Sustainability

As a global business, we have a global footprint. So we also have a big responsibility to operate in a way that is genuinely sustainable.

Our innovative dispersions also aim to answer some of the biggest challenges of our time, such as biodegradability and compostability, whilst also delivering the performance characteristics that our clients need.

So it makes sense that, as a business, we embed sustainable best practice into every area of our operations.

Underpinning all this is our simple mantra “do the right thing for the right reasons”. At every touch point in processes we benchmark ourselves against the ISO 14001 framework to measure the impacts our products and processes have on the environment.

But we’re going so much further.

Our goal is to be net zero by 2050. And we can only get there by measuring and evaluating our progress.

We’re already delivering our objectives around the Scope 1 and Scope 2 carbon emissions framework, and we’re now working on Scope 3 which demands considerably more data to calculate the indirect emissions that occur across our supply chain. Not only is this essential for environmental reporting, but it’s now a key component to regulatory compliance.

To achieve net zero, and our wider environmental objectives, we’re now building in further management systems and reporting frameworks.

The first is ISO 50001, which complements the existing ISO 14001 environmental management systems by broadening its scope to the measurement of energy management systems.

This places an even bigger onus on us to measure and demonstrate our commitment to energy efficiency and performance. ISO 50001 will play an important role in providing us with the standards we need to achieve to optimise the energy performance of our operations, from energy supply to the efficiency of our manufacturing equipment and technologies.

Science-based target initiatives(SBTIs) form another key part of our performance framework and provide us with a series of sector-specific objectives to reduce our carbon emissions, measured against science based climate targets. Established in 2015, the SBTI is a collaboration between the CDP, United Nations Global Impact, the World Resources Institute and the World Wide Fund for Nature.

Our performance against our sector-specific SBTIs is externally audited by carbon emissions specialist Carbon Footprint.

We’re also externally audited by ISOQAR whose job it is to ensure that we rigorously adhere to our quality management standards.

Sustainability and the environment are also critical elements within the wider context of quality. Apart from being part of the ECOVADIS environmental rating, we also complete ESG audits to evaluate the impact of our processes on the environment.