Sustainable Offerings

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Responsible Chemistry Meets Essential Needs

Innovation and Sustainable Solutions are Vital to How We Live Today and to Shaping the Future.

Our deep knowledge of chemistry and our technical capabilities allow us to work hand in hand with customers to develop solutions to their toughest technical problems and enable the creation of products that meet market demand for more sustainable solutions. Our solutions are part of a cleaner and brighter future for us all. We measure our products’ impacts and how they contribute to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs). We do this through EVOLVE 2030, our product sustainability assessment methodology. This methodology considers greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, landfill waste, and fluorinated organic compound emission intensities during manufacture as well as life cycle climate impact, social impact, and risks to human health and the environment.

Our 2021 Sustainable Offerings Highlights

Completed EVOLVE 2030 evaluation of product applications making up 56% of total 2021 revenue with 47.2% making a specific contribution to the UN SDGs
Received 2021 American Chemistry Council Sustainability Leadership Award for EVOLVE 2030 product sustainability
Joined Hydrogen Europe to help enable the transition to a global hydrogen economy
Launched Glyclean™ D, a proven, broad-spectrum disinfectant and cleaner, registered with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to deactivate the SARS-CoV-2 virus, as well as other viruses and bacteria

50% or more of our revenue will be from offerings that make a specific contribution to the UN SDGs - on track

EVOLVE 2030—Our Product Sustainability Assessment Methodology

We developed EVOLVE 2030 to evaluate our current portfolio and all potential new offerings in our development pipeline. The third-party validated methodology provides better knowledge and insights with which to adjust our business priorities and make informed decisions. The assessments help us maximize the UN SDG contributions of our product portfolio, investing in products and offerings with positive benefits and guiding choices to improve, or phase out, products with negative impacts. In other words, evolving to a more sustainable portfolio. We will continue evaluating our existing portfolio in 2022 while making upgrades to the methodology, which will be released in EVOLVE 2030 V2.0 and shared on our website.

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Opteon™ Sustainable, High-Performance Products with Low GWP

The performance today demands. The future tomorrow deserves.

Aspiring to Be the Most Sustainable TiO₂ Enterprise

Ti-Pure™ titanium dioxide is a different kind of TiO₂ producer.

Responsible Chemistry Ushers in the Hydrogen Economy

With Nafion™ ion exchange membranes making the most of renewable sources of energy, we can energize electric and fuel cell cars, trucks, and trains—all at the same time.

Medical Advancements

Our global healthcare system needs critical, high-performance fluoropolymers like Teflon™, Nafion™, and Krytox™ to face up to medical challenges.

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Case Studies

Remove2Reclaim, a Plastic Recycling Research Collaboration

In 2021, Chemours joined a three-year plastic recycling research project, Remove2Reclaim, in collaboration with industry, academic, and government experts to develop a more sustainable process for recovering titanium dioxide (TiO₂) and polymers from plastic end-use products. Our EMEA technicians are discovering ways to eliminate waste and reduce the amount of energy used in manufacturing, by enabling circularity across a much wider range of applications.

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Helping to Reduce the Auto Industry’s Footprint

Our sustainable offerings are key to helping transform the automotive industry into a more sustainable one. For example, gaskets and seals made from Viton™ fluoroelastomers help to reduce GHG emissions, while Teflon™ PTFE resins improve mileage by as much as 40% by ensuring proper working condition of oxygen sensors. Passengers are kept comfortable and alert thanks to low global warming Opteon™ YF. And finally, Krytox™ lubricants and Ti-Pure™ TiO₂ keep automotive parts running longer without needing to re-lubricate, often for the life of the automobile and protect automotive coatings for longer-lasting finishes, respectively.

Powering Heavy Duty Industries with Clean Hydrogen

Hydrogen is the most plentiful element in the universe and could be used as an energy source to power and decarbonize high-emitting industries, and yet, ironically, producing hydrogen today mostly requires the use of fossil fuels. Our Nafion™ membranes are making clean hydrogen scalable through water electrolysis, which splits water into hydrogen and oxygen by combining renewable energy with Nafion™ membranes. The resulting hydrogen can energize everything from huge industries to tiny cottages, from bullet trains to the fleet of the future.

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Deepening our Partnership with the NHL®

In 2021 through our NHL® partnership, the San Jose Sharks successfully installed Opteon™ refrigerant in new ice refrigeration systems at SAP Center at San Jose. We also renewed our partnership with the NHL® to provide low global warming potential (GWP) Opteon™ refrigerant across their network of community and professional ice rinks. In 2022, the partnership expanded into the classroom via support of Chemours' middle school partnership program to inspire the next generation of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) professionals, while fostering values core to both organizations.

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Increasing the Availability of Pure Water

As the population grows, so too does the demand for clean water. But making sure there is enough pure water to go around relies on disinfection. The easiest and most effective disinfectant—chlorine—can be made in a safe, energy-efficient way by using Nafion™ ion exchange membranes. This enables companies to produce enough chlorine to ensure clean water without relying on hazardous substances like asbestos or mercury.

Kathy O’Keefe

Product Sustainability Senior Director

We understand the importance of scientific data in substantiating our contributions to the UN SDGs. That’s why we built our methodology to identify and evaluate our products’ contributions to the 169 targets that support the 17 goals.