Evonik

Specialty chemicals, circular raw materials and product-portfolio transformation

Evonik's 2025 Financial and Sustainability Report describes circular raw materials, portfolio sustainability assessments and life-cycle thinking across production, use and recyclability. Evonik's sustainability page reports 48% of sales from Next Generation Solutions and 86% of significant raw-material suppliers examined through Together for Sustainability assessments. Public reporting does not establish one product-level record connecting feedstock origin, formulation, performance, customer use and recovery route.

48% Share of sales from Next Generation Solutions

86% Significant raw-material suppliers examined through TfS assessments

Circularity Raw materials, production, use and recycling lifecycle frame

3 phases Production, use and recyclability focal points

• Specialty chemicals, bio-based inputs, recycled feedstocks, catalysts, solvents, energy and water
• Supplier assessments, product specifications, formulations and customer application data
• Post-use chemicals, packaging and downstream material streams where recovery is feasible

Outputs and residuals to resolve

• Performance materials, additives, active ingredients, amino acids and industrial chemicals
• Process waste, packaging, wastewater and products entering technical or biological cycles
• Product-level circular feedstock, use boundary and end-of-life evidence remain open

First decision: Choose one Evonik product or application. Map raw material origin, formulation, performance requirement, customer use, cycle classification and recovery or biodegradation route.

Evonik reports 48% of sales from Next Generation Solutions in 2025.

Supplier signal

Evonik reports 86% of significant raw-material suppliers examined through TfS assessments.

Lifecycle signal

Evonik names biosurfactants, membrane technologies and catalyst recycling within its circular-economy innovation work.

Evidence boundary

Portfolio measures do not establish one product-level chain of custody and customer qualification.

Decision boundary

Evonik's transition is visible in specialty-chemicals applications, not in a single portfolio percentage. Its 2025 sustainability report names biosurfactants, membrane technologies and catalyst recycling among the innovation lanes behind its circular-economy strategy. The next useful unit is one application where alternative feedstock, function, customer qualification and end-of-life handling are all visible. The public record supports one bounded next move: Choose one Evonik product or application. Map raw material origin, formulation, performance requirement, customer use, cycle classification and recovery or biodegradation route. It does not establish a buyer, commercial approval or supply agreement.

This is a public screening map. It separates company-disclosed flows from open qualification work. It does not convert a destination into a buyer or an announced ambition into operating capacity.

Make portfolio sustainability operational

A portfolio percentage matters when it changes a specific product, feedstock and customer decision.

Next evidence: Select product, raw material, application, performance test and claim.

Connect supplier evidence to circular products

Supplier assessment is a control point for origin, data quality and raw-material substitution.

Next evidence: Select supplier, input, site, assessment, product and improvement.

Classify the real cycle

A chemical can move through a technical or biological cycle, but the use and fate must be explicit.

Next evidence: Select substance, application, use boundary, degradation or recovery route and evidence.

• Sustainability Evonik, official sustainability hub https://www.evonik.com/en/sustainability.html
• Sustainability Report 2025 Evonik, official report PDF https://www.evonik.com/content/dam/evonik/documents/Evonik_Sustainability_Report_2025.pdf.coredownload.pdf
• Circular economy Evonik, official circular-economy page https://www.evonik.com/en/company/circular-economy.html

Source hierarchy: filings and company disclosures first. The brief states what those sources support and leaves the unresolved plant, grade, permit, buyer and mass-balance questions explicit.

Evonik's circularity problem is a portfolio and supply-chain problem. Its 2025 report treats circular economy as a transformation across raw materials, production, use and recyclability, while its current sustainability page reports 48% of sales from Next Generation Solutions. The next useful unit is one specialty chemical where alternative feedstock, function, customer qualification and end-of-life cycle are all visible. The next useful working session starts with: Choose one Evonik product or application. Map raw material origin, formulation, performance requirement, customer use, cycle classification and recovery or biodegradation route.