Sustainability

Since 2004 we’ve built up one of the world’s most advanced and reputable recycling infrastructures for reclaiming, sorting and transforming used and left-over aramid fibers. We can recover our highest-quality Twaron® fiber and turn it into new high-performance eco-advanced pulp.

Car dashboards, fiber-optic cables, tires, conveyor belts, mooring lines, slings. These are just some of the products that we’ve been able to turn into sustainability multipliers in their respective value chains. We collaborate closely with clients in many industries to develop solutions that not only meet technical requirements but also add environmental and financial value.

Although producing aramids like Twaron® is nowadays still an energy-intensive process. However, they act as sustainability multipliers further along multiple value chains. Light, strong and durable, Twaron® extends the lifespan of dozens of applications and minimizes resource and energy requirements in the use phase. For example, in 2020 we helped prevent more than 255,600 tons of CO₂ emissions using Twaron® in tires and conveyor belts. Learn how your company can add environmental and financial value with our Customer Benefit Model.

Our Energy Transition Plan is unlocking significant energy savings and by replacing energy sources with more sustainable ones we are on course to achieve our goals. We are also piloting renewable carbon raw materials into our production processes, driving the use of renewables across our industry. Together with our customers we aim to make our customers product more sustainable. And finally, to fully close the aramid chain we’re collaborating on the recovery of used aramids so they can be reintroduced as raw materials into our production process.