Suppliers' Sustainability

We are committed to conducting business with the highest ethical standards, and we expect the same of our suppliers. At the same time, we also see opportunities to generate shared value through sustainability.

As we advance on our sustainability journey, we believe partnering with our suppliers will play an important role in our ability to generate significant positive impacts beyond our own operations.

Our Supplier Sustainability Team has worked closely with our Source-to-Pay organization to identify critical suppliers, factoring in aspects such as total spend, single source, and the specific needs of our business operations. Prioritizing among our thousands of suppliers will allow us to focus on high-impact relationships.

In the fall of 2021, we formally engaged a third-party partner to conduct sustainability assessments of our critical suppliers. This platform will enable us to evaluate each supplier using methods meeting the GRI Standards and the principles of the UN Global Compact. We received scorecards for 42 out of 182 critical suppliers identified by the end of December. We will work toward a 100% participation rate among all critical suppliers in the future. This process will give us a holistic view of our supply chain’s environmental and social impacts. With this information, we can take strategic actions to mitigate risk and drive improvements with our business partners.

One of the focus areas for our Supplier Sustainability 2025 roadmap is promoting circularity in our packaging. Our Tuscola, IL, USA plant acted on this initiative by switching to wooden pallets with composite blocks made of chipboard from recycled wood, reducing the need for new lumber in these pallets by approximately 30%.

Likewise, our Cilegon, Indonesia plant recently worked with a local supplier to reclaim 100% of used flexible intermediate bulk containers, making them into plastic pallets and bringing them back for plant use. This closed-loop system reduced pallet disposal costs and eliminated the downstream waste impacts, creating both economic and environmental benefits. Efforts like these have helped us achieve 100% of wooden pallets containing renewable or recycled content and 93% of plastic pallets sourced with recycled or reused materials.

We are excited to announce that we are the first major fumed silica manufacturer to introduce a new multi-wall brown paper bag design for fumed silica. This initiative has been in development for two years and extensive testing has been carried out to ensure the bag performance is maintained. 

A More Sustainable Packaging Design

We are excited to announce that we are the first major fumed silica manufacturer to introduce a new multi-wall brown paper bag design for fumed silica. This initiative has been in development for two years and extensive testing has been carried out to ensure the bag performance is maintained. 

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