Forchem TOFA gCO2eq./kg 78 CARBON

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TOFA & DTO AT THE FOREFRONT OF LOW CARBON SOLUTIONS

* Forchem TOFA and DTO emissions are for year 2010. They include emissions from raw material production, operations in Rauma refinery and transportation (cradle-to-gate).

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Forchem DTO gCO2eq./kg 76 CARBON

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This calculation was conducted by Gaia Consulting Ltd. 2011

** Soybean and palm oil emission factors are from Ecoinvent v2.1 database. Emission vary between 770 and 1120 gCO2/kg depending on source.

The limited availability of the earth’s resources and growing consumer demand has turned the availability of natural resources and the state of the environment into a globally important question. Forchem tall oil products have a low carbon footprint, generating minimal volumes of greenhouse gases compared to alternative materials. Our raw material, crude tall oil (CTO) is an industrial by-product derived from the kraft pulping process. There is no additional use of natural resources. Forchem’s modern bio refinery is powered by 99 % bioenergy.

Forchem TOFA & DTO have lower carbon footprints compared to alternative materials such as soybean oil in e.g. paints and coatings. The carbon footprint of Forchem TOFA is only 78 gCO2eq./kg and Forchem DTO is only 76 gCO2eq./kg*, whereas soybean oil has significantly higher carbon footprint with 920 gCO2eq./kg**. This makes greenhouse emissions of vegetable oil alternatives as high as 12-fold compared to emissions of Forchem TOFA & DTO.

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Forchem assumes no responsibility or liability for the completeness and correctness of this analysis and this document including the data and information collected from raw material suppliers.

• Calculationsareconductedfollowingthebestavailablemethodolo- gies, i.e. life cycle assessment standards (ISO 14040 and ISO 14044).• Emissionsareforyear2010.Thepresentedresultsincludeemissions from raw material production and transportation and operations in Rauma refinery (cradle-to-gate).• Primarydatawascollectedandusedforallprocessesunderthe control of Forchem.• Secondarydatawascollectedfromavailabledatabases(mostly Ecoinventv.2.1)andusedtoestimatetheemissionsofrawmaterial production and transportation. When more accurate data was available in literature, the database data was further modified e.g. with national information for transportation emissions.

• Emissionsofcrudetalloilproduction(CTO)wereassumedtobe 3.5 % of the emissions of sulfate pulp production. This is based on the average amount of CTO produced as side-product in sulfate pulp processes in Finland (mass basis).• Thedirectemissions(e.g.electricityandfueluse)wereallocated to different products based on actual utility consumption for each product.• Transportationemissionsandrawmaterialemissions,including process water, were allocated to different products on mass basis (production amounts).• EmissionfactorforaverageNordicpulpmillisutilizedhere,as 90 % of the CTO originates from Nordic pulp mills. • ThiscalculationwasconductedbyGaiaConsultingLtd. (www.gaia.fi) for business-to-business purposes only.

METHODOLOGY FOR CARBON FOOTPRINT CALCULATIONS

This calculation was conducted by Gaia Consulting Ltd. 2011

Product carbon footprint is the sum of greenhouse gas emissions and greenhouse gas removals of a product system, expressed in CO2 equivalents.

Forchemutilizesalmostentirelybioenergy,whichenablesclimate-friendly operations and the production facility is located next to a pulp mill which reduces the emissions from raw material logistics.

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Forchem products are increasingly used by formulators and producers in support of their development of new, technically advanced, yet more sustainable products.

TheEuropean–producedForchemTOFAandDTOareusedto satisfy the demands of today’s environmentally aware consumers and global markets.