MOSCOW (MRC) -- Solvay says it aims to reduce emissions further from its own production plants and related to the energy it purchases, and include in its 2030 sustainability targets emissions in the value chains connected to Solvay’s activities, said Chemweek.
These emissions are principally embedded in goods and services purchased and emissions during the processing, use, and end of life of products sold, the company says.
Solvay adopted earlier this year, with its Solvay One Planet program, a 2030 target to reduce its emissions twice as fast as under its previous goal. “Now we will take this commitment a step further by joining with customers, suppliers, and all other companies that are setting emissions-reduction targets in line with what climate science says is necessary. We have to reinvent progress and act decisively in this decade to minimize the climate risk,” says Ilham Kadri, CEO of Solvay.
The company’s new sustainability targets are in line with the Science Based Targets initiative, a collaboration between CDP, formerly the Carbon Disclosure Project; the United Nations Global Compact; World Resources Institute; and the World Wide Fund for Nature, it says.
As MRC reported earlier, in August, 2020, through the acquisition of the Solvay polyamide (PA) business, BASF enhanced its R&D capabilities in Asia Pacific with new technologies, technical expertise, and upgraded material and part testing services. BASF is planning to integrate the R&D centers from Solvay into its R&D existing facilities in Shanghai, China, and Seoul, Korea. The enhanced capabilities will boost BASF’s position as a solution provider to develop advanced material solutions for key industries.
We remind that BASF-YPC, a 50-50 joint venture of BASF and Sinopec, undertook a planned shutdown at its naphtha cracker on 30 April 2020. The company initially planned to start turnaround at the cracker on April 5, 2020. The plant remained under maintenance unitl 18 June, 2020. Located in Jiangsu, China, the cracker has an ethylene capacity of 750,000 mt/year and propylene capacity of 400,000 mt/year.
Ethylene and propylene are feedstocks for producing polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP).
According to MRC's DataScope report, PE imports to Russia dropped in January-June 2020 by 7% year on year to 328,000 tonnes. High density polyethylene (HDPE) accounted for the main decrease in imports. At the same time, PP imports into Russia rose in the first six months of 2020 by 21% year on year to 105,300 tonnes. Propylene homopolymer (homopolymer PP) accounted for the main increase in imports.