Our transition to a low-carbon economy and efforts to reduce CO₂ emissions are implemented in line with the Environmental Pillar of our World-Class Armacell Mindset (WAM) programme. We collect key performance indicators on energy use, CO₂ emissions, water consumption and waste management. Armacell has reported on Scope 1 and Scope 2 CO₂ emissions for years and started assessing Scope 3 emissions in 2021. Scope 1 refers to the direct emissions from our own manufacturing operations. Scope 2 refers to indirect emissions from the generation of purchased energy. The applied fuel types are converted into CO₂ equivalents through the conversion factors for global warming potential (GWP) published by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Assessing Scope 3 emissions helps us better understand how our activities further impact our value chain. We provide more details on our work to support a lower carbon economy in our annual sustainability report

All our products are assessed for health, safety, environmental and social impact considerations. Where applicable, both the raw materials used and the products themselves are regularly analysed and evaluated to ensure that there are no declarable components above the respective threshold values. Armacell products use verifiably registered and approved substances and mixtures and fully comply with the European Union’s REACH regulation to protect human health and the environment. Most of Armacell’s insulation products in the USA, e.g. ArmaFlex® or ArmaLight^TM Tubolit, are GREENGUARD Gold Certified. This standard is designed to define low-emitting materials suitable for environments where people, and in particular children and sensitive adults, spend extended periods of time, e.g. in schools or healthcare facilities. GREENGUARD certified products are screened for more than 10,000 volatile organic compounds.

Armacell essentially has two levers that enable and support our path to a circular economy. On the one hand, we are increasing the recycling volume of our production-related waste and, at the same time, further expanding the use of recycled PET (rPET) for our new products. Through initiatives such as recovering wastewater or implementing a pallet return policy for customers, we avoid generating waste at our own production sites, reduce negative waste impacts, and support the circular economy in our upstream value chain. Thanks to solutions that use recycled PET flakes, our manufacturing process generates 37% fewer CO2 emissions than other comparable materials. To date, Armacell’s rPET facilities have re-used more than 2.5 billion PET bottles. As another way of contributing to higher recycling rates beyond our own output, we are sharing our patented process technology. By granting licenses to other PET foam producers in the composite industry we are helping to drive and accelerate adoption rates in their manufacturing processes. Opening our unique technology to others ramps up Armacell’s contribution to a greener tomorrow.