Arkema Obtains Certification for Bio-Based Materials
Arkema’s corporate headquarters in Colombes, France, and its Marseille and Serquigny plants in France are now SuCCESS™ (Sustainable Castor Caring for Environmental and Social Standards) certified by independent certification bodies empaneled by the Sustainable Castor Association. Consequently, Arkema reports that it can offer advanced bio-circular polymers and oleochemical building blocks certified according to SuCCESS, the world’s first sustainable castor code.
After completing a baseline study of 1,000 smallholder farmers in Western India in 2016, Arkema and its partners BASF, Jayant Agro-Organics, and Solidaridad (a civil society organization) launched the Pragati project, which established a foundation for the creation of the Sustainable Castor Association and the SuCCESS code. Approximately 6,000 farmers have now been SuCCESS trained and certified by the Pragati implementation project so far, and some 13,300 hectares are now certified to be sustainably farmed.