Elementis Specialties is now offering personal care industry customers BENTONE® organoclays that contain palm oil derivatives that have been certified in accordance with the standard of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO). "Elementis Specialties has discontinued the use of palm oil and palm oil derivatives that do not comply with RSPO in our organoclays.
In doing so, we are taking a definitive stance on sustainability to better support our customers in reaching their sustainability targets," said Luc van Ravenstein, Global Business Unit Director of the Personal Care Business. Elementis Specialties is one of the leading suppliers of raw materials for the cosmetics industry and uses, among other feedstock, derivatives of palm oil.
In December 2014, the Elementis manufacturing site in Livingston, Scotland, was certified to handle palm oil derivatives via the audited Mass Balance system, whereby a specific volume of sustainable palm oil derivatives enters the supply chain and is traced throughout.
As a member company of RSPO, Elementis Specialties is working to fulfill the vision of making the use of sustainable palm oil and palm oil derivatives the norm. Elementis Specialties seeks to protect and conserve the rich biodiversity found in tropical palm forests by using palm oil sourced from sustainable palm plantations that are responsible and responsive to the issues of soil degradation, biodiversity, local peoples and land rights.
