Final Up to date on November 1, 2022 by GlobeNewsWire
Novozymes Titled EPA Safer Selection Associate of the Yr for Second Consecutive Yr
World’s Main Biotech Powerhouse Acknowledged for Offering and Advocating for Elements that Create Safer Detergents
Franklinton, NC – November 1, 2022. Novozymes was named a 2022 Safer Selection(R) Associate of the Yr by the U.S. Environmental Safety Company (EPA) for excellent achievement within the manufacture of substances which can be safer for households, pets, workplaces, communities, and the surroundings. Novozymes is among the many 26 Safer Selection Associate of the Yr award winners introduced by the EPA in 2022.
The Safer Selection program helps customers and purchasers for amenities, equivalent to faculties and workplace buildings, discover merchandise that carry out and are safer for human well being and the surroundings. Novozymes’ recognition is predicated on the corporate’s progressive method to creating enzymes to be integrated into safer detergents, and for spreading consciousness of Safer Selection advocating to be used of Safer Selection substances.
“We’re proud to once more be receiving this recognition as a Safer Selection Associate,” mentioned Arnaud Melin, VP of Client Biosolutions, Americas, at Novozymes. “Alongside our business companions we’re striving to construct the subsequent technology of cleansing merchandise, beginning with laundry detergents, to scale back chemical and carbon footprints by leveraging sustainable, organic options.”
Decarbonization of the cleansing business is likely one of the key targets for Novozymes’ organic detergent initiative. Sometimes, detergents are manufactured from substances equivalent to surfactants, polymers, and solvents. These fossil-derived chemical substances can account for as much as 46% of a detergent’s carbon footprint. However Novozymes enzymes can partially exchange the chemical substances in laundry detergents with extra climate-friendly biobased substances.
Shoppers and purchasers are more and more asking for eco-friendly merchandise which can be gentler on the planet and for end-users. The Safer Selection program makes it simpler for individuals to determine the merchandise that obtain that, whereas not compromising on efficiency and value. “We’re proud to acknowledge Novozymes North America in Raleigh, North Carolina for his or her work to fabricate safer chemical substances in a sustainable method,” mentioned EPA Area 4 Administrator Daniel Blackman. “Their achievements in selling the Safer Selection program and supporting formulators to change into Safer Selection licensed in the end offers customers and industrial patrons with merchandise which can be safer for communities and the surroundings.”
Novozymes is on an formidable journey to allow organic detergents with out compromising wash efficiency and value. The corporate continues to construct its product portfolio to assist business companions to launch U.S. EPA Safer Selection authorised client merchandise. In 2021, Novozymes added seven substances to CleanGredients, a database of chemical substances pre-approved to be used in Safer Selection-certified merchandise, together with its newest innovation to take away physique grime from garments, Pristine(R) 100 T. Novozymes supported 12 requests made by formulators and model house owners for certification of formulations by the Safer Selection program. Novozymes additionally leveraged owned media to advertise each the U.S. EPA Safer Selection program, in addition to Novozymes’ product strains that allow formulators and retailers to supply cleansing merchandise that carry the Safer Selection emblem.
The corporate additionally ran a survey of 1,000 customers in america to assemble information on client notion of Safer Selection as essentially the most reliable certification on laundry merchandise. Novozymes offered this info to formulators to assist them perceive how Safer Selection certification allows industrial success. Novozymes confirmed its dedication to EPA’s objective of addressing local weather change by working to scale back carbon emissions. Novozymes has additionally dedicated to making sure zero waste by 2030. The corporate is effectively on its solution to this objective, with a recycling price of non-biomass waste at 62% in 2021, in comparison with 48% in 2020. The corporate additionally efficiently advocated throughout the Family & Business Merchandise Affiliation (HCPA) and the Sustainable Chemistry Alliance (SCA) for these organizations to prioritize supporting Safer Selection.
“Our firm objective states ‘Collectively, we discover organic solutions for higher lives in a rising world.’ A significant factor of this isn’t simply doing our half with our personal merchandise, but additionally educating and empowering others, whether or not that be our industrial prospects, the organizations we accomplice with, or most of the people, to discover and undertake these options’” mentioned Melin. “We understood that formulators, retailers, and customers have to construct consciousness towards each U.S. EPA Safer Selection and Novozymes’ Safer Selection product strains simply so as to construct product formulations which can be environmentally pleasant. Striving for and incomes that Safer Selection customary demonstrates a dedication to rethinking tomorrow.”
To qualify for the Safer Selection label, a product should meet EPA’s Safer Selection Customary, which incorporates stringent human and environmental well being standards. The Safer Selection program at the moment companions with about 350 formulator-manufacturer companions who make almost 2,000 Safer Selection-certified merchandise for each customers and industrial patrons.
Extra info on the 2022 Safer Selection Associate of the Yr Award winners may be discovered at www.epa.gov/saferchoice/safer-choice-partner-year-awards. Click on right here for the Novozymes Safer Selection Associate of the Yr video.
About Novozymes Novozymes is the world chief in organic options. Along with prospects, companions, and the worldwide neighborhood, we enhance industrial efficiency whereas preserving the planet’s assets and serving to construct higher lives. Because the world’s largest supplier of enzyme and microbial applied sciences, our bioinnovation allows greater agricultural yields, low-temperature washing, energy-efficient manufacturing, renewable gas, and lots of different advantages that we depend on right now and sooner or later. We name it Rethink Tomorrow. www.novozymes.com
NASDAQ OMX: NZYM-B o 6,500 staff o DKK 15 billion turnover o 30+ industries o 700+ merchandise
Media Relations Lina Danstrup Head of Media Relations Cellphone: +45 30 77 05 52 lind@novozymes.com
Kathy Humphrey Head of Communications, North AmericaPhone: 919-494-8764khp@novozymes.com
World’s Main Biotech Powerhouse Acknowledged for Offering and Advocating for Elements that Create Safer Detergents
Franklinton, NC – November 1, 2022. Novozymes was named a 2022 Safer Selection(R) Associate of the Yr by the U.S. Environmental Safety Company (EPA) for excellent achievement within the manufacture of substances which can be safer for households, pets, workplaces, communities, and the surroundings. Novozymes is among the many 26 Safer Selection Associate of the Yr award winners introduced by the EPA in 2022.
The Safer Selection program helps customers and purchasers for amenities, equivalent to faculties and workplace buildings, discover merchandise that carry out and are safer for human well being and the surroundings. Novozymes’ recognition is predicated on the corporate’s progressive method to creating enzymes to be integrated into safer detergents, and for spreading consciousness of Safer Selection advocating to be used of Safer Selection substances.
“We’re proud to once more be receiving this recognition as a Safer Selection Associate,” mentioned Arnaud Melin, VP of Client Biosolutions, Americas, at Novozymes. “Alongside our business companions we’re striving to construct the subsequent technology of cleansing merchandise, beginning with laundry detergents, to scale back chemical and carbon footprints by leveraging sustainable, organic options.”
Decarbonization of the cleansing business is likely one of the key targets for Novozymes’ organic detergent initiative. Sometimes, detergents are manufactured from substances equivalent to surfactants, polymers, and solvents. These fossil-derived chemical substances can account for as much as 46% of a detergent’s carbon footprint. However Novozymes enzymes can partially exchange the chemical substances in laundry detergents with extra climate-friendly biobased substances.
Shoppers and purchasers are more and more asking for eco-friendly merchandise which can be gentler on the planet and for end-users. The Safer Selection program makes it simpler for individuals to determine the merchandise that obtain that, whereas not compromising on efficiency and value. “We’re proud to acknowledge Novozymes North America in Raleigh, North Carolina for his or her work to fabricate safer chemical substances in a sustainable method,” mentioned EPA Area 4 Administrator Daniel Blackman. “Their achievements in selling the Safer Selection program and supporting formulators to change into Safer Selection licensed in the end offers customers and industrial patrons with merchandise which can be safer for communities and the surroundings.”
Novozymes is on an formidable journey to allow organic detergents with out compromising wash efficiency and value. The corporate continues to construct its product portfolio to assist business companions to launch U.S. EPA Safer Selection authorised client merchandise. In 2021, Novozymes added seven substances to CleanGredients, a database of chemical substances pre-approved to be used in Safer Selection-certified merchandise, together with its newest innovation to take away physique grime from garments, Pristine(R) 100 T. Novozymes supported 12 requests made by formulators and model house owners for certification of formulations by the Safer Selection program. Novozymes additionally leveraged owned media to advertise each the U.S. EPA Safer Selection program, in addition to Novozymes’ product strains that allow formulators and retailers to supply cleansing merchandise that carry the Safer Selection emblem.
The corporate additionally ran a survey of 1,000 customers in america to assemble information on client notion of Safer Selection as essentially the most reliable certification on laundry merchandise. Novozymes offered this info to formulators to assist them perceive how Safer Selection certification allows industrial success. Novozymes confirmed its dedication to EPA’s objective of addressing local weather change by working to scale back carbon emissions. Novozymes has additionally dedicated to making sure zero waste by 2030. The corporate is effectively on its solution to this objective, with a recycling price of non-biomass waste at 62% in 2021, in comparison with 48% in 2020. The corporate additionally efficiently advocated throughout the Family & Business Merchandise Affiliation (HCPA) and the Sustainable Chemistry Alliance (SCA) for these organizations to prioritize supporting Safer Selection.
“Our firm objective states ‘Collectively, we discover organic solutions for higher lives in a rising world.’ A significant factor of this isn’t simply doing our half with our personal merchandise, but additionally educating and empowering others, whether or not that be our industrial prospects, the organizations we accomplice with, or most of the people, to discover and undertake these options’” mentioned Melin. “We understood that formulators, retailers, and customers have to construct consciousness towards each U.S. EPA Safer Selection and Novozymes’ Safer Selection product strains simply so as to construct product formulations which can be environmentally pleasant. Striving for and incomes that Safer Selection customary demonstrates a dedication to rethinking tomorrow.”
To qualify for the Safer Selection label, a product should meet EPA’s Safer Selection Customary, which incorporates stringent human and environmental well being standards. The Safer Selection program at the moment companions with about 350 formulator-manufacturer companions who make almost 2,000 Safer Selection-certified merchandise for each customers and industrial patrons.
Extra info on the 2022 Safer Selection Associate of the Yr Award winners may be discovered at www.epa.gov/saferchoice/safer-choice-partner-year-awards. Click on right here for the Novozymes Safer Selection Associate of the Yr video.
About Novozymes Novozymes is the world chief in organic options. Along with prospects, companions, and the worldwide neighborhood, we enhance industrial efficiency whereas preserving the planet’s assets and serving to construct higher lives. Because the world’s largest supplier of enzyme and microbial applied sciences, our bioinnovation allows greater agricultural yields, low-temperature washing, energy-efficient manufacturing, renewable gas, and lots of different advantages that we depend on right now and sooner or later. We name it Rethink Tomorrow. www.novozymes.com
NASDAQ OMX: NZYM-B o 6,500 staff o DKK 15 billion turnover o 30+ industries o 700+ merchandise
Media Relations Lina Danstrup Head of Media Relations Cellphone: +45 30 77 05 52 lind@novozymes.com
Kathy Humphrey Head of Communications, North AmericaPhone: 919-494-8764khp@novozymes.com
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