ACA Sustainability Report 2022 - Report - Page 57
Improving the Community and the Climate
MEMBER STORY
Our Science-based Targets Drive Innovation
across the Value Chain
Sustainability has been an important
part of the way we do business for
decades. To help us maintain and
build on our strong heritage, we’re
always innovating and delivering factbased results. Our approach to doing
sustainable business is therefore an
integral part of our commitment to
People. Planet. Paint. – our promise
that we’ll keep innovating to address
key global issues – and goes beyond
our own operations. That’s why we
have set carbon reduction targets of
50% by 2030 (baseline 2018) for our
whole value chain, validated by the
Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi)
in 2021. Collaborating with our partners
across the value chain and increasing
our portfolio of sustainable solutions
are key levers to achieving our sciencebased carbon reduction targets.
To measure our progress on
sustainable solutions, we co-developed
the Sustainable Product Portfolio
Assessment with the World Business
Council for Sustainable Development
(WBCSD). It’s a fact-based approach
that measures the sustainability
characteristics of our product portfolio
and groups it into three categories:
sustainable solutions, performers, and
transitioners. Sustainable solutions
currently make up approximately
40% of our total portfolio and we aim
to grow this even further to more
than 50% by 2030. Our reporting on
sustainable solutions is verified by
an external auditor, ensuring our
framework is transparent
and comprehensive.
Green buildings are an example of
how our products create sustainable
communities. The historic Hudson
Yards development in New York City
is the largest U.S. private real estate
development. The ongoing project
completed two towers at 10 and 30
Hudson Yards, with the impressive
glass and steel structure of 30 Hudson
Yards features the company’s highperformance architectural powder
coatings, while 10 Hudson Yards uses
our industrial coatings. Most of the
aluminium on the larger tower is coated
with the company’s Interpon D3000
Fluromax metallic powder coating,
including the highly prominent first
five stories. The remaining louvers
and some of the ornamental metals
are coated with our TRINAR liquid
coating. The shorter tower at 10
Hudson Yards features our TRINAR
coatings on all visible aluminium –
both exterior and interior. Our powder
and liquid coating products make this
Manhattan neighborhood development
a LEED-certified sustainable
community (Leadership in Energy and
Environmental Design – a global green
building certification program) and help
the buildings last longer.
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We’ve also launched our Ceram-A-Star
CS 1050 Select offering for LEEDcertified buildings. This is our latest
development using COOL CHEMISTRY
coatings that are applied on metal
roofing. The result is a sustainable
building material that lowers air
conditioning costs, reduces peak
energy demand, and helps to mitigate
urban heat island effects. When applied
on roofs and walls in a hot climate,
COOL CHEMISTRY coatings reduce air
conditioning costs by up to 15%.
In our food packaging coatings, we
have developed new waterborne BPANI
coatings that have a lower embodied
carbon footprint and help our
customers to optimize their productivity
– thus helping them to reduce the
carbon footprint in the value chain. One
of these sustainable solutions is our
Aqualure™G150 that has allowed our
customers to smoothly transition from
epoxy-based lacquers while meeting
performance requirements.
We continue to innovate and develop
more sustainable solutions that reduce
our carbon emissions in our value chain
and help achieve our SBTi approved
carbon reduction targets, while at the
same time deliver on the high-quality
standards that our customers expect
from us.
To learn more, visit https://www.
akzonobel.com/sustainability.