WATER STEWARDSHIP

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Protecting a Vital Shared Resource

IMPROVING OUR MANAGEMENT AND STEWARDSHIP OF WATER

Our neighbors and surrounding communities expect us to treat and respect water as a shared resource. Water quality and chemical emissions to water are important topics to our stakeholders based on feedback from Community Advisory Panels (CAPs) at our manufacturing sites. We remain committed to advance responsible growth with a commitment to responsibly steward the water resources we need to produce our products.

Our 2022 Water Highlights

Exceeded the halfway point to our Fluorinated Organic Chemicals (FOC) emissions goal with a 53% reduction in total FOC process emissions to water and air from 2018 baseline
Completed initial operations sustainability review at one site and updated the assessment at a second site
Supported the continued development by university researchers of a regional surface water and ground water hydrology model that will be useful to resource managers, manufacturers, regulators, academics, and the public in water resource decision-making in southeast Georgia

99%+ reduction of air and water process emissions of fluorinated organic chemicals (FOCs)

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Responsibly Manufacturing Sustainable Solutions

Case Studies

Reducing FOCs in The Netherlands

In 2022, Dordrecht Works in the Netherlands completed a project to establish a permanent process water treatment facility designed to reduce more than 99% of targeted FOCs. This facility was based on technology developed over the past two years in a full-scale pilot. Looking forward, we will continue to advance abatement programs to meet our external FOC process emissions reduction commitments. Programs in progress to reduce air and water FOCs will result in a greater than 70% reduction from the 2018 baseline.

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Supplying an Essential Product Responsibly

Our Fayetteville Works site in North Carolina may look to be a large industrial complex, but it’s a critical enabler of the national economy, producing critical monomers for many other fluoropolymers. In fact, Chemours is the only domestic producer of PFA, a fluoropolymer used to manufacture semiconductors and develop advanced electronics. Equally as important as the products produced at Fayetteville Works is how they are produced. Significant investments—exceeding $400 million—have been made at the site to install state-of-the-art emissions control technology and remediation facilities, including designing, building, and installing a thermal oxidizer, which controls process emissions at an average destruction efficiency exceeding 99.99%.

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Assessing Water Improvement Opportunities

In 2022, we updated our Operations Sustainability Review process to emphasize water stewardship by aligning the assessment with an external water stewardship set of best practices. We completed initial baseline assessments at one facility and updated the assessment of a second facility in 2022, bringing the total to over 60% of our planned assessments. We prioritized assessments at our largest and most complex sites. After we complete the initial assessment at a site, we periodically survey the site to monitor its progress toward implementing identified improvements.

An Lemaire

Plant Manager Dordrecht, The Netherlands

Our commitments can be seen in our actions. Since 2018, we have reduced site emissions significantly, achieving a reduction in emissions of HFPO-DA—a GenX-technology processing aid—by more than 99%. Manufacturing our essential products responsibly is a prerequisite for being successful. Further reducing our environmental footprint is on my mind every day. There is not a single day that we do not work on this at Dordrecht Works.