Industrial Biorenewables

A Practical Viewpoint

Pablo Domínguez de María

• Publisher: Wiley
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN: 9781118843727
• eBook ISBN: 9781118844229
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Subtopic: Renewable Power Resources
• Index: Technology & Engineering

INDUSTRIAL BIORENEWABLES A Practical Viewpoint

This unique text provides an in-depth industrial view in its discussion of industrial biorenewables; industries report on real cases of biorenewables, dealing with economics, the motivation of implementing industrial biorenewable-based processes, and suggestions for further improvement and research.

• Includes industrial perspectives by scientists working on biorenewable technology in industry, with a clear commercial focus
• Spans basic research to commercialization of processes and everything in between
• Provides key information for academic groups working in the area by covering the way industrial scientists tackle problems
• Showcases patented technologies across diverse industries, shares the motivation of implementing industrial biorenewable-based processes, and suggests options for further improvement and research
• Serves as a guide for industries and academic groups, providing crucial information for the setup of future biobased industrial concepts

Industrial Biorenewables provides a state-of-the-art perspective, offering a unique viewpoint from which a range of industries report on real cases of biorenewables, demonstrate their technologies, share the motivation of implementing a certain industrial biorenewable-based processes, and suggest options for further improvement and research. With an in-depth industrial viewpoint, the book serves as a key guide for industries and academic groups, providing crucial information for the setup of future biobased industrial concepts.

Chapter 1
AkzoNobel: Biobased Raw Materials

Alistair Reid, Martijn van Loon, Sara Tollin, and Peter Nieuwenhuizen

AkzoNobel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

1. 1.1 AkzoNobel's Biobased Raw Materials Strategy in Context
2. 1.2 AkzoNobel in the Value Chain
3. 1.3 Drivers Behind Development of the Biobased Raw Material Strategy
   1. 1.3.1 Background
   2. 1.3.2 Existing Use of Biobased Raw Materials
   3. 1.3.3 Emerging Products from Biobased Raw Materials
   4. 1.3.4 Triggers to Developing an AKZONOBEL Biobased Strategy
   5. 1.3.5 Developing the Biobased Chemicals Strategy
4. 1.4 Conclusions of the Biobased Chemicals Strategy
5. 1.5 Implementing the Strategy: Striking Partnerships
6. 1.6 Experience to Date
7. 1.7 Measuring, Reporting, and Ensuring Sustainable Sourcing of Biomass
8. 1.8 Book and Claim
9. 1.9 Sustainability in the Value Chain: LCA

1.1 AkzoNobel's Biobased Raw Materials Strategy in Context

This chapter sets out AKZONOBEL as a company, its position in the value chain, and sustainability approach and describes how the company has responded to recent developments in biobased materials. AKZONOBEL has developed and implemented a white biotechnology strategy to help respond to the sustainability challenges of its customers and to contribute toward its corporate sustainability goals. Guided by this strategy the company is now partnering with innovators and leading companies in the rapidly developing field of industrial biotechnology and biobased raw materials to bring economic competitive developments delivering meaningful sustainability improvements to our markets.

AKZONOBEL is a committed and recognized leader in chemical industry sustainability and our proactive effort has been recognized through our presence in the top three of the Materials Industry group of Dow Jones sustainability index (DJSI) for each of the last 5 years. We have even been Materials Industry group leader for each of the last three years. The DJSI benchmarks the sustainability performance of leading companies based on environmental, social, and economic performance, including forward-looking indicators, and is regarded as the world's foremost sustainability index. It assesses various criteria, including supply chain management, operational eco-efficiency, product stewardship, human capital development, and occupational health and safety. AKZONOBEL is building on the basis of active health, safety, and environment (HSE) programs internally and through supplier support visits (SSV) and works with our key suppliers to improve HSE performance though our value chain. AKZONOBEL also takes a leading position in cross-sectoral initiatives such as the World Business Council for Sustainable Development and Together for Sustainability.

We are further building on this base with eco-premium solutions (EPS) and our Carbon Strategy. As part of our sustainability effort, AKZONOBEL is helping its customers to address their sustainability challenges by offering products that enable them to reduce their environmental footprint at competitive price points. To add impetus to this effort, we developed the concept of EPS in 2007 to translate the eco-innovation challenge into an operational target for our company. This eco-innovation challenge was defined by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as the introduction of any new or significantly improved product – which can be either goods or services – process, organizational change, or marketing solution that reduces the use of natural resources (including materials, energy, water, and land) and decreases the release of harmful substances across the whole life cycle.

EPS are measured using a quantitative analysis or a qualitative assessment of performance in seven categories: toxicity, energy efficiency, use of natural resources/raw materials, emissions and waste, land use, and risks (e.g., accidents) and health and well-being (added in 2013) against the most commonly available equivalent commercial products or industrial processes (mainstream solutions) from a life cycle (value chain) perspective. The EPS must be significantly better with respect to at least one criterion and have no significant adverse effects with respect to any of the other criteria. The assessment is carried out by an experienced cross-functional group, including experts in R&D, marketing and sales, purchasing, manufacturing, and eco-efficiency. Since 2008, the EPS assessment has been audited as part of a broader sustainability audit.

Our 2020 target is to achieve 20% of revenue from products and services that provide customers and consumers in our downstream value chain with a significant sustainability advantage. This is in addition to our target of increasing revenue share from EPS (with benefits at any stage of the value chain) to 30% by 2015. Both are challenging goals because the assessments are made against equivalent mainstream or standard commercial products and as such are an upward moving target, as both we and our competitors introduce new and more sustainable products into the market.

Addressing concerns about contribution to and the impact of climate change prompted AKZONOBEL to establish a Carbon Policy in 2009. In this we recognize the need to move beyond controlling emissions from our own operations toward – throughout our product chain – identifying and addressing both the opportunities for more sustainable sources of materials and the strategic risks arising from dependence on fossil fuels and fossil-based raw materials. In line with our commitment to develop eco-efficient solutions for customers, the company acknowledges that managing our carbon footprint through innovative products, technology, and energy management constitutes both a business opportunity and a social imperative. Our target is to reduce our cradle-to-grave carbon footprint by 25–30% per ton of sales between 2012 and 2020. The cradle-to-grave footprint adds the impact from our customer applications and end of life of our products to the cradle-to-gate measure we have used since 2009. Since 2007, we publicly disclose our Policy, Management and Performance on Energy Efficiency and Carbon Footprint by our annual reporting to the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP).

To support these sustainability efforts, AKZONOBEL set out a biobased strategy that identified opportunities in biobased materials where these might be delivered economically and maximize the environmental impact reduction. This strategy aims to forge supply chain relationships that connect these innovations and opportunities to our markets and application areas.

We have meanwhile struck a number of partnerships as a result of this strategy and are working through our value chains to bring these to market. Developing and implementing this strategy have required considerable thought on selection of the target molecules, engagement with current and emerging suppliers in new ways, and significant attention on how to address sustainable sourcing and integrating these materials into existing value chains.

1.2 AkzoNobel in the Value Chain

AKZONOBEL is a leading global paints and coatings company and a major producer of specialty chemicals that holds leadership positions in many markets. In 2013 the company employed approximately 50,000 people and reported revenue of €14.6B with high-growth markets in Latin America and Asia Pacific representing 44% of this revenue.

The company is divided into three business areas, each of which represents approximately one third of our revenue:

• Performance coatings. Performance coatings are used predominantly for protection, mainly to industrial consumers having hundreds of uses across a wide range of industries and sectors including automotive, consumer electronics, aviation, shipping and leisure craft, sport equipment, construction, furniture, and food and beverage.
• Decorative paints. Our decorative paints business is the world's leading decorative architectural paints company supplying a full range of interior and exterior decoration and protection products for both the professional and the do-it-yourself markets. The product range includes paints, lacquers, and varnishes as well as products for surface preparation (predeco products). We also supply building adhesives and floor leveling compounds for tile, floor, and parquet layers.
• Specialty chemicals. AKZONOBEL is a major supplier of specialty chemicals with leading positions in selected market segments. Our products are used in a wide variety of everyday products such as ice cream, soups, disinfectants, plastics, soaps, detergents, cosmetics, paper, and asphalt.

AKZONOBEL by and large is not vertically integrated back to the primary extraction of resources but occupies a position in the value chain as a formulator and convertor of chemicals. While AKZONOBEL as the corporation is not widely known, many of our brands are household names, trusted by customers to brighten, protect, and preserve their homes, buildings, offices, and factories. These brands include Sikkens, Dulux, Jozo, International Paints, and Interpon, among others.

1.3 Drivers Behind Development of the Biobased Raw Material Strategy

1.3.1 Background

AKZONOBEL has, for some years, been actively monitoring ...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• List of Contributors
• Preface
• Chapter 1: AkzoNobel: Biobased Raw Materials
• Chapter 2: Arizona Chemical: Refining and Upgrading of Bio-Based and Renewable Feedstocks
• Chapter 3: Arkema: Castor Reactive Seed Crushing Process to Promote Castor Cultivation
• Chapter 4: Avantium Chemicals: The High Potential for the levulinic product tree
• Chapter 5: C5LT: Biorenewables at C5 Ligno Technologies AB
• Chapter 6: Cepsa: Towards The Integration of Vegetable Oils and Lignocellulosic Biomass into Conventional Petroleum Refinery Processing Units
• Chapter 7: DuPont: Biorenewables at E.I. DU Pont DE Nemours & Co
• Chapter 8: Evonik: Bioeconomy and Biobased Products
• Chapter 9: Market Structure and Growth Rates of Industrial Biorenewables
• Chapter 10: Göteborg Energi: Vehicle Fuel From Organic Waste
• Chapter 11: Greasoline: Biofuels From Non-food Materials and Residues
• Chapter 12: Green Applied Solutions: Customized Waste Valorization Solutions for a Sustainable Future
• Chapter 13: Grove Advanced Chemicals: Flox® Coagulants – Environmentally Friendly Water and Wastewater Treatment Using Biodegradable Polymers From Renewable Forests
• Chapter 14: Heliae Development, LLC: An Industrial Approach to Mixotrophy in Microalgae
• Chapter 15: InFiQuS: Making the Best of Leftovers
• Chapter 16: Biorenewables at Mango Materials
• Chapter 17: Novamont: Perspectives on Industrial Biorenewables and Public-Private Needs
• Chapter 18: Novozymes: How Novozymes Thinks About Biomass
• Chapter 19: Organoclick: Applied Eco-Friendly and Metal-Free Catalysis for Wood and Fiber Modifications
• Chapter 20: Petrobras: The Concept of Integrated Biorefineries Applied to the Oleochemistry Industry: Rational Utilization of Products and Residues via Catalytic Routes
• Chapter 21: Phytonix: Cyanobacteria for Biobased Production Using CO2
• Chapter 22: Phytowelt Green Technologies: Fermentation Processes and Plant Breeding as Modules for Enhanced Biorefinery Systems
• Chapter 23: Biorenewables at Shell: Biofuels
• Index
• End User License Agreement