Sustainability Credentials
Kraton holds a variety of globally recognized certifications, each with differing qualifications and benchmarks. These certifications serve as a baseline for our own sustainability goals and provide third-party confirmation of our efforts to contribute to a better tomorrow.
Cradle-to-gate Life Cycle Assessments
Kraton adopts a product life cycle approach that rethinks solutions for circularity. By prioritizing sustainability at every stage of the life cycle, we help customers reduce environmental impact and enhance the economic and social value of their products and processes. This integrated strategy supports lower product carbon footprints, delivers tangible environmental benefits, and advances broader sustainability goals by reducing emissions and health and safety risks throughout the value chain.
ISCC PLUS Certification
ISCC PLUS is a globally recognized certification system that ensures transparent mass balance tracking and traceability of sustainable raw materials across the supply chain. This ensures the transparent and traceable use of bio-based, biocircular, circular, and renewable feedstocks throughout our global supply chain. This supports our customers in certifying their own products and advancing the circular economy.
Kraton is accelerating the shift from fossil-based inputs to certified renewable and recycled raw materials, utilizing the mass balance approach, a method that enables us to attribute sustainable content to end products without the need for separate production lines.
Enabling Sustainability and Circularity
ISCC PLUS enables Kraton and our customers to:
Our ISCC PLUS Certified Portfolio:
Bio-Circular Feedstock: Certified at our Sandarne, Oulu, Savannah, and Panama City sites, enabling customers to create and certify their own sustainable products.
Sustainable AMS & AMS Phenolics Resins: Certified alternatives to fossil-based specialty chemicals for adhesives and tire applications.
CirKular+™ ReNew Series: Produced at our ISCC PLUS-certified sites in France and the U.S., offering up to 100% renewable SBCs.
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Plant |
Type |
Certification |
|---|---|---|
|
Niort |
Chemicals |
ISCC PLUS |
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Belpre |
Polymers |
ISCC PLUS |
|
Savannah |
Chemicals |
ISCC EU Distillates |
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Sandarne |
Chemicals |
ISCC EU Distillates |
|
Oulu |
Chemicals |
ISCC EU Distillates |
|
Berre |
Polymers |
ISCC PLUS |
|
Mailiao |
Polymers |
ISCC PLUS (planned 2026) |
BioPreferred Certification
Kraton offers more than 160 USDA BioPreferred® Certified Products, and our biobased content is measured using the widely used American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) D6866 standard. This standard offers transparency and credibility for our biobased content claims and scientific evidence of the biogenic carbon content in our products.
EcoVadis
EcoVadis is a leading platform that evaluates companies worldwide on their environmental, social, and ethical practices, enabling transparent benchmarking and driving progress across global industries.
Kraton has earned the prestigious EcoVadis Platinum rating for four consecutive years, a distinction that places us in the top 1% of over 130,000 companies assessed globally. This recognition reflects the strength and maturity of our sustainability performance and management systems.
