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Responsible Chemistry Meets Essential Needs

IMPROVING LIVES AROUND THE WORLD WHILE MINIMIZING OUR IMPACT ON THE PLANET.

Demonstrating progress against our goal requires us to measure our products’ impacts and how they contribute to the UN SDGs. We do this through EVOLVE 2030, our product sustainability assessment methodology. his methodology considers greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, landfill waste, and fluorinated organic chemical (FOC) emission intensities during manufacture as well as life cycle climate impact, social impact, and risks to human health and the environment.

Our 2022 Sustainable Offerings Highlights

  • Institutionalized a new Global Compliance Register, supporting our automated system of tracking emerging issues and further enhancing our proactive approach to regulatory or stewardship impacts as well as rigorous management of compliance plans and tracking
  • Introduced a new automated compliance tool, Product Declarations, for use by our customer-facing organization. These system-generated documents respond to customer inquiries in a transparent and consistent manner while also helping us improve response time and deliver a positive engagement experience
  • Collaborated with value chain partners to advance sustainability in their own businesses, sharing our EVOLVE 2030 sustainable offerings assessment methodology
  • Launched Ti-Pure™ TS-6300 calculator webtool, which helps customers quantify their environmental impact reduction when formulating with TiPure™ TS-6300
  • Successfully developed The STEM of Sustainability curriculum and product sustainability material and delivered it to eighth grade classes in two states, Delaware and New Jersey
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 use EVOLVE 2030 to evaluate our current offering portfolio and all potential new offerings in our development pipeline. Use of EVOLVE 2030 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 resilient and sustainable portfolio. 

Sustainability RESOURCES

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Opteon™ Sustainable, High-Performance Products with Low GWP
The performance today demands. The future tomorrow deserves.
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Aspiring to Be the Most Sustainable TiO₂ Enterprise
Ti-Pure™ titanium dioxide is a different kind of TiO₂ producer.
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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.

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Case Studies

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Chemistry that Connects Us

Chemours’ high-performance fluoropolymer resins and coatings make it possible to manufacture the advanced chips and printed circuit boards that 5G speeds require. The process of fabricating these chips is only viable under extremely high-purity conditions. Our chemically inert Teflon™ and Nafion™ fluoropolymers can meet these challenging conditions since they do not react with other chemicals. This ensures that increasingly advanced semiconductors are available to keep us connected with ever increasing speed and to keep our cars, appliances, and other devices running safely and efficiently.

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A Cleaner Path to Green Hydrogen

Nafion™ proton exchange membrane (PEM) technology is a critical component in water electrolyzers for hydrogen production, flow batteries for power storage, and fuel cells to generate electricity in transport and stationary applications—all of which are important pieces of the zero-carbon energy puzzle. While several technologies can currently be used to generate hydrogen, they differ greatly in their carbon footprint. Hydrogen produced by water electrolysis using renewable energy is classified as green hydrogen, which has significantly lower carbon emissions than the historical and predominant method of producing hydrogen by steam reforming of natural gas.

The Chemours Company (Chemours) is a global leader in titanium technologies, fluoroproducts and chemical solutions. (PRNewsfoto/The Chemours Company)

Unveiling the Center of Clean Hydrogen

In October 2022, we celebrated the announcement of the Clean Hydrogen Partnership (CHP) co-developed with the University of Delaware, and the unveiling of the Center for Clean Hydrogen. The CHP is an innovative public-private collaboration that brings the U.S. Department of Defense, the University of Delaware, Chemours, Plug, and the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) together to solve the challenges of producing clean hydrogen at low cost and converting the hydrogen to energy in an efficient way. Research results will be tested in the Center for Clean Hydrogen.

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Sharing Our Passion for Sustainability

We continued addressing our passion for education driven by United Nations Sustainable Development Goal Target 4.7—to ensure that all learners acquire the knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development by 2030. Our product sustainability professionals developed the curriculum and delivered a hands-on, interactive training series in Delaware and New Jersey schools, including modules on Sustainability and the UN SDGs, Life Cycle Assessment, Risk Assessment, and Making Real World Decisions: Sustainable Packaging.

Andy Liu

Andy Liu

Product Sustainability Strategy Leader

The true value of our team’s work is understanding how we can improve our product portfolio to maximize societal value while minimizing planetary burden.  It is so gratifying to partner with business leaders on product improvement projects and see them come to fruition.