ExxonMobil Approach to Sustainability
ExxonMobil is committed to creating sustainable solutions that improve quality of life and meet society’s evolving needs in ways that help protect people, the environment, and the communities where we operate. The corporation’s approach is reflected in the “Sustainability and reports” section of our website.
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Delivering economic benefits
Whether it’s through improved performance, increased efficiency, longer life or a reduction in material consumption, our solutions are designed to help deliver economic benefits across the value chain.
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Automotive
- Long oil drain intervals, fuel economy, and robust wear protection
- In-use rolling resistance for long battery range/life
- Lightweighting of components
- Recovery and recycling of Lithium, Cobalt, Nickel and Manganese via solvent extraction processes from used EV batteries
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Packaging
- High performing, Downgauged packaging
- Potentially reduce spoilage
- Reduce product returns due to defective packaging
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Industrial
- Increased durability can help to extend replacement lifecycle
- Effective thermal management can improve energy efficiency
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Agriculture
- Greenhouse films, mulch films, and silo bags that can help provide crop protection
- Improve yield and potentially extend the growing season
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Building and construction
- Geomembranes and liners that can help protect and preserve buildings
- High performance and reliability for transformers
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Consumer products
- Low density, lightweight parts in appliances can lower cost
- Improve efficiency compared to traditionally heavier, higher density parts
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Hygiene and personal care
- Thinner breathable and non-breathable backsheet films
- Excellent mechanical properties in non-wovens.
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Energy
- ExxonMobil provides a broad portfolio of conventional and new energy solutions
- Everything from drilling base oils, to wind turbine lubricants, to methanol to gasoline technology
- Designed to help improve performance or reduce cost
Expanding the plastics life cycle
We support a more circular economy for plastics and help society address the plastic waste challenge by giving end-of-life plastic another life as valuable new products and enabling our customers to accomplish more while using less plastic.
*Certified-circular polymers are virgin quality plastics that are accompanied by an ISCC PLUS “Sustainability Declaration” that matches the mass of the virgin quality plastics that we sell to a corresponding amount of plastic waste that we transformed back into usable raw materials through advanced recycling.
Supporting our customers with innovative solutions
Our competitive advantages of scale, integration, and proprietary technology provide customers with products that can serve a range of applications.
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Featured resources
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Exxtend™ technology for advanced recycling
ExxonMobil is supporting a more circular economy for plastics through Exxtend™ technology for advanced recycling. At the forefront of evolving demand, Exxtend technology is a foundation for certified-circular polymers* that can help our customers advance their sustainability goals.
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Atando Cabos: Creating change in Patagonia
Discarded plastic fishing ropes were polluting the delicate ecosystem of Patagonia. Learn how ExxonMobil worked with Atando Cabos to find a solution. By using ExxonMobil’s Vistamaxx performance polymers to help compatibilize PE and PP, discarded plastic fishing ropes in Patagonia can be turned into high-quality end products.
*Certified-circular polymers are virgin quality plastics that are accompanied by an ISCC PLUS “Sustainability Declaration” that matches the mass of the virgin quality plastics that we sell to a corresponding amount of plastic waste that we transformed back into usable raw materials through advanced recycling.