Rain Carbon Inc – Sustainability

Guided by our corporate vision to be the world's most trusted and resourceful provider of diversified carbon products and advanced materials, our businesses are committed to a sustainable environment and maintaining the ecological, social and economic well-being of future generations.

Our sustainability mission builds on the material topics and the focal areas developed over the last years and encompasses three pillars describing our contributions to sustainable development as well as our forward-looking approach.

ESSENTIAL CARBON FOR A SUSTAINABLE TRANSITION

ESSENTIAL CARBON FOR A SUSTAINABLE TRANSITION
Rain Carbon is a RESOURCEFUL company that takes by-products destined for combustion and links them instead with value added products to enable lower carbon emission and environmentally more sustainable outcomes.
SETTING THE STANDARD

SETTING THE STANDARD
Rain Carbon runs its operations in a RESPONSIBLE way, sets high standards, is transparent about its performance and accountable for its results.
FUTURE-FIT

FUTURE-FIT
For Rain Carbon, a sustainable talent ecosystem is important in order to remain a RELIABLE partner for the future. We create highly engaging working environments for our employees where collaboration and teamwork are of the highest importance. We leverage this talent ecosystem to constantly grow our in-depth product- and process-specific knowledge.

We believe that our robust ENVIRONMENTAL, SOCIAL AND GOVERNANCE (ESG) framework helps us to fulfill our commitment toward maximizing positive, and minimizing negative, environmental and social impacts that arise from our operations. We are also committed to good corporate governance, which enables us to strengthen our sustainability practices.

Sustainability Report 2023

Sustainability Ratings and Certifications

Our voluntary participation in sustainability ratings and certification efforts underlines our commitment. Sustainability ratings enable us to highlight our performance related to environmental, social and governance issues based on independent evaluations.

Ecovadis Sustainability Rating

EcoVadis provides companies with holistic sustainability ratings using an evidence-based, online platform. The EcoVadis rating covers a broad range of non-financial management systems including environmental, labor and human rights, ethics and sustainable procurement.

Gold medals for our distillation and advanced materials businesses in Belgium, Germany and Canada
Silver medal for our calcination business in the United States

CDP Climate Change

CDP is a global non-profit organization that uses standardized questionnaires to annually collect data on greenhouse gas emissions, climate risks as well as companies’ reduction targets and strategies. Fully aligned with the Task Force on Climate-Related Disclosures (TCFD), CDP holds the largest environmental database in the world, and CDP scores are widely used to drive investment and procurement decisions towards a zero carbon, sustainable and resilient economy. In 2023, Rain Carbon’s operations in Germany attained a C score (awareness-level engagement). The awareness score measures the comprehensiveness of a company’s evaluation of how environmental issues intersect with its business, and how its operations affect people and ecosystems.

IntegrityNext

IntegrityNext helps companies build more transparent and sustainable supply chains to meet the demands of an economy undergoing rapid change and fundamental transformation. Rain Carbon’s operations in Germany and Canada have gone through the IntegrityNext self-assessment and are working to communicate our efforts to develop a more sustainable supply chain to our customers.

ISCC PLUS

ISCC (International Sustainability & Carbon Certification) is a recognized organization that certifies bio-based and recycled feedstocks across the entire value chain, from source to end-product. Our two German sites have an ISCC PLUS certification, enabling Rain Carbon to market several products from our advanced material business under the NOVARES ECO^® label (100% ISCC PLUS compliant - based on mass allocation).

United Nations (UN) Global Compact

Rain Carbon is an active participant of the UN Global Compact, a voluntary and world’s largest corporate sustainability initiative. It is based on company commitments to implement universal sustainability principles and to advance UN goals such as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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Key Industry Memberships

Rain Carbon is an active member of multiple industry associations, which enables us to discuss and debate key issues with peer companies, customers and other member organizations. Industry groups, therefore, are an important platform for Rain Carbon to engage with stakeholders on a range of topics including sustainability. Our engagement in industry associations also allows us to highlight the important contributions our products make to society and our customers' efforts to reduce their environmental footprint.