{"id":150204,"date":"2024-09-10T07:23:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-10T05:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=150204"},"modified":"2024-09-05T13:19:58","modified_gmt":"2024-09-05T11:19:58","slug":"kose-and-neste-brought-bio-based-materials-into-cosmetics-packaging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/kose-and-neste-brought-bio-based-materials-into-cosmetics-packaging\/","title":{"rendered":"KOS\u00c9 and Neste brought bio-based materials into cosmetics packaging"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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Japanese cosmetics and personal care giant KOS\u00c9 is embarking on a journey towards sustainability, announcing the KOS\u00c9 sustainability plan. One important pillar of it was to reduce the carbon footprint of the company\u2019s products. Collaboration with Neste was chosen as one of the many wheels setting KOS\u00c9\u2019s journey into motion.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Plastics play an important role in the beauty and personal care industry in the form of containers, tubes and packaging. With the lion\u2019s share still being made from fossil resources, plastics offer strong potential for personal care companies to reduce their carbon footprint. When Japanese cosmetics and personal care company KOS\u00c9 introduced its sustainability ambitions in 2020 \u2013 called \u201cCreating Beauty in a Sustainable World\u201d \u2013 more sustainable plastics quickly made it to their agenda.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThe plan summarizes our sustainability initiatives and goals up to 2030,\u201d explains Seiji Kawano<\/strong>, Corporate Strategy Dept. Sustainability Strategy Office \/ General Manager at KOS\u00c9<\/strong>. \u201cOne of them is reducing the environmental impact of our business. This includes working on reducing the environmental impact of the plastic containers we use.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Looking for possibilities to reduce the carbon footprint of their plastic containers, the KOS\u00c9 team came into touch with Neste: Neste\u2019s renewable feedstock,\u00a0Neste RE<\/a>TM<\/sup>, is made from bio-based materials and can be used to replace fossil resources in the manufacturing of plastics. While the quality, performance and durability of the plastics \u2013 and hence the containers \u2013 remain unchanged, the carbon footprint of those made with renewable materials is lower than the footprint of those made from fossil resources. The possibility of maintaining the high quality and performance of the plastics with improved sustainability convinced the KOS\u00c9 team to take a further step.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Beauty becomes sustainable and sustainability is beautiful<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

SEKKISEI CLEAR WELLNESS Overnight Cream is a skin care product from KOS\u00c9. An elegant container not only makes it an eye-catcher, it also preserves characteristics of the cream. The inner part of the container is made of polypropylene (PP), a common plastic type used in various applications. Leveraging the collaboration with Neste and with the help of supply chain partners Itochu Plastics, SK Geo Centric and Yoshida Cosmeworks, KOS\u00c9 made this inner part of the container the first application in the Japanese cosmetics industry to be made with renewable materials applying a mass balancing approach: the amount of renewable materials used at the beginning of the value chain is allocated to a respective amount of the containers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThe SEKKISEI pilot serves as a blueprint for us,\u201d explains Seiji Kawano<\/strong>. \u201cIt contributes to reducing the GHG emissions over the life cycle of the product without compromising on quality or performance. The mass balance approach allows us to start with smaller amounts of renewable content that we can then gradually ramp-up. And that\u2019s exactly what we have in mind: In the future, we plan to expand the use of renewable materials to other products and brands.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Close collaboration to achieve joint targets<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Even if there is no direct business relationship between Neste and KOS\u00c9, the direct exchanges and discussions between both companies support the KOS\u00c9 sustainability plan: While KOS\u00c9 represents the end of the value chain, Neste represents the very beginning. While KOS\u00c9 defines the sustainability needs and targets, Neste defines what\u2019s possible by providing the renewable raw materials that enter the value chain. The direct collaboration thereby allows for coordinated matching of needs and possibilities right from the very beginning of the project.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s crucial for us to understand what exactly is required from the brands,\u201d explains Maria Carcol\u00e9, Head of Brand Owner Management at Neste<\/strong> Renewable Polymers and Chemicals. \u201cThe earlier we do that, the better we can build and support the entire supply chain \u2013 and we can also help companies like KOS\u00c9 get a good understanding of what\u2019s doable and what\u2019s not.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The SEKKISEI case \u2013 it may have been a first, it will for sure not be a last. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Japanese cosmetics and personal care giant KOS\u00c9 is embarking on a journey towards sustainability, announcing the KOS\u00c9 sustainability plan. One important pillar of it was to reduce the carbon footprint of the company\u2019s products. Collaboration with Neste was chosen as one of the many wheels setting KOS\u00c9\u2019s journey into motion. Plastics play an important role […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":150223,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","nova_meta_subtitle":"When Japanese cosmetics and personal care company KOS\u00c9 introduced its sustainability ambitions in 2020 \u2013 called \u201cCreating Beauty in a Sustainable World\u201d, the collaboration with Neste was chosen as one of the many wheels setting KOS\u00c9\u2019s journey into motion","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[5838,5847,7105,13064,5528],"supplier":[24741,11708],"class_list":["post-150204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bio-based","tag-bioeconomy","tag-bioplastics","tag-packaging","tag-personalcare","tag-sustainability","supplier-kose","supplier-neste"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150204"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=150204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}