VCR Inc. Canadian chemical manufacturers produce a broad range of petrochemicals, inorganic chemicals, polymers, and other organic and specialty chemicals.
Chemical production is energy intensive.
As a result, energy efficiency continues to be a high priority for the industry. Greenhouse gas emissions from the industry result, primarily from energy consumption, but also from industrial process emissions and fugitive emissions. In 1999, CCPA member companies reported a decline in emissions of twelve percent for a total reduction of 63 percent or 171,000 tonnes since 1992 - the first year of formal emissions reporting under Responsible Care . Since 1992, the rate of members' emissions reduction has outpaced the increase in chemical production. Today, a unit of chemical product is manufactured with 71 percent less chemical emissions than in 1992.