On November 20, Japan’s Toray said its French subsidiary, Toray Carbon Fibers Europe,
S.A.) receives ISCC at its Lacq and Abidos production plants in southwestern France
PLUS certified. This certification enables Toray Carbon Fiber Europe to allocate and use biomass or recycled materials to produce and supply carbon fiber through a mass balance approach. As a result, the company now has the ability to reduce life cycle inventory (LCI) of its carbon fiber, prepreg and other products and help customers enhance product life cycle assessments
(LCA), while contributing to the construction of a circular economy.
ISCC PLUS is (International Sustainability and Carbon
Certification (ISCC) is a voluntary certification program that ensures that the raw materials used are derived from biomass or recycled materials. It also ensures complete traceability at all stages of the product manufacturing process. The mass balance approach tracks the quantity and sustainability characteristics of circular and bio-based materials used in the value chain and is based on verifiable records. ISCC
PLUS certification applies not only to biomaterials derived from agricultural and forestry materials, but also to various materials such as mixed plastic waste that could not be recycled through traditional mechanical processes in the past and required chemical processes for recycling and conversion.
It is reported that Toray Carbon Fiber Europe will start producing carbon fiber derived from biomass and recycled raw materials by the end of 2023. In addition, Toray’s Ehime factory in Japan plans to obtain ISCC by March 2024
PLUS certification and start fiber production before the end of 2024. In the United States, Toray’s U.S. subsidiary—Toray Composite Materials
America’s carbon fiber factory in Decatur, Alabama also plans to obtain the certification in 2024. With the certification of these three factories, Toray Group intends to produce carbon fiber using biomass or recycled raw materials at factories in Japan, the United States and Europe, ensuring stable supply to global customers.
Toray has already received requests from customers who are also committed to carbon neutrality, and starting from the end of 2023, Toray will provide this carbon fiber for industrial applications such as automobiles and handheld devices, where the demand for materials for making sustainable products is particularly high. Later, other applications such as aviation and sports will also be targeted.
According to Toray, this measure is consistent with Toray Group’s carbon fiber composite business roadmap to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. According to the mid-term management plan AP-G
Project 2025, Toray is actively contributing to a more sustainable economy by quantifying LCA improvements in customers’ products, reducing LCI of carbon fiber, prepreg and other products, and using and recycling bio-based materials as part of its new materials ecosystem. Make a contribution.
Toray’s goal is to establish a new material ecosystem that utilizes natural raw materials and returns them to nature in an environmentally friendly manner. For carbon fiber, biomass and recycled raw materials will be used to manufacture carbon fiber and establish an ecosystem. The fibers will be made into composite materials, which ultimately become the final product. At the end of the product’s life cycle, continuous carbon fibers will be reused as discontinuous fibers in other products. The final stage of the carbon fiber life cycle is recycling for water treatment or soil improvement.
In addition to Toray, carbon fiber manufacturers such as Teijin and Asahi Kasei are also actively promoting the use of bio-based materials to accelerate the sustainable development of the carbon fiber industry. In June, Japan’s Teijin Corporation announced that Tenax™ carbon fiber and polyacrylonitrile (polymer) produced at its Mishima plant in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan
a crylonitrile (PAN) precursor fiber has obtained ISCC, the international sustainability and carbon certification system
PLUS certification, this is the first time in the world that carbon fiber and PAN precursor fiber have obtained this certification at the same time. PAN precursor fibers are made from sustainable acrylonitrile (a
crylonitrile, AN), which uses waste and residues from bio-based derivatives or recycled raw materials and is produced using a mass balance method. This method allows for verifiable tracking of materials through complex value chains. Since sustainable AN has the same physical properties as petroleum-derived AN, PAN and Tenax™ carbon fibers based on this sustainable material have the same physical properties as equivalent fossil-based products. physical properties. This similarity enables customers to easily replace Tenax™ carbon fiber with more sustainable alternatives, helping to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions throughout the product life cycle. The island plant uses a mass balance approach for commercial production of PAN and Tenax™ carbon fibers.
In October 2021, Asahi Kasei, a diversified Japanese multinational company
Corp. (Asahi Kasei Corporation) announced its wholly-owned subsidiary Tongsuh Petrochemical Corp. located in Seoul, South Korea.
Ltd., TSPC) has received the widely recognized International Sustainability and Carbon Certification (ISCC) for making acrylonitrile (AN) sustainable. The company plans to start producing AN materials from bio-based propylene in February 2022. To achieve carbon neutrality by 2050, measures to reduce CO2 emissions in the fossil fuel derivatives product chain are gaining momentum, and more and more customers are looking to use products manufactured with low CO2 emissions to contribute to the reduction of greenhouse gases (GHG). In this case, Asahi Kasei Corporation and TSPC tried to reduce CO2 emissions throughout the supply chain, and in October 2021 TSPC became the first company in Asia to obtain ISCC
PLUS certified manufacturer. This certification system enables TSPC to produce and sell AN using biomass feedstock distributed through mass balance methods.
In addition to acrylonitrile raw materials used for carbon fiber production, bio-based resins produced by resin manufacturers including Japan’s Toray and Japan’s Teijin have also passed ISCC certification. In July this year, Toray Advanced, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Japan’s Toray, Materials Korea Co., Ltd. (Toray
Advanced Materials Korea Inc.’s polyphenylene sulfide (PPS) resin produced at its Gunsan plant in Gunsan received the ISCC, an international sustainability and carbon certification system
PLUS certified. In January this year, Teijin announced that its bio-based bisphenol A (BPA) polycarbonate (PC) resin product had obtained ISCC
PLUS sustainable product certification.
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