{"id":939,"date":"2025-03-26T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.elastomer.kuraray.com\/in\/?p=939"},"modified":"2025-03-25T18:27:57","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T15:27:57","slug":"kuraray-acquires-iscc-plus-certification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elastomer.kuraray.com\/in\/news\/kuraray-acquires-iscc-plus-certification\/","title":{"rendered":"Kuraray Acquires ISCC PLUS Certification"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Kuraray Acquires ISCC PLUS Certification<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group holder_author has-light-green-cyan-background-color has-background\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\"><div class=\"wp-block-post-author\"><div class=\"wp-block-post-author__content\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-author__byline\">Author<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-post-author__name\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elastomer.kuraray.com\/in\/author\/robin-conrad\/\" target=\"_self\">Robin Conrad<\/a><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2025-03-26T05:00:00+03:00\">26 March 2025<\/time><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Thermoplastic elastomers SEPTON\u2122 and HYBRAR\u2122 as well as Liquid Rubber produced at Kashima Plant<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kuraray Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; President: Hitoshi Kawahara) hereby announces that thermoplastic elastomers SEPTON\u2122 and HYBRAR\u2122 as well as Liquid Rubber produced at the Company\u2019s Kashima Plant (Kamisu City, Ibaraki Prefecture), were certified under ISCC PLUS*\u00b9, an internationally recognized certification program for sustainable products.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ISCC PLUS ensures that certified items, such as biomass and recycled raw materials, are properly managed via the use of the mass-balance approach*\u00b2 throughout their supply chains, including manufacturing process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kuraray is implementing its medium-term management plan \u201cPASSION 2026\u201d as a five-year plan leading up to the centennial of its founding in 2026. The Company will continue to expand its lineup of products that contribute to the natural and living environments, with the aim of realizing the long-term \u201cKuraray Vision 2026,\u201d namely, being a \u201cSpecialty Chemical Company growing sustainably by incorporating new foundational platforms into its own technologies and contributing to customers, society, and the planet.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">*1 ISCC PLUS:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>International Sustainability and Carbon Certification (ISCC) is an internationally recognized certification program for sustainability and carbon emissions. ISCC PLUS is especially designed to ensure that certified items, which are bio-based or recycled raw materials and products marketed in the EU and elsewhere in the world, are properly managed throughout their supply chains in terms of sustainability and CO\u2082 emissions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">*2 Mass-balance approach:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>A method for assessing the sustainability of products made using multiple types of raw materials, including biomass and recycled raw materials as well as fossil-based raw materials. In this method, characteristics of sustainable raw materials (e.g., biomass and recycled raw materials) included in finished products are taken into account in a manner that reflects the proportional volume of such raw materials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We pledge our commitment to comply with the ISCC PLUS requirements, in accordance with the latest ISCC regulations, and to avoid the practice of double counting our environmental contributions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thermoplastic elastomers SEPTON\u2122 and HYBRAR\u2122 as well as Liquid Rubber produced at Kashima Plant<br class=\"break-more-link\"><br class=\"break-more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elastomer.kuraray.com\/in\/news\/kuraray-acquires-iscc-plus-certification\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":942,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-news.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elastomer.kuraray.com\/in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elastomer.kuraray.com\/in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elastomer.kuraray.com\/in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elastomer.kuraray.com\/in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elastomer.kuraray.com\/in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elastomer.kuraray.com\/in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elastomer.kuraray.com\/in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elastomer.kuraray.com\/in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elastomer.kuraray.com\/in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elastomer.kuraray.com\/in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}