Following three years of work to develop a low carbon ethylene oxide (EO) product and as part of its drive to reach carbon neutrality by 2050, Ineos Oxide has launched and made the first sales of its ‘bio-attributed EO’. Both the Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials and International Sustainability & Carbon Certification Plus have certified that this is 100% renewable on a mass balance basis, not competing with food production, and delivers a greenhouse gas saving of over 100% compared to conventionally produced EO.

Ineos subsidiary Inovyn has become the world’s first commercial producer of bio-attributed epichlorohydrin from renewable feedstock. Branded Reodrin, this is made at a site in Tavaux, France. Applications are expected in sectors including composites for wind turbines, wastewater treatment and lightweight coatings for electric vehicles.