Italian distributor Cominder obtains ISCC PLUS certification

Marco Mangili – COMINDER

In the current industrial landscape, simply talking about sustainability is no longer sufficient for the market. For manufacturers and distributors of raw materials, sustainability must be measurable, traceable, and verifiable throughout the entire supply chain.
For this reason, Cominder is pleased to announce that it has obtained ISCC PLUS certification, a key requirement for the commercialization of certified sustainable products. This certification is not merely a label, but an internationally recognized system that directly impacts processes, material management, and supply chain relationships.
ISCC PLUS (International Sustainability and Carbon Certification) is a voluntary certification scheme designed to ensure the sustainability of raw materials across complex supply chains, particularly in the chemical, plastics, and technical materials sectors. Its objective is to ensure that sustainable materials placed on the market are genuinely sustainable.

Why ISCC PLUS is relevant for the materials industry
For companies involved in the formulation of coatings, adhesives, plastics, and composite materials, sustainability must not compromise production continuity or technical reliability.
ISCC PLUS addresses this need by integrating environmental criteria into already established industrial processes.
The certification enables the management of sustainable raw materials without causing operational disruptions, ensuring batch consistency, flow control, and transparency toward customers and partners. In this way, sustainability becomes an integral part of the production process rather than an additional feature.

What ISCC PLUS certification means for Cominder
With the achievement of ISCC PLUS certification, the Italian distributor is authorized to sell certified sustainable chemicals, ensuring that raw material management complies with recognized and verifiable criteria across the entire supply chain.
This involves the adoption of specific procedures for controlling material flows, the segregation or mass balance approach of certified products, and structured documentation management. It is not a superficial change, but an operational adjustment affecting logistics, traceability, and relationships with suppliers and end customers. In a context where attention to sustainable rawmaterials is constantly increasing, certification represents a practical tool for operating in compliance with market demands and regulatory expectations.

Traceability and mass balance: key system elements
One of the core elements of ISCC PLUS is the mass balance approach. This method allows the sustainable share to be allocated along the supply chain whilemaintaining q uantitative and documentary control of input and output flows.
For the materials industry, this means being able to integrate sustainable components into existing processes without duplicating production lines or storage, while ensuring data transparency and reliability, an increasingly relevant aspect for companies operating in global supply chains and regulated markets.

Sustainability as an evolution of the industrial supply chain
The growing focus on the origin and impact of raw materials is reshaping how industry views the supply chain. It is no longer just about procurement, but about responsibility throughout theentire material lifecycle. In this context, the adoption of certified systems such as ISCCPLU S fits into a broader vision concerning the evolution of the materials industry, which is increasingly oriented toward sustainable solutions without compromising performance and reliability. This is closely linked to how the industrial raw materials market is changing and to the role of technical distributors within this scenario.
A certification that becomes part of the process ISCC PLUS is not an endpoint, but an operational tool. For the Italian distributor, it represents a further step in building a more transparent, structured supply chain aligned with the needs of an industry that demands concrete and verifiable sustainability. Working with certified sustainable products means integrating environmental criteria into everyday industrial operations, making processes more transparent and decisions more informed throughout the entire supply chain.
Since 1947, Cominder has been building the future with its partners For more than 70 years, Cominder has operated in the raw materials sector as a distributor of minerals and chemical products, collaborating with leading global industries that produce specialty materials and ensure the highest qualitystandards, with strong attention to environmental aspects.
Customer focus, dynamic and attentive service, reliability, extensive nationwide coverage, flexible and customized logistics services, combined with highly specialized and professional technical consulting, are the company’s key strengths. These enable Cominder to meet the diverse needs of customers across various industrial sectors, including paints and coatings, construction, flooring, plastics and composites, rubber, leather, and hides.

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