100 Percent Sustainable. 100 Percent Our Way!

While manufacturers of many chemicals face the challenge of managing what happens to their products especially at the end of their life cycles, the hydrogen peroxide we produce is an entirely natural product. It not only occurs naturally in our bodies, for example, but also in honey or roasted coffee. Hydrogen peroxide degrades into water and oxygen. When our second product group, peracetic acid, is broken down, what also remains at the end is bio-based acetic acid.

We at Evonik Active Oxygens are also one step ahead of many other companies on the path to sustainability in the manufacturing process. We no longer have to search for unfamiliar solutions to climate-neutral production issues.

We know how to get there. Extensive life cycle analyses have enabled us to document all sources of emissions, and we know what we need to change – and how we want to make that happen.

The three major production levers are electricity, hydrogen and steam. Most of the electricity we use is already generated from renewable sources. We want to increase the percentage of renewable electricity used at our sites worldwide to over 90 percent. In the long term, we will only use electricity from renewable sources. We will also gradually replace hydrogen, an essential primary material used in the production of hydrogen peroxide and therefore indirectly of peracetic acid, with green hydrogen. The steam required for production will be generated in future using renewable energy. At the same time, we are reducing consumption by investing in further efficiency improvements, for example heat recovery.