PARIS, FRANCE: AFYREN, a greentech company that offers producers bio-based, low-carbon merchandise made utilizing technology based on pure micro-organisms, signed a brand new multi-year contract to present biobased pure acid to a U.S. maker of artificial lubricants.
The buyer is an active producer of Polyol Esters, that are used within the formulation of artificial lubricants. Carboxylic acids are a main component of Polyol Esters, and AFYREN’s acids have a carbon footprint that’s 5 times decrease than these made from petroleum derivatives.1
As the results of local weather change become alarmingly apparent, companies are stressed from consumers and regulators to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.
AFYREN’s newest buyer said that specializing in Scope 1 and 2 emissions (those for which it’s directly accountable and has management over) wouldn’t be sufficient to attain its local weather neutrality goals. By sourcing biobased carboxylic acid through AFYREN, the corporate will enhance its Scope three emissions, that are additionally known as worth chain emissions. Scope three emissions often represent the bulk of an organization’s total greenhouse gas emissions, in accordance to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
AFYREN’s biobased acids are used as a drop-in replacement for the conventional petro-based acids. This permits its customers to make use of the identical manufacturing process, sustaining product performance, whereas reducing the carbon footprint of its products.
All AFYREN customers profit from a dependable present chain based on sustainable, renewable resources that don’t compete with the human meals chain. AFYREN’s distinctive worth proposition permits its clients to place themselves as sustainable gamers of their sectors, much less depending on fossil-based ingredients — a standing that may bring with it clear financial advantages.
AFYREN has contracts signed for its merchandise in all six of its precedence markets: food, feed, flavors & fragrances, lubricants, life sciences and materials sciences. AFYREN is proud to contribute to the transition towards sustainable ingredients in all of these industries.
AFYREN has now pre-sold greater than 75% of its AFYREN NEOXY factory’s focused manufacturing quantity of pure acids, underscoring the curiosity and confidence producers of all kinds have in AFYREN’s industrial development. This settlement with an American participant confirms the very strong global demand for bio-based options and confirms the validity of AFYREN’s technique to develop internationally so as to higher serve its customers of their markets.