Titanium Dioxide

Life Cycle Assessment/Carbon Footprint:
Ti-Pure™ Titanium Dioxide Pigment

Chemours sustainability efforts are grounded in enabling
better lives for more people, in ways that are safeand have a lower impact on our planet. Our values—“customer centered, refreshing simplicity, collective
entrepreneurship, safety obsession, and unshakeable
integrity” are all aligned with sustainable business
operation, see https://www.chemours.com/our-company/values/.
The Titanium Technologies (TT) business has been
involved in exciting initiatives aimed at crafting thenecessary building blocks and compiling an industry
representative average for comprehensive environmental
footprint analysis, as described below:
Chemours was a leader in the Titanium Dioxide
Manufacturers Association (TDMA) project to determine
the cradle-to-gate life cycle inventory (LCI) of the
manufacturing processes for titanium dioxide products,
building upon an earlier carbon footprint initiative. Basedon this methodology, TDMA members contributed datato calculate an industry average carbon footprint numberthat represents more than half of the annual global
titanium dioxide products production. Chemours providedthird party verified data for all our production sites to thiseffort. The industry average data, as well as the underlying
methodology, are available at the TDMA website; see
http://www.tdma.info/sustainability, published in 2015.
TDMA encourages stakeholders to use the TDMA LCI
data as a building block in their own cradle-to-grave
footprint assessments of Titanium Dioxide applications.

Chemours actively participated in the American Coatings
Association and NSF International effort to develop a new
Product Category Rule (PCR) for architectural coatings.
The PCR provides a standardized method for conductinglife cycle assessments and measuring the environmental
impacts of coatings products, enabling the publicationof verifiable Environmental Product Declarations. For
more information on the PCR see http://www.paint.org/
publications-resources/regulatory-support/pcr-forarchitectural-coatings/
The TT business believes that sustainability should beassessed across the whole value chain, using a productlife cycle approach, from selecting and sourcing raw
materials to how the final product is used and disposed.
Determination of an industry average cradle-to-gatecarbon footprint has been an important steppingstone
on this journey. Our concept considers the performance
benefits delivered through a value chain in relation tothe footprint burdens. TiO2 is a versatile material which
provides efficient opacity, UV protection, extended life
and improved functionality. Therefore, the concept brings
into the equation essential attributes like protection,
durability or longevity, material use rates and aesthetics(e.g. color, texture, brightness). The PCR work describedabove accounts for the efficiency of use in the analysis
for a more complete product environmental footprint
perspective.
We would like to engage our value chain partners to
explore and optimize how our Ti-Pure™ titanium dioxide
products can enable downstream sustainability benefits.
Further questions should be directed to:TiO2ProductStewardship@chemours.com

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Titanium Dioxide

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