Huntsman: Empowering a low-carbon economy to light up a green future

On July 15, Huntsman Group released the 2020 Sustainability Report ""Lighting the Future"-Innovative Solutions to Help the Development of a Low-Carbon Economy"
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The report pointed out that last year, Huntsman launched the "2025 Vision" mid-term plan, and 2020 has also become the first harvest year in the plan

In China, Huntsman fully empowers downstream customers to save energy, reduce emissions, and transform low-carbon, effectively driving the green upgrade of downstream industries, developing a green and low-carbon economy, and helping China achieve its “dual-carbon” goal, and create a more sustainable environment for human society.
Green future
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In 2020, Huntsman will actively respond to the severe challenge of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, continue to optimize its production and operation model, and make three arrows in energy saving, waste reduction, emission reduction, carbon reduction, and safe production.
It will actively explore the potential of low-carbon economy as the core.
The sustainable development model also guarantees a stable supply of materials with green production and operation, and contributes to global anti-epidemic and socio-economic recovery
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Peter R.
Huntsman, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Group, said: “The COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 will spread globally.
We must continue to serve our customers while adopting innovative methods to ensure the safety of our employees
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The global pandemic has caused We have become an interdependent community of destiny, which also highlights the importance of business having strong anti-risk capabilities

Green production shoulders the green mission
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Compared with 2019, Huntsman has achieved substantial reductions in key environmental indicators such as total energy consumption, total greenhouse gas emissions, total air pollutant emissions, total drainage, and harmful emissions

Huntsman insists on innovation-oriented, empowerment, and joins hands with downstream green upgrades
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Huntsman insists on taking customer value as the strategic starting point and low-carbon economy as the mission basis to drive business expansion into the key downstream areas of low-carbon and green economy

　　How to turn waste into treasure is a severe challenge facing the waste plastic industry nowadays
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The report believes that turning waste into treasure requires a new path

　　Transportation emissions are increasing day by day, and how to achieve vehicle emissions reduction has become the focus of attention
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Huntsman Group has innovated and developed ULTRAPURE ethylene carbonate to promote the transmission of lithium ions in the battery and prolong the service life of the battery, thereby reducing emissions by boosting the development of new energy vehicles

　　In addition, Huntsman uses innovation and research and development solutions to reduce water resources and energy consumption in the textile industry, breaking through the bottleneck of energy conservation and consumption reduction
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The SE rapid dyeing process developed by Huntsman, which combines AVITERA SE reactive dyes and TERASIL W/WW dyes, can save water every year for factories with a daily output of 100 tons of textiles (40% of which are polyester-cotton blends).

　　Since 2018, Huntsman has continued to upgrade and renew the four innovative sustainable development solutions in China, namely, insulation solutions (helping air pollution farewell), automotive solutions (helping low-carbon and green travel), and food supply chain solutions (Helping food safety and freshness) and environmentally friendly solvent-free solutions (helping environmental protection reject solvents), creating a low-carbon economy business operation model and industrial symbiosis system, empowering the green transformation of downstream industries, and helping China achieve the "dual carbon" goal