Daily chemical giants take the lead in abandoning petrochemical raw materials

Recently, Unilever announced that it will invest 1 billion euros in a "Clean Future", to promote the complete elimination of fossil fuel-derived chemical components in cleaning and washing products by 2030, and to explore new ways to reduce carbon footprint.

Care and cleaning products were the first to be "sniped"

The global daily chemical giant said that compared with petrochemical products, it will try to find alternative ingredients based on other plants, organisms, seaweed and other marine raw materials and waste materials. At present, the chemical components in the company’s washing and cleaning products account for 46% of the company’s total carbon emissions, so this action is not only the first company in the world to make a similar commitment, but it can also cut existing emissions by nearly five. One part.

This move will have a profound impact on the sustainable development of world-renowned cleaning and washing brands, including OMO (Persil), Sunlight, Cif and Domestos.

What is the impact on domestic suppliers?

Seven out of every 10 households in the world will use at least one Unilever product. As the world's largest manufacturer of fast-moving consumer goods, Unilever purchases more than 200,000 different raw materials from 160,000 suppliers.

According to Unilever’s latest financial report for the first half of the year, clean products have almost maintained double-digit growth in scale in recent years, and they have experienced explosive growth during the global spread of the epidemic. According to the financial report, cleaning brands such as Lifebuoy, the No.1 antibacterial brand of Unilever, have achieved good growth during this special period. The sales of hand sanitizer and disinfection products of the company's multiple brands have increased by about 600 year-on-year. Times.

In China, Unilever has successively launched seven generations of sustainable household cleaning brands and Huamu Planet in recent years. In packaging, they are the first to use recycled plastics as product packaging materials to reduce the burden on the environment. In the formulation, they all use plant-derived surfactants to replace pure petroleum-based ingredients, thereby reducing the burden on the earth caused by over-exploitation of oil and helping to reduce the carbon footprint. In addition, Zhiche, the first disinfectant brand in the Chinese market, is also an "environmental pioneer". The main sterilization ingredients are derived from plants, which are efficient and safe. While meeting consumer health and health needs, they reduce the impact on the environment.

This series of sustainable cleaning brands may be Unilever’s test of China’s “clean” market. The announcement of the complete elimination of fossil fuel-derived chemical components in cleaning and washing products is to publicly state its position and “discard” The road is imperative.

For Chinese raw material suppliers, providing sustainable-source clean daily chemical raw materials is not only to "guarantee orders", but also to cater to the growing demand of consumers for sustainable-source daily chemical products.