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Specialty materials and chemical company Celanese will deploy carbon capture and utilisation (CCU) technologies in its binders for the pulp and paper industry.
The US-based company has partnered with Finnish airlaid materials firm SharpCell Oy on the initiative. SharpCell produces lower-carbon nonwoven materials for everyday products using inputs made with carbon dioxide (CO2) captured from industrial processes through CCU technology.
Pekka Pollari, CEO of SharpCell, said integrating Celanese’s CCU-based binders into its airlaid production demonstrates a commitment to more sustainable production solutions.
Celanese already uses CCU-based raw materials at its Clear Lake, Texas, facility to produce vinyl acetate ethylene (VAE) binders, an integral component in binder-bonded airlaid nonwovens.
CCU and fossil-fuel-based feedstocks are mixed but tracked separately using mass-balance accounting.
The technology is also based on mass-balance accounting and is expected to utilise more than 400 metric tonnes of captured CO2 annually, which is roughly equivalent to emissions from burning 45,000 gallons of gasoline, according to the US EPA.
Kevin Norfleet, Senior Director of Global Sustainability at Celanese, said the company is excited to add airlaid nonwovens to the list of products benefiting from CCU.
