Sun Chemical Issues Carbon Footprint Report


Report Quantifies the Carbon Footprint for Nine Key Products

PARSIPPANY, NJ, USA - November 1, 2010 - In order to support customer efforts to meet their sustainability goals and to do so with data-driven metrics, Sun Chemical released a report called "Carbon Footprint Report 2010" which outlines the results from nine recently completed independent environmental analyses focused on quantifying the carbon footprint of its product lines.

The results outlined in the report provide data that will be used by Sun Chemical to further enhance its processes to have less environmental impact across all product lines and business activities. A key part of Sun Chemical's sustainability policy is to be data-driven in understanding its impacts on the environment. The completion and reporting of these analyses is a major component of the data-driven aspect of the policy.

The analyses focused on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions associated with the product manufacturing and distribution phases, or the "gate-to-customer gate" lifecycle of Sun Chemical's products.

"Our customers and the marketplace are looking for much more than the standard sustainability rhetoric; they want to know what their suppliers are doing to improve their sustainability performance," said Michel Vanhems, Sun Chemical's Sustainability Leader. "At Sun Chemical, we're digging deep to get specific numbers to use in evaluating opportunities to reduce our carbon footprint as well as support our customers' efforts to determine the GHG impact of their products and meet their sustainability goals."

The analyses covered six of the Sun Chemical product lines, totaling nine products representing approximately 90 percent of the products it offers, including: coldset black inks, coldset color inks, publication gravure inks, nitrocellulose bases, nitrocellulose inks, water-based flexographic inks, water-based flexo dispersions, energy curing inks, and heatset inks. These analyses encompassed nine different manufacturing plants in North America and Europe.

The "gate-to-customer gate" assessments were conducted in accordance with the principles outlined by both the International Organization for Standardization in its ISO 14040 - "Lifecycle assessment-principles and framework" and ISO 14044 - "Lifecycle assessment-requirements and guidelines," and the PAS2050 from the British Standards Institute - "Specification for the measurement of the embodied GHG emissions in products and services." The analyses also considered the GHGs governed by the Kyoto Protocol.

The "Carbon Footprint Report 2010" is available to customers and can be requested online at www.sunchemical.com/sustainability.

The analyses were conducted by ENVIRON International Corporation, a highly regarded environmental consultant with whom Sun Chemical has worked for many years. As part of its ongoing effort to assist its customers in identifying the key data inputs for their greenhouse gases lifecycle analysis, Sun Chemical offers, along with its partner, ENVIRON, SunCare® Environmental Services in North America and Sun Chemical Consulting in Europe.

Customers in the U.S. can calculate the initial carbon footprint for their facility operations by visiting www.sunchemical.com/suncare.

About Sun Chemical's Sustainability Policy

Sun Chemical's sustainability policy stresses its responsibility to raise awareness about environmental issues in the graphic arts industry. Product stewardship and risk management are also important components of the policy as well as a commitment to take an analytical-based approach to its efforts.

Providing customers with eco-efficiency can be achieved through the delivery of economically competitive products and services that satisfy customers' needs and bring quality of life, while progressively reducing its ecological impact on the environment. Sun Chemical's commitment crosses three dimensions: product stewardship and risk management, processes, and products. In order to reach the goal of eco-efficiency, Sun Chemical will be data-driven in its approach.

The data-driven approach in its policy means Sun Chemical will be able to set improvement targets for its processes on energy and water consumption, greenhouse gas emissions, and solid waste emissions as well as develop products with a structured approach that includes risk management and eco-efficiency improvements as criteria.

Focusing on "Getting More---Using Less-Eco-efficiency," Sun Chemical's sustainability policy underscores its proactive role in understanding its environmental impact and its customers' impact on the environment.

About Sun Chemical

Sun Chemical, a member of the DIC group, is the world's largest producer of printing inks and pigments and a leading provider of materials to packaging, publication, coatings, plastics, cosmetics, and other industrial markets. With annual sales over $3.5 billion, Sun Chemical has more than 10,000 employees supporting customers around the world.

Sun Chemical Corporation is a subsidiary of Sun Chemical Group Coöperatief U.A., the Netherlands, and is headquartered in Parsippany, New Jersey, U.S.A. For more information, please visit our Web site at www.sunchemical.com.

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