Toray Industries, Inc., announced that its Nagoya, Tokai, Okazaki, and Chiba plants acquired ISCC (for International Sustainability & Carbon Certification) PLUS certification in December last year.

ISCC PLUS uses the mass balance approach (see note) to manage and guarantee circular and/or bio-based feedstocks in the global supply value chain. Thus certified, the four plants can now allocate and use these feedstocks through mass balancing to manufacture and supply the following offerings.

ISCC PLUS-certified sites and products

Certifying entity: TÜV SÜD

The Okazaki Plant aims to start producing fiber products using bio-based feedstocks allocated via mass balance approach in March 2024. The Nagoya, Tokai, and Chiba plants look to begin manufacturing resins by employing recycled raw materials based on mass balancing by the fiscal year ending March 2026. Establishing supply structures at each site will empower Toray to meet customer demand using biomass-derived and recycled raw materials, thus helping to shrink carbon footprints.

One goal of the Toray Group Sustainability Vision for 2050 is to contribute to a world in which resources are sustainably managed. The company will keep catering to customer demand for products incorporating recycled resources to help materialize a circular economy and realize its corporate philosophy of contributing to social progress by delivering new value while attaining sustainable growth. The Nagoya, Tokai, Okazaki, and Chiba plants have declared their compliance with ISCC PLUS requirements in line with prevailing ISCC rules.

Note
A mass balance approach is one by which raw materials with certain characteristics (an example being biomass-derived) are mixed with other raw materials (such as petroleum-derived ones) in the processing and distribution process, from raw materials through finished products. Characteristics are assigned to part of a product in line with input proportions of raw materials with those characteristics.

Source: Toray