PODCAST: Expect new wave of low carbon products in 2-3 years – Azelis

BARCELONA (ICIS)–As chemical producers gain access to more renewable energy and portfolios evolve, distributors and downstream customers can look forward to a growing amount of low carbon, low fossil-content products.

• Distributors can help communicate sustainability data up and down industrial value chains
• Full life-cycle analysis required to truly measure a product’s environmental footprint
• Vital to have standard measurements for carbon footprint
• Chemical industry has a 25-year innovation cycle, more investment needed to accelerate this
• Wave of low carbon products expected in next 2-3 years
• Azelis is sticking to its environmental targets
• Customers drive demand for more low carbon products
• Renewable energy will cut fossil content of distributor product portfolios
• Smaller chemical companies drive low carbon innovation in Asia
• Reshoring will drive national or regional chemical value chains

In this Think Tank podcast, Will Beacham interviews Michael Heite, group sustainability director for Azelis, John Richardson from the ICIS market development team and Paul Hodges, chairman of New Normal Consulting.

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Editor’s note: This podcast is an opinion piece. The views expressed are those of the presenter and interviewees, and do not necessarily represent those of ICIS.

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