Committed to responsible innovation that cares for the environment and its stakeholders, Seppic works to ensure a sustainable supply of palm oil.
Palm fat chains provide a wide range of properties essential to the manufacture of certain biosourced, high-performance and biodegradable ingredients, making this sector an important part of Seppic's CSR strategy.
By joining the Action for Sustainable Derivatives (ASD) collective initiative in 2019, in its first year of existence, Seppic is forging a partnership which, thanks to the SPI (Sustainable Palm Index), to assess the performance of its main suppliers of palm derivatives and their actions in favor of a more virtuous sector. In 2021, Seppic obtained a score of 91/100 for its commitments, procedures and results in favor of the transformation of the palm industry.
ASD brings together 23 members, mostly from the cosmetics industry, whose common goal is to accelerate the transformation of the palm oil industry. Thanks to this collective effort, ASD now covers 10 to 20% of the palm kernel oil oleochemicals market, and has achieved 86% of transparency to mills on the annual purchasing volume of its 23 members.
Since 2010, Seppic has also been a member of the Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), which is working to make the palm industry a sustainable one. By 2021, 98 % of Seppic's palm-derived inputs were RSPO-certified. Mass Balance (RSPO). The 2025 target is to reach 100 % of these inputs.
Jean-Baptiste Dellon, Managing Director of Seppic, comments: "We're proud to be part of this great collective adventure alongside ASD, and to be working with RSPO to transform the palm oil industry. These partnerships are perfectly in line with our committed and well-considered innovation policy. The results of the work carried out over the last two years demonstrate the strength of our joint efforts, and encourage us to continue to pursue this approach.
