corporation (NYSE: CE), a global specialty materials and chemical company, today announced several strategic milestones at its Clear Lake, Texas, and Nanjing, China, plants to enhance the competitive cost position, sustainable footprint and operational flexibility of the Acetyl Chain (AC) business and allow it to meet future demand growth.
  • The low-carbon methanol can provide customers with low-carbon ECO-CC AC and Engineered Materials downstream products for a wide range of consumer applications.
  • The startup of a new vinyl acetate ethylene (VAE) unit in Nanjing and completion of global, low-capital downstream redispersible polymer powders (RDP) debottlenecking projects.
  • The Celanese subsidiary, Celanese (Nanjing) Chemical Co. Ltd., has extended its CO Phase II contract with Nanjing Chengzhi Clean Energy Co., Ltd. for the supply of carbon monoxide to its facility in Nanjing.

Organic Gardening Brand Back to the Roots Launches Its Fan Favorite Soils in Select The Home Depot Stores Throughout Austin, Dallas, and Houston

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Tuesday, April 9, 2024
Seed, Dream, Tractor Supply Company, PCR, Soil, Walmart, ISCC, Organic, The Home Depot, Home, Root, Fertilizer

DALLAS, April 9, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Announcing today, organic gardening company Back to the Roots has launched its Texas-made Organic Potting Mix, Garden Soil, and Raised Bed Mix in select The Home Depot stores throughout the Austin, Dallas, and Houston markets. About an hour outside of Houston, Back to the Roots has been cultivating its 100% organic, peat free soil to package into its first of its kind, 100% post-consumer recycled bags.

Key Points: 
  • DALLAS, April 9, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Announcing today, organic gardening company Back to the Roots has launched its Texas-made Organic Potting Mix, Garden Soil, and Raised Bed Mix in select The Home Depot stores throughout the Austin, Dallas, and Houston markets.
  • About an hour outside of Houston, Back to the Roots has been cultivating its 100% organic, peat free soil to package into its first of its kind, 100% post-consumer recycled bags .
  • Back to the Roots' soil is 100% peat-free, created instead by upcycling local, high quality green waste, like plant trimmings, into the base for its premium soils.
  • Back to the Roots products for indoor and outdoor gardening are available online as well as in over 10,000 retail locations nationwide.

AdvanSix Achieves ISCC PLUS Certification Advancing Sustainable Manufacturing Across Its Value Chain

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Tuesday, April 2, 2024
Other Manufacturing, Environment, Textiles, Packaging, Chemicals, Plastics, Sustainability, Manufacturing, Agriculture, Recycling, Natural Resources, Carbon, Certification, PLUS, Organization, ISCC, Textile, Nutrient, ASIX

AdvanSix (NYSE: ASIX), a diversified chemistry company, today announced it has been certified to the International Sustainability and Carbon Certification (ISCC) PLUS standard for three of its manufacturing sites, including Frankford, Pa., Hopewell, Va. and Chesterfield, Va.

Key Points: 
  • AdvanSix (NYSE: ASIX), a diversified chemistry company, today announced it has been certified to the International Sustainability and Carbon Certification (ISCC) PLUS standard for three of its manufacturing sites, including Frankford, Pa., Hopewell, Va. and Chesterfield, Va.
    ISCC PLUS is a globally recognized, voluntary certification system for developing sustainable supply chains.
  • Verified through an in-depth audit, the ISCC PLUS certification verifies and validates the adoption of clear, transparent and traceable practices, especially for organizations applying the mass balance approach to track amounts and sustainability characteristics of feedstocks.
  • “Achieving ISCC PLUS certification reflects our commitment to supporting sustainable manufacturing for a better world.”
    The current ISCC PLUS certification covers AdvanSix’s vertically integrated sites in Frankford, Hopewell and Chesterfield, which supports production of nylon solutions, plant nutrients and chemical intermediates.
  • AdvanSix’s ISCC PLUS certification enables customers to accelerate progress in meeting their sustainability goals in the creation of many downstream products, from robust packaging and fashionable textiles to fuel-efficient cars and durable electrical wiring.

Celanese Achieves ISCC CFC Certification for Low Carbon CCU Methanol

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Thursday, March 21, 2024
Alternative Energy, Chemicals, Plastics, Energy, Manufacturing, Carbon, Atmosphere, Engineering, Methanol, Certification, CE, Carbon footprint, CCS, CFC, CCU, ISCC, CO2, Chemical industry, Legislation

As part of its Fairway Methanol joint venture with Mitsui & Co., Ltd., Celanese Corporation (NYSE: CE), a global specialty materials and chemical company, today announced that the International Sustainability and Carbon Certification (ISCC) has certified its Low Carbon CCU (carbon capture and utilization) Methanol under the ISCC Carbon Footprint Certification (CFC) system.

Key Points: 
  • As part of its Fairway Methanol joint venture with Mitsui & Co., Ltd., Celanese Corporation (NYSE: CE), a global specialty materials and chemical company, today announced that the International Sustainability and Carbon Certification (ISCC) has certified its Low Carbon CCU (carbon capture and utilization) Methanol under the ISCC Carbon Footprint Certification (CFC) system.
  • The newly certified Low Carbon CCU Methanol demonstrates a greater than 70% reduction in carbon footprint relative to a global average benchmark for fossil-based methanol production, as included in EU legislation.
  • Celanese began operating one of the largest active CCU facilities in the world at its Clear Lake, Texas, site in January 2024.
  • By leveraging CCU, Celanese now offers customers low-carbon options across its Acetyl Chain and Engineered Materials products under the ECO-CC name.

Spectra Systems Commercializes the World's First Certified Circular Polymer Banknote Substrate

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Tuesday, April 2, 2024
Carbon, Certification, PLUS, Environment, London Stock Exchange, ISCC, Plastic, Security printing

PROVIDENCE, R.I., April 2, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Over the last several decades many central banks have utilized polymer substrates rather than paper to manufacture their banknotes, a shift that first began in Australia in 1988.  Since then, over 60 countries have utilized polypropylene as a substrate with roughly 30% of them using polymer across all denominations.

Key Points: 
  • Since then, over 60 countries have utilized polypropylene as a substrate with roughly 30% of them using polymer across all denominations.
  • In 2019, Spectra Systems Corporation (SPSY.L on London Stock Exchange) was the first to introduce the world's first high-speed machine-readable polymer substrate with covert signatures within the polymer to include the substrate in the security chain of polymer banknotes (Currency News, 17 (8), 2019, and Currency News, 20 (9), 2022).
  • Today Spectra Systems Corporation is again changing the landscape of polymer banknotes by announcing the world's first polymer banknote substrate that is part of a mass-balanced recycling supply chain certified by the International Sustainability and Carbon Certification (ISCC) PLUS process.
  • Our commercially available FUSION™ polymer banknote substrate ensures, in the case of Certified Circular polymer, that for every kilogram of polymer utilized in the substrate, an equal amount of polymer was recycled and repurposed as part of a sustainable supply chain.

Spectra Systems Commercializes the World's First Certified Circular Polymer Banknote Substrate

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Tuesday, April 2, 2024
Carbon, Certification, PLUS, Environment, London Stock Exchange, ISCC, Plastic, Multimedia, Security printing

PROVIDENCE, R.I., April 2, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Over the last several decades many central banks have utilized polymer substrates rather than paper to manufacture their banknotes, a shift that first began in Australia in 1988.  Since then, over 60 countries have utilized polypropylene as a substrate with roughly 30% of them using polymer across all denominations.

Key Points: 
  • Since then, over 60 countries have utilized polypropylene as a substrate with roughly 30% of them using polymer across all denominations.
  • In 2019, Spectra Systems Corporation (SPSY.L on London Stock Exchange) was the first to introduce the world's first high-speed machine-readable polymer substrate with covert signatures within the polymer to include the substrate in the security chain of polymer banknotes (Currency News, 17 (8), 2019, and Currency News, 20 (9), 2022).
  • Today Spectra Systems Corporation is again changing the landscape of polymer banknotes by announcing the world's first polymer banknote substrate that is part of a mass-balanced recycling supply chain certified by the International Sustainability and Carbon Certification (ISCC) PLUS process.
  • Our commercially available FUSION™ polymer banknote substrate ensures, in the case of Certified Circular polymer, that for every kilogram of polymer utilized in the substrate, an equal amount of polymer was recycled and repurposed as part of a sustainable supply chain.

Infinium's Project Pathfinder is World's First Fully Operational eFuels Facility

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Thursday, March 21, 2024
Carbon, Certification, Transport, Pathfinder, ISCC, CO2, Structural adjustment, Carbon dioxide

SACRAMENTO, Calif., March 21, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Electrofuels leader Infinium is now successfully operating the world's first commercial scale facility making drop-in ready electrofuels (eFuels) in Corpus Christi, Texas. The project, known as Project Pathfinder, is a continuously operating plant producing synthetic, ultra-low carbon eFuels that can be used in today's heavy transportation applications and chemical processes.

Key Points: 
  • The project, known as Project Pathfinder, is a continuously operating plant producing synthetic, ultra-low carbon eFuels that can be used in today's heavy transportation applications and chemical processes.
  • "Project Pathfinder would not have achieved this milestone without the incredibly talented team we brought together to pioneer commercial eFuels production, logistics and product delivery programs, none of which have existed before," said Robert Schuetzle, CEO at Infinium.
  • "As both a technology innovator and a project developer, we have end-to-end control of the eFuels production process.
  • In addition to being the world's only operational eFuels facility producing drop-in ready fuels that can be used in existing combustion engines and chemical processing, Project Pathfinder serves as Infinium's eFuels Center of Excellence, providing key learnings and identifying best practices for current and future projects.

Freepoint Eco-Systems Marks Global Recycling Day With Update on Ohio Facility

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Monday, March 18, 2024
ISCC, Textile, Environment, Plastic, Incineration, Food, Recycling

STAMFORD, Conn., March 18, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Freepoint Eco-Systems LLC ("Freepoint"), a leader in advanced recycling, today confirmed that its advanced recycling facility in Hebron, Ohio is on schedule to begin operations this year. The update was provided by Managing Director Jeff McMahon in an announcement marking Global Recycling Day. When construction is completed, the facility will be among the largest advanced recycling operations in the world, with the capacity to recycle about 90,000 tons of waste plastic per year. By using end-of-life waste plastic to create new plastic, oil and gas remain in the ground, greenhouse gas emissions are reduced and less plastic ends up in landfills.

Key Points: 
  • STAMFORD, Conn., March 18, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Freepoint Eco-Systems LLC ("Freepoint"), a leader in advanced recycling, today confirmed that its advanced recycling facility in Hebron, Ohio is on schedule to begin operations this year.
  • The update was provided by Managing Director Jeff McMahon in an announcement marking Global Recycling Day.
  • When construction is completed, the facility will be among the largest advanced recycling operations in the world, with the capacity to recycle about 90,000 tons of waste plastic per year.
  • Global Recycling Day was created in 2018 to help recognize, and celebrate, the importance recycling plays in preserving primary resources and securing the environment.