Significantly expanding the reach of its circular economy portfolio, Covestro’s production site in Baytown, Texas has received the ISCC (International Sustainability and Carbon Certification) PLUS certification. The Baytown site is the company's largest operating facility in North and South America and its third-largest production site worldwide. All of Covestro's major sites are now certified by the internationally recognized ISCC PLUS standard. Covestro is the first manufacturer of polyurethane and polycarbonate raw materials to receive this certification in the United States.
"Thanks to this new milestone, Covestro will soon be able to serve even more customers around the world with an easily accessible, more sustainable product portfolio," said Sucheta Govil, chief commercial officer of Covestro. "Customers in North America can now reduce their carbon footprint and Scope 3 emissions with drop-in, mass-balanced materials derived from recycled and bio-attributed products."