Arkema earns ISCC+ certification for acrylic monomers at all of its production sites
Last update on Jul 29, 2025
Arkema earns ISCC PLUS certification for acrylic monomers at all of its production sites worldwide, including Carling, France; Clear Lake, Texas (US); Taixing, China; and Bayport, Texas(1). These certifications are part of the company’s global Mass Balance(2) offer roadmap.
Strategic PCF reduction initiative
With a globally certified acrylic monomer network, Arkema can support easy, fast and cost-effective lower product carbon footprint projects from customers across the acrylic value chain – with end user solutions in coatings, adhesives, new mobility, building efficiency, living comfort, engineered polymers, leather, textiles, hygiene and water treatment.
“Arkema is among the first providers to offer local supply of bio-attributed acrylic monomers, using a Mass Balance(2) approach, at a truly global scale,” said Hervé Castres Saint Martin - group president for Acrylic Monomers Arkema.
“By focusing on certification for acrylic monomers at this scale, we are setting the stage for strategic product carbon footprint reduction initiatives through Arkema’s bio-attributed acrylic resins and additives and across the industry acrylics value chain. Our Mass Balance approach will help create economies of scale for more renewable and recycled raw materials."
These certifications will accompany the gradual introduction of a complete range of bio-attributed specialty resins and additives(3), including high-solids, water-based, UV-LED-EB resins and polyester powder resins for various industries.
(1) American Acryl LP, a 50-50 joint venture with Nippon Shokubai.
(2) The Mass Balance method provides manufacturers with a methodology to track certified materials throughout the value chain and attribute inputs to a production process to the outputs of that process through certified accounting. This separate accounting method verifies that the certified raw material has replaced an equivalent amount of fossil raw materials at the beginning of the supply chain and can be attributed to the product for sale, thus ensuring that inputs and outputs are balanced. [Source ISCC]
(3) Bio-attributed content indicates that the use of a bio-based raw material has been attributed using a mass balance methodology. Bio-attributed content is the percentage distribution based on the ISCC+ methodology calculation.
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