ISCCplus certification is useful when manufacturers or recyclers want to present a sustainability aspect (CO2 reduction, recycled material) in their products.
This certification thus enables. "Sustainability Claims", (when using sustainable certified raw materials or by using renewable energies in the produced products or secondary raw materials), to claim.

Manufacturers or recyclers who want to market their products as sustainable can map a verified sustainability declaration with the ISCCplus certification:

• higher market value through sustainably certified products or secondary raw materials
• verifiable sustainability aspects of plastic products or plastic recyclates
• Illustration of a CO2 reduction through the use of renewable energies, or substitution of fossil raw materials

The certification process is specified with certain procedural steps starting from the registration of a manufacturer or recycler with ISCC by the Scheme-owner ISCC itself.

Request and verification of certification capability

First of all, a recording of your certification request is necessary. This can be done by a long-distance call, web-meeting or even on-site visit (usually the most reasonable!).
Since the scope of the certification process (i.e. audit preparation, onsite audit duration and follow-up) clearly depends on the complexity of the product / recyclate manufacturing, we need some information from you, such as:

• Type of product / recyclate
• required recoucren of the input material
• Certifications of the input streams
• procedural traceability
• analytical infrastructure (own laboratory, external analysis)
• company structure, (certification of several subsidiaries or subcontracting of single components)

Quotation

We prepare an offer for the desired ISCCplus certification

Registration with ISCC

from now on the steps are given by the ISCC audit scheme
 

Audit planning

When the certification readiness is announced after completion of your ISCC management implementation, an audit date (onsite date) is planned together with our auditor team. It makes sense to let implementation and audit planning converge.

Conduct of the audit

In the certification audit, our auditor(s) compare the ISCC specifications for conformity with the implemented process engineering processes and the relevant records (e.g. mass balance and input certificates). If non-conformities are identified, so-called action plans must be agreed in accordance with ISCC regulations; any necessary corrective measures must be implemented within 40 days.  A detailed presentation of the results is made in a closing meeting.

Initial certification
In addition to the management basics, the suitability of the mass balance system is assessed during initial certification (initial assessment). For this purpose, the organization must be able to correctly allocate certified input materials and determine them at least quarterly (input/output/stock checks).

Re-certification
In the case of a recertification (monitoring assessment), the management basics are evaluated as before, but now the quantities of uncertified or delimited non-certified input and output materials are also verified.

reporting and issuance of the certificate(s)

If the relevant requirements of the ISCC specifications are fulfilled, you will receive a corresponding report and the ISCC PLUS - certificate with a one-year validity period