Celanese Corporation

Celanese Corporation is a global technology leader in the production of differentiated chemistry solutions and specialty materials used in most major industries and consumer applications. With sales almost equally divided between North America, Europe and Asia, the company uses the full breadth of its global chemistry, technology and business expertise to create value for customers and the corporation.

Celanese partners with customers to solve their most critical needs while making a positive impact on its communities and the world. Based in Dallas, Texas, Celanese employs approximately 7,400 employees worldwide and had 2013 net sales of $6.5 billion. Celanese serves customers through operations located primarily in North America, Europe and Asia with twenty-six production facilities and an additional nine strategic affiliate production facilities.

Celanese's highly-diversified product portfolio serves a broad range of end-use applications including paints and coatings, textiles, automotive applications, consumer and medical applications, performance industrial applications, filter media, paper and packaging, chemical additives, construction, consumer and industrial adhesives, and food and beverage applications.

Celanese's products hold leading positions in the industries it serves worldwide and are complemented by a large global production capacity, operating efficiencies, proprietary production technology and competitive cost structures. Many of Celanese's products help reduce energy consumption in other industries.

Sustainability is a core value at Celanese, reflecting the company's belief in the importance of making a positive impact on communities and fellow human beings. Energy usage reduction has been and continues to be a core objective of Celanese operations. The company's products also help its customers achieve their energy cost reduction goals from automotive to many other sectors.

Over the years, Celanese has been recognized for industry leading contributions and achievements such as the American Chemistry Council’s Company of the Year and Responsible Care® Performance Award and Responsible Care Safety Awards for five U.S. facilities.

Celanese partnered with the Better Plants Program by signing a voluntary pledge to reduce energy intensity by 25% over ten years. With a baseline year of 2007, Celanese had until 2017 to reach this goal. The company met this goal in 2013 well ahead of its target date. It followed up by joining the Better Plants Challenge, agreeing to provide additional transparency around its energy performance data and best practices, and taking on a new goal of 15% reduction by 2020 from a 2013 baseline.

Celanese received a 2018 Better Practice Award for developing a sophisticated Energy Assessment Matrix to measure and track the strength and continuous improvement of energy management systems.

Celanese received a 2019 Better Practice Award for implementing the Celanese Energy Community program and engaging and educating 98% of the company workforce on energy reduction.

Celanese received a 2020 Better Practice Award for developing "Energy Sparks" fact sheets covering a wide variety of manufacturing-based energy topics to educate and engage employees - Practice Presentation.

Celanese received a 2021 Better Practice Award for creating a sustainability checklist that is being rolled out for all new capital projects greater than $50,000 across the company.

PORTFOLIO-WIDE LEADERSHIP COMMITMENTS

25% reduction in energy intensity by 2017

15% reduction in energy intensity by 2020

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Verifying Data Quality for Reporting Season

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Celanese Corporation: Upgrading Enterprise-wide Environmental and Sustainability Data Reporting Systems

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Celanese: Targeted Energy Treasure Hunts Engage Employees to Find More Savings

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Celanese Corporation: Sustainability Checklist for Capital Projects

Guidance Other Resources

Celanese Capital Project Sustainability Checklist

Guidance Other Resources

Celanese Capital Project Sustainability Checklist

Webinar

Work Smarter, Not Harder: Creative Project and Process Implementation

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Best of the Betters: 2021 Better Practice Presentations

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Celanese Corporation: Raising Energy Engagement in Plant Operations Teams with “Energy Sparks” Training Tools

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Best of the Betters: 2020 Better Project and Better Practice Presentations

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Best of the Betters Presentation 2020 - Celanese Corporation

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Celanese Corporation: Narrows Site Energy Reduction Project Achieves Significant Energy Savings

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Celanese Corporation: Energy Management Assessment Matrix

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Learning What Works: Energy Data Management

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Learning What Works: Energy Data Management

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From the Manufacturing Floor to the Corner Office: How to Communicate with Management and Plant Personnel

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From the Manufacturing Floor to the Corner Office: How to Communicate with Management and Plant Personnel

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Transforming Manufacturing: Smart Manufacturing and Advanced Data Analysis Drive Energy Savings

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Transforming Manufacturing: Smart Manufacturing and Advanced Data Analysis Drive Energy Savings

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Celanese Corporation: Dashboards Provide Real-time Energy Monitoring

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Celanese Corporation: Large Chemical Plant Improves Energy and Environmental Performance with Boiler Upgrade

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Leadership Commitments

Better Plants Challenge

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Better Plants Challenge

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DOE Program Participation