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Celanese Performance Solutions Switzerland Sàrl

Celanese is a global technology and specialty chemical company.

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Response to Circular Economy Act

30 Oct 2025

Celanese welcomes the European Commissions legislative initiative on the Circular Economy Act and fully supports its objectives to improve resource efficiency and industrial value chains. In this context, we wish to underline the critical importance of explicitly including Carbon Capture and Utilisation (CCU) or carbon recycling as a key pillar of the act. CCU technologies are circular by nature. They recycle carbon emissions into valuable raw materials, directly supporting EUs goals of defossilising carbon reliant industries and creating a circular carbon economy. We therefore urge the Commission to broaden the current policy focus beyond recycled content targets toward a more comprehensive, innovation-driven approach that encompasses all forms of circular carbon feedstocks, including recycled, bio-based, and captured carbon. Excluding CCU from the scope of the Circular Economy Act would represent a major missed opportunity to achieve Europes circular economy and climate objectives. CCU does not replace existing solutions such as mechanical or chemical recycling; rather, it complements them by addressing their limitations and providing an alternative to the continued dependence on virgin fossil resources. Currently, EU policies emphasize recycled content in products as the primary means to drive circularity. While increasing recycling is crucial, a recycled-only focus is insufficient to achieve Europes environmental targets. Other sustainable, non-fossil carbon sources, such as bio-based materials and carbon capture and utilization (CCU) based materials, can and should complement recycling. The Circular Economy Act and related legislation should explicitly recognize and incentivize all forms of circular feedstocks (recycled, bio-based, and CCU-based) rather than limiting targets to recycled materials alone. This broader, technology-neutral approach will maximize circular innovation, economic resilience, and sustainability gains. In its Industrial Carbon Management strategy (COM(2024) 62), the European Commission set an aspirational goal that at least 20% of the carbon used in chemical and plastic products should come from sustainable, non-fossil sources by 2030. This can be achieved with industrial carbon capture for carbon-dependent value chains, whereby CCU-based carbon would substitute virgin fossil-based carbon in industrial products. The Circular Economy Act should translate this vision into practice by ensuring that circular content targets in all EU product-specific legislation (such as the End-of-Life Vehicle Regulation or the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation, among others) are adjusted to cover recycled, bio-based, and CCU-based content.
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Response to Legislative initiative on CO2 transportation infrastructure and markets

11 Sept 2025

Celanese highly welcomes the European Commissions legislative initiative on CO2 transportation infrastructure and markets as a necessary first step of a fully-fledged EU CCUS policy framework. However, it is of critical importance for the upscale of CCUS technologies in Europe that this framework is completed with all necessary provisions encompassing the capture, transport, storage and utilisation of CO2 in all possible industry applications, in line with the 2024 Industrial Carbon Management Strategy. This comprehensive EU CCUS policy framework should be developed as a top priority of the Clean Industrial Deal, enabling the EU to reach its 2030, 2040 and 2050 climate targets, and enabling a circular economy for industrial carbon in Europe.
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Meeting with Bruno Tobback (Member of the European Parliament)

14 Jul 2025 · The challenges of European chemical industry and advancing Europe's industrial and competitiveness policies

Response to EU emissions trading system for maritime, aviation and stationary installations, and market stability reserve - review

1 Jul 2025

Celanese is a global chemical and specialty materials company with over 11,000 employees worldwide and a strong European presence, including manufacturing sites in Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Italy, and more. Our engineered materials are used in critical industrial and consumer applications from automotive and construction to electronics and healthcare. As such, Celanese follows with great interest EU initiatives in the field of climate and energy policy as well as industrial competitiveness, among others. Celanese would like to put forward the following recommendations to help shape an effective and fit-for-purpose EU ETS that is coherent with other legislative frameworks and enables fast defossilisation: - Recognise CCU and low-carbon CCU-based products under the EU ETS; foster trust in verified CCU-based products through EU-recognised certification schemes, allowing for clear and commonly agreed mass balance rules on the input materials. - Enable carbon emission reductions and innovation in CCU-based products. - Create the financial conditions for the market uptake of CCU. - Recognise and enhance the prevention and storage of carbon emissions throughout the whole lifecycle of the product. Each of the above recommendations is further developed in the attached document to this contribution. Celanese remains available to engage further in the development of the EU ETS and related framework to support faster GHG emission reductions, technology investments, enhanced industrial competitiveness, and a truly circular low-carbon EU economy.
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Meeting with Sofja Ribkina (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis) and EPPA SA and McDermott Will & Emery LLP and its affiliates

28 Sept 2021 · Anti-dumping expiry review R727 Ace-K; introduction to Celanese activities

Meeting with Nele Eichhorn (Cabinet of Vice-President Cecilia Malmström) and McDermott Will & Emery Belgium LLP

11 Aug 2015 · Anti-dumping proceeding on Acesulfame Potassium (Ace-K)