DyStar Group, the Singapore-based dyestuff and chemical manufacturer, published its 2024-2025 Integrated Sustainability (ESG) Report. The report covers DyStar’s global portfolio, including all production sites, warehouses, offices and laboratories that are either owned or operated by DyStar in over 50 countries for fiscal year 2024.
Despite the evolving economic landscape which has significantly impacted the global chemical and textile manufacturing industries, Xu Yalin, DyStar Group’s managing director and president, said the company “remains committed to driving sustainability and innovation, advancing environmental responsibility, and optimizing our global manufacturing footprint.”
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Part of this commitment is a target to lower the company’s environmental footprint by 30 percent per ton of products by 2025, using 2011 as the baseline year.
This target includes reduction in energy usage, water consumption, raw material utilization, GHG emissions, waste output, and wastewater generation across all DyStar-owned or operated facilities.
The company, which generated $751.59 million in revenue in 2024, successfully achieved its target levels for GHG emissions intensity, water consumption intensity and wastewater production intensity in 2024.
During the period, DyStar achieved a 44 percent reduction in emission intensity through several initiatives ranging from LED lighting upgrades and better equipment insulation to moving high-energy production to more energy-efficient units in other countries.
The company achieved a 58 percent reduction in water intensity, mainly driven by process optimization, increase of recovery of used water and advanced cleaning technologies.
Approximately 2 percent of the company’s total water consumption during the period was reused and steps are being put in place to undertake a water risk assessment in fiscal year 2025 at production sites with water consumption limits.
However, DyStar continues to be challenged by waste production, which increased 61 percent in 2024. The firm said recent operational shifts have led to variations in our metrics, particularly for waste intensity.
“While this is not reflective of our long-term goals, these changes have highlighted key areas for innovation and improvement to be designed and implemented,” DyStar stated.
In 2024, all new suppliers underwent EGS screening according to Dystar’s supply chain policy and all suppliers were accessed for environmental impacts. DyStar’s production plants consumed 70,760 tonnes of raw materials and intermediates in 2024. Renewable materials accounted for 14.47 percent of that consumption.
Disperse, reactive and vat pigment categories, along with the raw materials for indigo, were among DyStar’s most significant purchases. These raw materials accounted for approximately half of DyStar’s total purchases during the year.
The report also details how DyStar is evolving its benchmarking procedures. In 2024, the company conducted a peer benchmarking exercise centered on ESG policies, metrics and practices.
By analyzing the sustainability strategies of peers in the chemical sector, the company said it gained “valuable insights into industry best practices that will contribute to the development of more robust and forward-looking strategies to address existing gaps as DyStar aspires to position itself as a sustainability leader in the chemical industry.”DyStar’s 2024 Sustainability Report Reveals Green Gains and Waste Challenges
