Mass balance is a valuable tool that helps give our customers the confidence of knowing the sustainability content in their end-product as they transition to lower carbon footprint solutions. In production, renewable feedstocks are mixed with traditional fossil-fuel derived feedstocks. Mass balance accounting traces the amounts of renewable products in the comingled production more easily allowing for integration into large-scale production ecosystems. Celanese predominantly uses mass balance attribution with International Sustainability and Carbon Certification (ISCC) PLUS certification to provide third-party validation of sustainable content impact. We also use RedCert as a secondary certification vehicle as needed.

Santoprene ®TPV Contributes to Europe’s First Carbon Neutral Garden Hose

Fitt Force garden hoses use highly flexible Santoprene thermoplastic vulcanizates (TPV) instead of typical plastic polyvinyl chloride (PVC) to help make their hoses carbon neutral. Using our TPV enables a ~43% reduction in our carbon footprint impact compared to traditional hoses and further enables the use of parts with an estimated 50% less material. TPV contributes significantly to its light-weight design, resulting in further carbon footprint reductions. Additionally, Fitt Force carbon neutral hoses feature our TPV in distinct parts of the hose structure, making it free of PVC, lead, phthalates, and other harmful chemicals. We are currently extending our collaboration with Fitt Force to incorporate post-consumer waste into their garden hoses using our Santoprene TPV ECO-R offering.