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ICL Innovation seeks innovative early-stage technologies, novel materials and cost effective production processes that can be incorporated by its subsidiaries into their products in the areas of emission control, and to replace the use of methyl bromide in soil and space fumigation applications.
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Examples of Environment-Related Products
Emission control materials: Coal burning power plants are the largest source of anthropogenic mercury pollution in the environment. The EPA, US National Research Council, the World Health Organization and other health agencies agree that reduction of this pollutant is required in order to maintain human health.
Bromine-containing compounds can be added to the coal, injected into boilers or impregnated in sorbents to oxidize mercury effluents, thereby enhancing the overall removal of mercury in downstream pollution control equipment.
ICL’s MERQUEL® products are based on the mercury oxidizing agent that is recommended for use when coal-fired power generators and incinerators need to reduce mercury emissions. MERQUEL® products act through an oxidation process in which mercury present in the flue gas is oxidized into ionic species that are removable via downstream pollution control devices.
Soil and space fumigation: ICL Industrial Products supplies methyl bromide for space and soil treatment. In keeping with the Montreal Protocol, ICL-IP is committed to the cautious use of methyl bromide, supporting the gradual reduction of its use in soil treatment, and providing high quality material for its use in quarantine pre-shipment application. ICL-IP’s vision is to assist modern agriculture achieve higher yields through more economic and environmental utilization of natural resources.
ICL’s Sustainable Index for Product Development
The manufacture of products with a maximum positive impact and minimum negative impact throughout the life cycle requires optimal product planning from the development stage. As part of its process for developing new products, ICL considers environmental and health factors as well as commercial and operational considerations. All potential material to be used for development is comprehensively and rigorously tested to specify the physical properties of the material, including its efficiency, toxicity to humans and the environment, and more.
To assimilate environmental and health criteria, ICL Industrial Products has developed a sustainability index for substances under development, with the aim of determining parameters for a sustainable product in the development stage. In accordance with the index, each product is assessed and graded during the development process according to defined parameters, and based on the grading results, a program of development changes is prepared.
The parameters selected for the sustainability index for materials under development include considerations throughout the product life cycle, such as the properties of materials and raw materials, the use of solubles in the synthesis process and the waste produced in the process. The object is to develop products with molecules or polymers that are too large to penetrate biological membranes, thereby reducing the potential for the substances to be absorbed into organisms and to accumulate in the food chain. In addition, “no go” properties were defined. Materials that meet one of the categories defined as “no go” are stopped at the development stage and are not commercialized.
Each of ICL’s segments is currently engaged in the process of assimilating the index into its ongoing operations. Overall product stewardship management is subject to regulation in all ICL areas of activity, and ICL companies closely track regulatory developments in this area.