SUSTAINABLE PROCESS INDUSTRY EUROPEAN INDUSTRIAL COMPETTIVENESS TROUGH RESOURCE AND ENERGY EFFICIENCY SPIRE Brokerage event October 22 nd 2013 Project Idea Presentation

2 Solvay €12.4bn NET SALES €12.4bn NET SALES €2.1bn Adjusted REBITDA €2.1bn Adjusted REBITDA €261m R&I spending >100 Collaborative innovation projects 29,100 EMPLOYEES 55 COUNTRIES 29,100 EMPLOYEES 55 COUNTRIES 13 MAJOR R&I CENTERS Major Solvay innovation fields Megatrends driving growth in Chemicals Climate Change Renewable Chemistry Advanced Materials & Formulations Consumer Chemicals Organic Electronics Sustainable Energy Scarce Resources Over 1bn new consumers Health & Well-being Eco-processes Asking more from Chemistry INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS TO ANSWER MEGATRENDS CHALLENGES

Idea: Indicators for cross-sectorial sustainability assessment SPIRE-4 call – KA Build on internal experience of members to define a common set of indicators Consistent with life cycle thinking Simplified in order to be used by non-practioners of LCA Based on a limited number of impacts Usable in the early stages of projects Solvay proposal for Suschem, being currently discussed…

Sustainability Index for Projects (1/2) 4 Quotation of Project vs. Reference through a set of questions For each question, project management team has to quote the new product versus its reference according to the following grid: Questions are written for project management team and do not require any LCA expertise … or the reverse

Sustainability Index for Projects (2/2) 5 5 = X Distribution Matrix of the quotations over the 6 indicators From quotation to comparative positioning on 6 axes

Idea Impact The proposal strongly supports the SPIRE roadmap principles: 1.Life Cycle and Cost thinking, monitoring and steering  consistency with LCA approach 2.Systemic analyses of alternative resource streams  Assessment will induce appropriate questions 3.Identification and cross-sectorial development or transfer of resource and energy efficiency solutions and practices  Assessment will induce relevant connexions 4.A staged approach  From qualitative to quantitative 5.Creating the right skills, knowledge, standards and mechanisms  Can be considered as a 1 st step towards standardization 6

Existing Project Consortium WBCSD*: Life Cycle Metrics for Chemical Products The objective is to ensure the consistent and credible communication of product environmental footprints by the chemical sector The Guidance Principles are: Relevance * Completeness Consistency * Transparency * Accuracy Feasibility * The Partners engaged in the Project are: AKZO: Carmen Alvarado BASF: Anahi Grosse-Sommer DSM: Henk Bosch et Gaelle Nicolle EASTMAN: Jason Pierce EVONIK: Guido Vornholt SABIC: Sreepadaraj Karanam (Sreepad) SOLVAY: Jean-François Viot *WBCSD: World Business Coucil for Sustainable Development 7 * Strong Connexion with SPIRE Project

Looking for partners… 8 Starting from a simplified approach, we would like to partner with other industrial companies / technical centers / institutes in order to: test relevance and robustness of the approach on different types of projects/products refine the environmental indicators potentially enlarge the assessment to social domain All sectors are welcome!

Contact details Guy-Noël SAUVION Eco-Efficiency Evaluations +33 (0) Jean-François VIOT Environmental Evaluations +33 (0)