Integrated Report 2020
Braskem
INTEGRATED
REPORT 2020
CAPITAL PERFORMANCE
A MESSAGE FROM THE BUSINESS LEADER
BRASKEM
STRATEGIC PLANNING
ABOUT THE REPORT
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Key Innovations
Today Braskem holds a portfolio of 120 innovation proj-
ects with a net present value (NPV) of approximately
R$ 8 billion in different fronts:
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• Recycling: projects for both mechanical and chemical
recycling.
Objective: to accelerate the shift towards circular
economy solutions, strengthening our reputation as a
leader in sustainability.
• Lightweight: seek solutions with less weight in the final
product for the packaging industry and the automotive
sector.
Objective: to contribute to a more sustainable world, re-
ducing waste generation and greenhouse gas emissions.
New design copolymers: production of a new family of
copolymers with customized properties.
Objective: to grow the business in markets having high-
er added value.
Cleaner polyolefins: platform that increases the com-
petitiveness of our polyolefin portfolio.
Objective: to anticipate regulatory and chemical safety
trends.
Activation and prepolymerization: process improve-
ment projects.
Objective: improve productivity or reduce costs.
SUSTAINABILITY INDEX
We developed and implemented the Sustainability Index
for the entire portfolio of Innovation and Technology
(I&T) projects, and this is now part of the standard plan-
ning process and approval pipeline for I&T projects. The
Index aims to ensure overall alignment with sustainabili-
ty, and all projects are assessed in terms of sustainability
from the early planning phase. A new project may have
a positive, neutral or negative impact on each dimen-
sion (water, energy, chemical safety, process/product,
greenhouse gas emissions and circularity). In 2020, 80%
of the I&T projects had a positive impact on the Sustain-
ability Index.
GREEN MEG
We have enhanced our Green MEG (monoethylene glycol)
production, a raw material for PET that moves about R$ 25
billion a year. In 2017, we signed a technological cooperation
agreement to develop a pioneering path for the produc-
tion of MEG from sugar, with a demonstration unit starting
in 2019 to showcase the key design characteristics of the
pioneering technology that transforms sugar into renew-
able MEG. In 2020, we announced the first production of
renewable MEG on a demonstration scale, and the next step
includes making samples available for testing and validation
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