Breakthrough Sustainability Step from Clariant
Clariant, a specialty chemicals company focusing on sustainability and innovation, announced today that it has achieved an agreement with the WEF and key chemical firms to construct a breakthrough development platform by 2023.
A Project Development Company will be created as a new pre-competitive organization that will assist partners in establishing joint ventures with the goal of sharing early-stage development risks and investing collaboratively in the development and deployment of low-carbon technology.
This agreement follows a two-year collaboration between WEF and the founding companies of the LCET initiative, including Air Liquide, BASF, Covestro, Dow, Mitsubishi Chemical Corp, Royal DSM, SABIC, SIBUR and Solvay. The joint venture represents the transition from a knowledge-sharing platform to an implementation tool aimed at accelerating greenhouse gas reductions in the chemical production chain.
“Chemicals are present in almost all products of daily life. They are essential to more than 95% of the goods produced worldwide. For this reason, most industries are customers of the chemical industry. Our role is to enable our customers to reduce their carbon footprint. In order to address these challenges, we need to share technologies and common approaches,” said Conrad Keijzer, Chief Executive Officer at Clariant.
“We are working together in the LCET initiative to jointly address mission-critical technology challenges that cannot be tackled by one company alone,” commented Martin Vollmer, Chief Technology Officer at Clariant.
“We want to actively contribute with our outstanding research and development expertise in the fields of biomass valorization focusing on agricultural waste streams for the production of advanced biofuels and bio-based chemicals, as well as in the field of innovative, high performance catalysts to support the transformation of our industry towards net-zero emissions.”
The LCET initiative aims not only to promote R&D alliances, but also to enable joint ventures or start-ups and reduce investment risks.
