On the way to lower the carbon emissions of the coil coating industry

Joint discussion with Thomas Lüder - BECKERS

Explore the need to develop materials with a lower carbon footprint and how the coil coating industry can contribute by creating solutions that reduce carbon emissions.

As steel production decarbonizes, the impact of coatings will become more significant. Beckers Group and Arkema will present advances in renewable materials, VOC reduction, and disruptive technologies like UV/EB systems to lower carbon emissions during application.

Abstract

One of the biggest challenges faced by the built environment is to reduce its environmental footprint as buildings are responsible for about 40% of global energy related CO2 emissions.* The effort to decarbonize the sector were initially focused on improving building efficiency, but since the last decade, emissions of the materials are gaining more and more attention under the impulsion of the World Green Building Council with certifications such as LEED & BREEAM. With the progressing decarbonization of steel production, the impact of coatings will become more visible and will create a need for the value chain to develop lower carbon footprint coating solutions for the coil industry. Beckers and Arkema will present latest advances addressing all aspects of the value chain from the use of renewable materials, to the reduction of VOCs with high yield solutions and the development of disruptive technologies such as the UV/EB systems to lower emissions during the application process.

Key takeaways

Use cases:

Building & construction market: a major impact on global emission
What is prepainted metal? A snapshot of value chain players
Sustainability drivers for prepainted metal in construction
Challenge for prepainted metal: Coating will become a carbon hotspot
Coil coatings total carbon footprint dominated by scope 2: key levers to decarbonize
Product carbon footprint (PCF) of Raw Materials needs strong reduction efforts
Application technology of coil coatings drives footprint
UV/LED/EB curing technology
- Completely changes Coating applications
- Drastically reduces prepainted metal carbon footprint
- Implementation & next steps