Green Statement

No matter which of our products you buy, we are committed to minimizing our environmental impact.

Operating under the Guiding Principles of Responsible Care^®, we strive to continuously improve our health, safety, and environmental performances. By becoming a national member of the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), Evonik Cyro takes environmental stewardship a step further. Our goal is to improve the environment by supplying sustainable and long-living acrylic products to the green building sector and to all other markets we serve. 

Recycling

• Evonik Cyro acrylic products are one of the most readily recyclable plastics. Some grades can be re-extruded many times without losing their properties. Our acrylics can be "reverse-polymerized" to yield the original base chemical, MMA, which can then be used to make acrylic again or a number of other commercial products.
• Evonik Cyro uses an average of 20 percent and up to 75 percent pre-consumer reclaimed acrylic in its extruded acrylic products.

Health

• Evonik Cyro is one of the few manufacturers using only colorants that are free of heavy metals in its acrylic products and has done so since the 1980's.
• Evonik Cyro acrylic products are free of bisphenol A.
• Evonik Cyro does not add or use plasticizers in the production of our acrylic products. 
• Evonik Cyro acrylic product do not contain components such as formaldehyde that can result in the release of harmful vapors or gases.
• Evonik Cyro acrylic products do not contain paints or adhesives.

Manufacturing

• Evonik Cyro produces its acrylic monomer, polymer, and sheet in integrated manufacturing facilities in several locations across North America, helping to reduce the energy and CO₂ impact involved in the transportation of its raw materials and finshed products.
• Evonik Cyro operates a "one-of-a-kind" biological pollution control system that uses bacteria to remove and eliminate solvent fumes from its process. This cutting edge technology minimizes the impact of our facility on the environment.
• Evonik Cyro product plants are ISO 14001 certified to meet strict standards of environmental responsibility.