Presentation of a new chemical product.
JBS Couros dedicates its efforts to analyze and optimize its production processes, generating indicators for stages subject to improvement and aiming at the preparation of strategies to continuously reduce environmental impacts, based on the historical evolution of the concept of sustainability, the development of science on the subject and attentive to consumer demands for more correct actions in the social and environmental spheres.
Thus, JBS Couros decided to work together with the two most significant sectors for the leather production chain in terms of potential environmental impact, the Livestock and Chemical Industry, and align what contributions can be made to establish joint leadership in sustainability.
RTC is a system that collects and analyzes information on environmental parameters related to chemicals, as well as their respective application in recipes for the leather production. The result of these analyses serve as a core criterion for decision making regarding use of the proposed chemical.
Hazardous Substances
Presentation of a new chemical product.
Submission of laboratory results and respective “SC” reports.
RTC Analyses.
Presenting Sustainability Performance Results and Chemical Proposal to Technical Board.
Assessment process in the decision making structure of JBS Couros
RTC: What it is?
It is a comparative analysis tool that collects and analyzes four environmental parameters related to chemical products, as well as their respective application in formulas for the production of leather.
What is not RTC?
RTC is not a system for analyzing chemicals in other manufacturing systems.
RTC does not operate or replace a comprehensive Life Cycle Assessment analysis.
What will the RTC be used for?
It will be used to evaluate the environmental performance of chemicals used in the leather production process and its results will be applied in JBS Couros' decision-making structure regarding the entry of new specialties into the company's formulas.
What types of chemicals does it apply to?
The RTC applies to new chemical specialties.
In its first version, the chemicals analyzed will only be those used in the wet stages of the process:
* Liming
* Tannage
* Retannage
Will chemicals already used in JBS Couros processes be analyzed via RTC?
The RTC will be applied exclusively to new specialty chemicals. JBS Couros uses different methods to assess the environmental performance of its hides.