Grace' global Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS) policies require us to conduct business and operate facilities in an environmentally sound manner with a focus on eliminating unplanned environmental releases, improving efficiencies and reducing waste, and meeting community, state, and national regulations in jurisdictions where we operate around the world.
To that end, for over two decades, Grace has implemented an annual productivity program of continuous improvement projects throughout our operations.
Year over year, this relentless focus on improvement drives significant efficiencies in our manufacturing operations, making them less resource-intensive for energy, water, and raw materials, all while improving yields and better managing costs.
As an ongoing part of our Responsible Care Management System, we regularly assess the environmental aspects of our activities, products, and services and their associated environmental impacts.
We are committed to cutting energy consumption and associated greenhouse gas emissions by improving energy efficiency and sourcing energy from renewables. And we’re committed to reducing water consumption throughout our operations, reusing water where feasible and treating and discharging wastewater in accordance with all applicable regulations.
As examples of these efforts:
- In our facilities, we utilize pollution control devices such as baghouses and scrubbers to ensure dust, particulate and fugitive emissions do not exceed federal, national, state or local emission standards.
- We actively work to minimize the generation of hazardous waste by partnering with recycling facilities and vendors to reclaim metals and spent solvents, reclaim and recycle mercury, minimize the disposal of waste drums and more.
- We continue to increase the activity of our catalysts, providing downstream efficiency benefits to our customers, such as reducing the amount of feedstock required to separate and create petrochemicals.
- And we recover, reuse and resell byproducts such as high-concentration sodium aluminate and silica residues.
Our public Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) Climate Response can be found here. And our public CDP Water Response can be found here.